What’s With Trucks Bypassing Weigh Stations?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by downplay, Jun 30, 2023.

  1. Todd727

    Todd727 Medium Load Member

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    Wow, comparing your words to mine, I think we can all see who is butt hurt. Also, you are the one that is telling him to "live and let live" while at the same time not practicing what you preach.

    Not butt hurt, just laughing.
     
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    bzinger Road Train Member

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    Ya gotta know how to take @Catmando sence of humor Todd, he actually not the ahole he comes off as .
    To help make up for his transgressions I cordially invite you to the Morehouse/ fcc thread where you can watch him insult my preferred beer among his other atrocities.
    Ps ...today the sob insulted my strict catholic upbringing lol.
    Be forwarded tho it's rough crowd there lol .
     
  3. Last Call

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    Don't be telling people I'am not a ahole .. I've worked hard to reach that level
    Nothing piss's me off more .. than getting in the left lane and ease'n into it and then hearing somebody on the radio say .. Hey Cow truck the scale is open what cha doing
     
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    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    You ain't lying... That ought to be a hanging offense.
     
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    JSanborn103 Medium Load Member

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    What about the trucks that pull into the weigh station, get in line for the scale, then pull out of line and drive off? Whats that about?
     
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    Brockrl Bobtail Member

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    Sometimes the company will get them a pass to place in the windshield. My last company had a little box looking prepass, the weigh station will send you by. That's what the sensors over the road coming up to the station are for.
     
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    Ex-Trucker Alex Road Train Member

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    Yeah, well, it's all fun and games until somebody pulls out a gun and plugs someone. I think Ike is playing a dangerous game there....
     
  8. abyliks

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    greenwhich will actually chase, Danbury usually will not, or just go down the ramp and back up the other side. Or stay on 87 to Albany and take a right and miss the whole state
     
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    i never had any issues with Greenwich, i'd say the last time i was down that way would have been like in mid-2005...after that, if they started chasing scale runners, i'll not know of it.

    it was unusual for any of the CT scales to be open (again at the hours i ran), but if they were, and jammed up, i drove on by, just like the VA scales in Dumfries. on I-95

    Danbury there was always a notice in the scalehouse window of the fines for running the scale, but frankly, that scale house was never opened the hours i ran, like the one near Waterbury/Groton.

    my "usual" running hours back then was like 10PM to 4 AM on the I-95 corridor.

    same for Danbury.
     
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