well, yesterday, I loaded at a place that didnt have a scale. I guessed at it based on what the customer said the product weighed, after loading, I went to the nearest truckstop which was 30 miles away and weighed out at 81,880 pounds. my options were 1. go back 30 miles and pump some off in to a rail car which would take a couple hours in 100 degree heat or 2. dodge the scales.. guess which one I chose..

 

WY POE, I 80 EB from UT . . I was intending to go in but somehow missed the entrance . . I got off at the Pilot and hid under my seat until I figured the coast was clear. No pursuit.

The hills of PA, somewhere on I 81 NB . . I saw the sign and honestly mistook it for "Tune to . . for important . . " and I blew (relatively speaking) on by. No pursuit.

SB I 95 leaving Maine . . trucks were backing on the ramp and screaming on the radio not to come in . . a Werner truck had "blown up" on the ramp . . white/grey smoke blowing out of both wheel wells. I have no idea what that was and haven't seen anything like it since. No pursuit.

 

How odd. Not that the funkiness of the arrangement is that surprising, just that they'd put so much emphasis on enforcement as the example presented in this post, that being the case.

 

Anybody that would intentionally go around a scale would molest puppies too...

 

I'm sure you would have gone back and made it legal, but I just didnt have time, those puppies cant wait all day

 

EXACTLY!!!!

 

You are lucky, Maine also does chase you down. There have been several times that I stop at the window where they ask to see logbooks, and have to wait to leave until the trooper runs out of the building and jumps in his car to chase down one of you bypassers.

 

Chicken!

 

We've run over gross a lot over the years. With a custom sleeper and an enclosed car trailer, things can get a bit heavy. We've been pushing 80 with 6 cars and had room for a 7th and that 7th car pays quite a bit straight to my checking account. When you're pulling a tri-axle trailer, you can be over gross and not be over axle. Little piece of trivia for ya.

But we have NEVER intentionally blown by a scale. We may have chosen our routes very carefully and, in some states, just pulled right in and taken our chances with a ticket (some states are very lenient on weight and some have very low overweight fines). But blowing by is a major deal in most states- it all depends on the guy in the scale house (or in the chase car, as the case may be), but you can get it real trouble for that.

 

They really don't have very good warning system. You have to kind of know you're coming up on one and pay attention or you could get caught passing in that left lane and miss it altogether. I kind of doubt the officers are too understanding about it, either (except in GMAN's case, apparently).

I believe that in most states that ticket is failure to obey traffic signals or driving in a manner to avoid being weighed or somesuch.