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Originally Posted by YerDaddy
Passed too many open scales to count anymore. Some accidentally, some not. The best one was the EB Manchester scale at night. It was darker back in the last century; not so many overhead lights like today.
I was legal, just left the house with a load. Just didn't feel like stopping and just wondering if I could actually get away with what I was about to do. So as I approached, the situation looked do-able. Truck was on the scale blocking officer's view of the highway. I cut out all my lights and just proceeded in the dark past the coop. That was fun! Didn't have to stop on top of Monteagle like you do nowadays either. Sometimes I still blow past that mandatory pull -off. And the one in WV on 68.
Nowadays with all the pre-pass trucks it's so easy if traffic is heavy to just get in the middle of a bunch of pre-passers and fly right on by.
a fellow driver passed that brake check station and it cost him 500 bucks