weigh station thread?

If they do...I hope like hell they're not like the TSA.....

 

could it be that dieselbear doesent want every nut job that gets pulled over to throw his real name around as if they were old friends ? i dont blame him at all...

 

ya but just saying ________ state would matter much , I don't care I just don't see it as big deal

I am on a first name shoot the bull basis with a few it has never kept them from doing there job where I am concerned

 

i just meant here on the forum...

 

Watched my boss lose it when his (then 19yr old) grandson got caught at Superior, WI scale, when he bypassed it coming home from Duluth empty. When the little idiot than lied to the scale master about how he got to her coming south empty with no record of passing loaded. She wrote every ticket she could to him. Wound up costing us a couple grand in fines. He has not driven that truck for us since.

The ones that stand out were expired fire extinguisher, no safety triangles, broken spring retainer clip, no pre-trip inspection book, faulty tail light, no DOT numbers. Finally, the estimated weight was wrong, it was done years before and not updated after we added a boom lift to the truck.

All have since been fixed, but what a hassle trying to get the boss to pay for things he should have legally had on the truck in the first place. Thus the consequences of not being inspected once in a while by the local trooper. In my five years at this place I have never been inspected by the local DOT cop, and have passed him several times with load's that IMO would have been suspect.

 

Im going to write a book on mine! And I know you have better adventures than I do... especially since I never go to weigh stations (prepass keeps green lighting me every single time lately) and generally do my best to be a good driver (theres always someone more worthy of being pulled over by a dieselbear than me!)

 

well we dont know what he looks like either! But honestly what are the chances of being pulled over by him? There's thousands of DOT bears... If you got pulled over and just said "Hey Bill!", you'd have a pretty good chance of having the right name.....honestly...

 

My guess is that DB doesn't put the name of his department out for one reason only. His department probably has a prohibition of their employees "disclosing information," or "making statements."

Read that to mean that the administrators, (read that pencil pushing, paranoid geeks) does not want anyone who works for them, making any kind of public statement that they might not agree with... Many LE agencies have some kind of prohibition about this.

It goes back to having department administrators with big egos and little wee wees.

 

I'm married, that's all the harassment I need in my life

I believe you just restated what I said, however a warning, however, Torrington has been known to send a trooper after a truck claiming he ran the port when he was legally allowed to.

definetly, I made that mistake only twice, the first time because I didn't know any better, the second time because I forgot.

7am to 7pm 7 days a week, except sometimes they are closed on sundays

Alpine and Kemmering are the two best scales in Wyo., laidback, friendly, unless you have an attitude will just give you a smile and send you on your way. Alpine though is the one that threatened to arrest me after my run-in with a Bald Eagle a few years back.

I despise the Billings scales, the only upside to them is they are at least slightly (like comparing a lesser evil with a greater evil) nicer then the old scale was on the reservation.

Um, yeah, there was rumours she was a little "easy", we hauled loads of used steel plate out of the old BP/Amoco oil fields NW of Lusk every day for two months a couple of winter back. Two of us headed up on Friday afternoon so we could get loaded at 6am on Sat. morning, we spent the night in Lusk and decided to hit the saloon up the street. Lo and behold, guess who was in there, she danced with and flirted pretty heavily with my coworker. Next day, as we were heading back from being loaded, she was working the scale, we come walking in, saw her, he got a grin on his face and she went 6 different shades of red and let us go without even looking at our paperwork.

Don't ever get on Monument's bad side, you'll rue the day. Back in the winter on '04, we had a new driver involved in a fatal accident. Seven months later, I was picking up a dropped trailer in the town of Palmer Park (NW of the scale), my directions told me to get off at top of the hill, then follow the backroad into town. Well, they were paving I-25 and this trooper was sitting on the NB on-ramp. He saw me exit the SB ramp, make the right and head towards Palmer Lake. He chased me down and wanted to know what I was doing, I showed him my map and delivery instructions (I was bobtail), he made me turn back and go to the scale. He followed me back to the highway. When I hit the scale, the overnight inspector read me the riot act, then when he saw my company name, he remembered the fatal accident one of our drivers was in, then he read me the riot act again, then cited me for avoiding the scale. He almost lost his job over it, as we called the state and raised hell about the crap he pulled on me.