Slowing down at scales

If there's not much distance between the prepass and the exit, I will kill cruise control before I get the signal in case it's red. It's easier on the brake pads, the freight, and the co-driver in the sleeper.

 

What ticks me off is weigh in motion scales stating maintain 30 mph etc and the lineup slows to 10 .. I run near max weight all the time so I try to go over a wim scale at stated speed

 

I think it's a deer in the headlights kind of thing. "Be afraid! Very afraid! They're all out to get us!"

what a crock.

 

It's kind of like when I am cruising along at say 65, and the fearless cowboy super trucker blows by me at 80 ish showing me what a big man he is. Then we come along a trooper sitting on the median and Mr. Cowboy boots-big visor-loud pipes-long gearshift-slanted cb antenna-cut off muscle shirt-guy shows the true size of his manhood when he panics and slams on the brakes, and I pass him right back. lol!!!!

 

In ca in the banning scale I would slowdown a few miles before I got to it. By the time I got to it, enough trucks passed by me where the scale line was backed up into the highway so they had to shut it down. I would just drive by the trucks that all zoomed by me. That scale sucks, it could take up to half an hour to get thru it sometimes

 

When I get a green light I ignore the signs and bypass.

When I get a red light at a closed scale, I bypass it too.

 

If you have pre pass, you always follow the in cab signal, regardless of any road sign messages. That is the agreement pre pass has with the individual states.

 

with hazmat loads in few states your prepass means nothing