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Originally Posted by Larry Heyns
No two scales weigh the same. Some truck stops have two scales. I weighed on one and pulled off to shift some weight. Then, I re-weighed on the adjacent scale. There was 1,000 lbs. difference in gross between the two scales. Percentage wise, that is not much of an error. Having a legal weigh print-out from a certified scale may prove handy at the state scale or in court. It is frustrating when a more accurate scale would have prevented weight shifting. I had to shift weight by dragging cases of beer over the top of the load because the tandems would not slide.
I guess I've never tried that- paying for two tickets from two different scales at the same location. I have a hard time believing a CAT scale is going to be inaccurate, though. Maybe some podunk scale. CAT takes their calibration seriously- as do Flying J and other "certified" scales, I would imagine.