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luckytwo
Joined: 03 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: Blowing by the scales |
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| Does anyone have any stories of blowing right by the scales. I thought it might be an intersting topic of what some of those exsperiences might have been like and what the end results were. |
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matcat
Joined: 09 Sep 2007
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Location: Sumter, SC
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: Blowing by the scales |
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luckytwo wrote: Does anyone have any stories of blowing right by the scales. I thought it might be an intersting topic of what some of those exsperiences might have been like and what the end results were.
I blew by the one just south of Charlotte one day by accident. It was like 5ish, rush hour traffic was horrible, and I was 2 lanes over from the right. I never saw the signs because of the traffic. I happened to see the PRE-PASS sensor and I was like Ohh crap... I couldn't get over. Then just as I realized I was passing a scale, someone came on the CB and shouted, "Hey Swift, how far you think your gonna get running the scale", I never responded, and just kept on trucking. I looked out my mirrors intensely for the next 14 or so miles it is to the state border, expecting to see them blue lights any second, but they never came. I crossed state lines and just let out a phewww of relief. |
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luckytwo
Joined: 03 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject: blowing by the scales |
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| Bet you were holding your breath the whole time. Wonder if they can get you the next time through ....hope not. What about the cameras as you go through. Would they be able to send a ticket from catching your plates on camera. Probably makes ya want to even go through the closed ones now huh. |
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PhuzzyGnu
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Location: Planet Houston
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Not too long ago I was rolling over the New Waverly scales at the 101 on I-45 north of Houston. I was rolling over, I got the "Return to Interstate" on the billboard and went up through the gears. There was a DOT inspector (not a DPS trooper) on the steps and he waved at me and I wave at him. Then he waved his clipboard and started hopping around all funny. I kept on rolling and by the time I got up to the 105 mile marker a Trooper was in full-tilt pursuit.
He asked why I had run from the inspector and I told him I had the "Return to Interstate" sign and never realized the inspector wanted me to pull in. :twisted:
We had a bit of a, er,"discussion." but he let me go.
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Another time I was getting inspected on I-10 at the 729 eastbound towards Houston and an ol' large car missed the scale and came to a stop about 1/4 mile past the office. He came walking back on foot and apologized for missing it and said the four-wheelers wouldn't let him over, except he wasn't exactly polite and got into it with the trooper.
He got a $500 ticket of something.
-p. |
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Uturn2001
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
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Location: East Central IL between the corn and the beans
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know if it counts as running the scales, but there have been several times I have been by scale house with pre-pass that also have rolling scales on the highway with signs telling you to pull in or keep on going and those two bits of info did not agree.
I just kept on going and never had a problem. |
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