What's with all the weigh stations?

Got pulled into every open scale in California,Oregon and Idaho. About 2-3 months ago the company was put on alert status (I guess some drivers have been naughty). Interesting enough the BestPass transmitter has been giving me red lights only in Oregon. The one time it gave me a green light approaching a weigh station was on I-10 in Florida,and prior to that it has NEVER ACTIVATED.
You learn something new everyday..

 

one of the companies I used to work for had awful equipment and a terrible safety score. As a result I got called in to the inspection bays four times in one month (all in California). Two level twos and two level ones. When all was said and done I had seven verbal violations and two written. I quit the following month. If your company doesn’t have the respect for you to care about safety and provide you with decent equipment, it’s time to leave. All those tickets go to the driver, not the company

 

If a company fails to provide you with a truck that can pass your pre trip inspection standards you should start looking for the door.

I worked for a company that had a mail contract and their trucks were garbage. I had just come from a company that had given me a brand new truck (but didn't pay well.) and didn't want to be a prima donna. So I had a few things repaired over the course of the first few weeks and didn't want to rustle feathers at my new employer on my first month. (It should have been my first sign to run away.)

Ironically, this company did have newer, better trucks. It's just the mail contract was where they sent old trucks to die. Run the broken older trucks until the wheels fall off, there's no weigh stations along the route, and nobody will pull over a mail truck.

Well somebody did, and when the officer ran the plates? They were expired. The company had stopped registering the trailers like 4 years ago.

So I quit the next night. They made all kinds of promises, but hadn't done anything. "Just drive it, we'll fix it later,,," NOPE! The truck I was assigned to stayed at the postal depot and wasn't delivered. I let the company deal with the missed delivery.