[tweety bird]

Hundreds of thousands of truckers are on Texas roads with you every day. One of the ways our state helps ensure your safety is by mandating stops at weigh stations.

KXAN Austin News has uncovered a legal loophole, allowing some drivers to skate through under the radar. In trucker lingo, it's called "dodging the scales."

KXAN Story Here

If you have a good connection, watch the video, too. There's a little video camera icon at the top of the article (toward the left).

It's funny- the written story refers to "drivers" and you watch the video and the "drivers" are standing next to their cars at the gas islands :lol: :lol:

[Fredog]

Originally Posted by tweety bird

KXAN Story Here

If you have a good connection, watch the video, too. There's a little video camera icon at the top of the article (toward the left).

It's funny- the written story refers to "drivers" and you watch the video and the "drivers" are standing next to their cars at the gas islands :lol: :lol:

and the one guy says, "we pay for these roads", yea right

[Jumbo]

Dodging the scales? What next are the going to spill the beans that we lie in our log books?

[Darin Younce]

My guess is that there was no new murders, theft or other serious but newsworthy events , so they said "hey what the heck, lets find something to fill in this void ". .

[tweety bird]

Originally Posted by Jumbo

Dodging the scales? What next are the going to spill the beans that we lie in our log books?

lol- or that we speed once in a while. :roll:

[thebaldeagle655]

dodge scales, speed, lie on the logs, what next, running overweight? OH NO! NOT THAT!!

My local news did a story last week on how truckers cause all of California's littering problems by tossing their pee bottles out on the highway :roll:

[thebaldeagle655]

I just poor mine out, while driving down the road with the nice motorcycle officer behind me :twisted:

[Orangetxguy]

Originally Posted by floored

My local news did a story last week on how truckers cause all of California's littering problems by tossing their pee bottles out on the highway :roll:

Well....when are ya gonna quite peein in da bottle there Alice??? :shock: :shock:

[Ratdog]

Originally Posted by floored

My local news did a story last week on how truckers cause all of California's littering problems by tossing their pee bottles out on the highway :roll:

They were complaining on the stations awhile back here. The call them something, bottle bombs, heck I can't remember. It isn't like Ohio cleans the sides of the roads anyway.