Destroying the truck
 

That is total BS. I have heard of that happening to others. If they are going to search and destroy - I will not consent!!!! If they want to go in the trailer, They have to remove all "metal" items that could scratch the cars. Then they have to sign the paperwork that they were in there. So if any damage claims come up..... Tossing a guy's truck is crap!!!

Who won this poll?

Can anyone elaborate closely on bypassing those Santa Clarita scales..?

Re: Is it legal to go around the scales?
 

There is a Provision in the Books for Evading scales

D&mn right it's legal. Here in Texas the service road (Yankee translation: frontage road) often runs within fifty-feet of the scale house so they know you're doing something wrong. I rarely do it since I'm a good boy and do everything right. :roll: :wink:

I did it once in Virginia when I was a thousand pounds over and had no trailer brakes... in a snow storm... hmm.. best not to get into that with all the goodie-goodies around here. :wink:

yeah and now every county, City, and municipality in Texas has their own version of DOT :P

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.