I was on the freeway yesterday and saw a signed that said “Trucks not given bypass signal must stop at scales”. I saw several trucks in line at the scale and one pulling in, but one driving past without exiting. There also seem to be some overhead scanning devices similar the EZPass lane scanners just before the scales.
I understand why shippers would want to weigh trucks and track their shipments, but why would it be a law that people have to do this? How does it all work with the scanners and the bypass signals and the paperwork? What happens if you don’t stop?
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Trucks are heavy and they pound out the roads they’re also large and need extra safety measures. In order to regulate this, trucks have to comply with certain regulations. There’s a maximum overall weight and a limit of how much each tire can carry. Both so that a tire doesn’t put too much pressure on the road and also so that some goof doesn’t put all the weight on a single axle and suffer a blowout.
Hence the weigh scale. They make sure you’re complying. Once saw some poor trucker with an imbalanced load of lumber. He had to cut the straps and hand carry enough planks from the back to the front to make compliance. Sucks to be him.
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