I had a pickup in San Marcos and immediately after leaving the shipped I u-turned back to go south on I-35. There is no entrance ramp there, so I was on the frontage road. The scale is right there but there is no access to it from the frontage road.
A trooper saw me go by, got in his car and chased me down. I explained where I just came from (pointed at it, actually, from where he stopped me), and showed him the manifest. He let me go. So you know they are looking.
Another driver from my company left the same place in a 26' box truck once and they motioned him across the median to the scale. No way would I comply with that, box truck or big truck or not.
As an aside, the New Waverly (not Huntsville) scale at the 101 on NB I-45 out of Houston can be bypassed easily via the exit before and US75. There is a tire shop right down the road which makes a handy excuse. I've never done it -never had to, don't care to- but there's the 411 if you want it.
-p.
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Destroying the truck
