Stopping at weigh stations for other reasons

Seriously, what are you afraid of? Not like you're hauling a load of drugs or illegal weapons, or ARE you? You guys have some pretty irrational fears going on there, and the guilty are the ones who would have a basis for worry.

 

You do realize that they can do the same thing in truck stops as well?

Besides, if someone you don't know is banging on your door, why are you answering (assuming this is happening during your 10)?

 

You can take delivery on a brand new truck, have the dealer mechanic with 30 years experience and more certifications than you can shake a stick at go over that truck with a fine tooth comb ensuring that it is in perfect working order before you roll out, roll into a scale with less than 10 miles on the odometer, and if the officer inspecting that truck 2 weeks out of the academy WANTS to find something, he will....and what are you going to do about it?

I don't have the money to spare paying ridiculous fines for BS infractions, or paying legal fees trying to prove they are BS in court.

I also don't care to have points assigned to my CSA2010 score for those BS infractions.

Lastly, I don't have the time to spend shut down for BS reasons, either, if he happens to spot my dog, the magazine in my door pouch, and my cell phone and decide I'm "fatigued" based upon the checklist he was given by his superiors. (go ahead...google OOIDA v. Minnesota)

I've never seen the point in rolling up into a bear trap. If they want me, they can come find me out where I'm running...at least then, they are working for it. I'm not in business to make THEIR job easier....especially when so many states view trucks as rolling piggy banks.

 

Ignorance breeds fear, and that's too bad. There's not a department in the nation that allows an officer that's 2 weeks out of the academy to work at a DOT scale. It's a special duty assignment for folks who are already experienced.

In reference to the Minnesota gig, those officers were wrong, and their "prgram' got slammed by the state attorney general.

Sheesh, I'll bet you guys had to check the closet before going to sleep to make sure the boogie man wasn't in there.

 

You have not been in the Minnesota scale much then have you?

It is a training scale and there are students in there daily. They are really pushing the envelope of rules there.

Arkansas will take their "students" out and do inspections as well.

 

I've been to Minnesota and Arkansas more than a "few" times, yes... and I've never had a problem. If you have crap all over your dash, look like a homeless bum, and the truck is dirtier on top than it is on the bottom, you might should worry.

 

Really. Well they may be your enemy, they most certainly are not mine. See I know how many are running around with crap equipment on little sleep, and worse health habits.

In fact I wish the Bears as you call them would do are far better job of removing some of these bottom dwelling super truckers that have an irrational fear of following the #### law!

I will never understand the constant worrying of where an officer is or what they are doing. I could not live in fear of anyone as these people do.

 

My truck was clean.

I was clean and showered.

I was wearing glasses.

I can drive legally with or without.

They wanted to write me up for false documents since my medical card did not show the glasses, nor did my drivers license.

 

With all that said, my suggestion was to hit the scales when they're closed, enjoy a good night's sleep with no lot lizards or crackheads.. or lot lizards who are crackheads... and roll out in the morning. You're forward of the scale when sleeping, so you don't have to go through it to leave.

 

I have no problem going around the scales or changing to routes that do not have them as well.

I have had my fill of the their "safety inspections" the last 2 years.