Weigh Stations disappearing?

Nah it' just a where you happen to be thing. Lately I've seen coops in nh,me,vt,ma, open in places where there never open. Hell the place in nh last time I saw open was in the 90's.

 

Not so.

DOT might get you to pay for the very best in pretrip service.

 

I think the DOT moved em all to Virginia.

 

To many container haulers and chicago 1099 trucks would take that to advantage. This is why it’ll never happen

 

Why don't the guys having accidents, work on aiming for a scale house. It has plenty of room and it will keep the truck from any water hazard, 4wheeler or. Motorcycles.????

Just askin

 

To paraphrase an old George Carlin joke, "the next time you go through a scale,,,,"

 

Yesterday went through one in VA I77 North. It was just a booth no employees no cops there nothing.

I guess the way it works is if you dont get the green light you get sent to the back lot and wait there until DOT arrives.

First station I have seen with no employees present

 

THIS. I had a dispatcher once that rode my ### constantly because apparently I was the only driver that wouldn't roll with questionable weights, which is to say that if my gross was over 80k, tandems were over 34k, steer was over 13k, I went back for a rework. Couple times I rolled with the drives a hundred over, but I knew fuel would offset that before too long.

Anyway, I went back for two reworks on a load from Purina Davenport to Fulton, MO. Dispatch was raising hell because there were no scales en route. Well, guess what I saw fifteen minutes down US-61 once I was legal? That's right, Iowa DOT on the side with a rental truck, and they were pulling out the portables.

Couple months later, I arrived at Purina Davenport again to haplessly wander into the aftermath of another truck from our company who had rolled without even scaling the load and been busted on I-280. Another truck from our company had to be dispatched with a pallet jack to offload the excess to get them out of the ticket. Both trucks had to return to the shipper to sort things out, and Purina was furious.

Sealed food-grade load, and the seal had been broken without authorization between origin and destination. The guy that caused all the trouble dropped his trailer and snuck off to leave the other driver with part of THEIR load on the truck without a manifest, so he couldn't go anywhere. Security was so busy trying to get that sorted out with higher-ups, it took me three hours just to get my paperwork, after which I needed two re-works for overage.

Moral of the story -- NEVER get too comfortable thinking you'll be 'close enough', or assume you'll get away with anything, sooner or later, you won't...



As others have said, I wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth when a scale is closed. LOL

 

Couple weeks ago Oregon I84 at the rest areas (both sides) east of the new Loves O.D.O.T. had portables set up in the rest area. Had a digital sign truck a mile before saying WEIGH STATION AHEAD. I got so lucky I could see trucks backed up to the highway and there was another truck sign that said SCALES CLOSED. There was a bunch of vans pick ups and inspectors at both places. Looked like a full blown scale. They had a table set up right at the portables with a digital read out and everything. I got away with one because I was 35000 on the drives.