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Cambridge's scale house on 70 doesn't bother me to much ..but the one in Ohio i hate is the one on 75s before Cinnciatti...*%#@%$
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warsaw....
The reason I have a blown gasket with the Cambridge scalehouse is because of the low down behavior they did on March 2nd of '05.
Many the Michigan trucks were on an extendtion with their IFTA stickers. The state was unable to produce enough that year for some reason. They were due to expire March 1, 2005. Well...to give them some credit...my boss at the time was not the sharpest tool in the shed...and a lousy O/O businessman. (hard worker...just a lousy boss)
I left on a long extended route...and knew nothing of the IFTA sticker about to expire. I was new to the truck.
Anyway...my boss calls me, and tells me the sticker extendtion is about to expire, and I gave him a location up ahead on my route, where I could receive a FedEx package with the new stickers. That was 6pm at a Pilot in Missouri on Hwy 70. I had to be somewhere east of Cambridge...I don't remember...probably Philly by the next day...and I beat cheeks.
I received the new IFTA stickers...but was in the middle of a raging horrible snow storm that followed me all the way east. Temps were below freezing....and it even says on the back of the sticker to not apply them below such and such temp. AND it was blowing snow sideways...so I figured...I had them in hand...that should be good enough...considering conditions I was in.
I'm pulling through the scalehouse, noticing an unusual number of badgekissers inside, with an unusual number of Trucks parked behind the shack. Several were intently looking at the sides of all MICHIGAN trucks. I was one of three guys inside the office with the very same issue...failure to display decals $105.00 fine to be paid on the spot. Mind you it is still a raging snow storm....and I have my FedEx and decals in hand. Mattered not. While I'm standing there...you can hear the glee of these dickweeds exclaim as "there's another one..." "driver pull around back and come inside with your registration and log book."
On top of this...the officer at the counter is giving me a very disrespectful and condencending attitude. I square off with him...glaring deep into his eyes like I'm about to rip his gizzard out through his chicken neck. He further throws his dickhead behavior at me...like I'm suppose to be afraid of him and back down. Hell NO....I start to make him uneasy with my command of the situation, pointing out how HE is the one out of line. He tells me to take my attitude outside. I remember telling him something like to take his badge off and go out the door first. Now we have the attendtion of the whole room...and this guy shrinks right before my eyes. His CO looks over from his chair...and see's someone finally chopped this prique down to size.
His demeanor within minutes changes to cheerful....yeah...you lump of sheit....I wanted some gizzard! I paid the stinking fine with protest...but as usual in a proffessional manner. I never once disrespected anyone...but also was not about to be disrespected over a lousy business transaction. (these laws are not cut in stone..they are at the discretion of the officer...and in my case this was proof of a scamass unproffessional behavior on the part of the Ohio DOT)
Insult to injury...my boss would not reimburse that $105 to me. So...he too lost a good driver. I hired on to the Company I'm with now.
Which State's scales/ DOT treat Drivers the Worst?
