I love my "Prepass"..... 8) 8) 8)

Besides, I'm essentially too unmotivated to actually try to go around a scale. Besides...if you run into a DOT guy, and even its not illegal to go around a scale, its highly probable that you will spend a while settin' and chewing the fat with him....and then he'll weigh you and give you a Level 1, or just mess with you... Not worth it to me.

 

I agree with Chuck about the poker face. Everytime I roll thru a scale I have sunglasses and a hat on in the daytime, only a hat at night. My eyes and the direction of my head are strait forward. I have been pulled in 3 times in the 1 1/2 years I have driven trucks and never been cited. Just greet and treat the dot man with respect, and if your logs in order and your truck is pre-tripped you are golden.

 

This is hard to believe, but I agree 100% with Fozzy, hope its not a sign of the apocalypse

 

I agree. Even when they do bring you over for an inspection or stop you for a ticket and you know you are not totaly legal, keeping cool with the dot can help you out and help things go smoother. I heard a driver on the cb on time say that he was speeding with no seat belt and was pulled over. He knew that he was caught and just started letting the officer have it as soon as he walked up. The officer got red if the face and told the driver "well I usually don't give drivers too much trouble, and all I was going to do was give you a ticket for your seatbelt and let you go, but now, you are getting a ticket for everything!". The driver said now that he wished he had just kept his mouth shut.

 

I sometimes run around the one on 95 in
Maine on the way back from poland spring. Its closed alot, but the reason I run it is because there is really no where up there to scale the load after 5 pm. A few times up by the scale on 95 in ct I just park on the side of the road and when the sign goes to closed then I go past. It fills up really quick and I never had a problem doing it. Some others do it too. :wink:

 

I run mostly at night and very seldom ever see a scale house open.... maybe someday in the normal traffic I will try what I seen alot in the past on scales without a prepass site is just roll on by while their busy witth a line of trucks at the window..... I ran by one that was opened and I stopped waiting for them to get me and nobody showed up so I rolled...

 

I had little printing and drawing error in my log book at Windsor. She gave 72 hrs out of service. I feel it is ridiculous.
Can we do something about it?

 

"We" can wait the 72 hours, get a sharper pencil and don't make the same "mistake" again.