Trucks not stopping to weigh in

I can't even remember the last time I pulled into a scale. The only ones we don't get a green light are usually EB 40 NM so they can run the numbers and the coop on EB 70 coming into Indiana. I'm always asleep for those.

Hell, when I was local running Cajon 2-4 times a day I never got pulled in once during the 4 months I did it.

 

I hit at least two scales per night shift. Always the same ones. My record, when all the coops on my route were open, was 5 scales in a 10 hour return shift. Empty or loaded, in I go.

SL

 

They always pull me in, loaded or empty. Usually its wb loaded and eb empty. Flatbed too. Last year i ran a daycab with a maxlite trailer, 26,300 empty with full tanks of full, and would not even get the bypass lane in the coop. Sometimes id get the go light before even stopping on the scale. Was nice to haul 53k+ and still be good. Well and home everynight.

 

Sometimes it is the name of the carrier that gets you brought in.

Mikeeee

 

I didn't know about this prepass stuff either.. but then again, we are strongly urged to avoid scales at all costs.. so pretty much all of the places I go, I never even pass one.. DOT isn't to friendly to our nasty dump trailers.. or to scrap haulers in general.

 

Michigan has that sign.

 

not pointing the finger at you Xfee, but...I would be scared to death to drive a rig and work for a company that purposely avoids the scales...those kind of vehicles can be a danger to yourselves and to the general public...it's no wonder the DOT likes to eat them up like candy.

 

you say that but you have know idea what its like to be a scrap hauler. i get loaded with crushed cars and i have no idea how much i weigh. sometimes its 60k, sometimes its 90k. most junk yards where we get loaded dont have scales. if you dont know how much you weigh, would you wanna have to pull into a weight station and find out your 2-10k over?
no, you wanna get that #### where its gotta go and off the truck asap.