Overweight

[Leroy Eckert]

Yeah, I figure if they want a closer look they can send the DOT car out. Act
dumb, ask for forgiveness later. I do not worry about being overweight, but
over length with the trailer.

Leroy Eckert
1990 WB-40"Smoke N Mirrors"
Niceville, Fl



----- Original Message -----
From: Larry
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Overweight


Leroy,
You just reminded me of when I went on the scales in MD... I pulled up to the
stop light waited for the next message and then it read proceed to the scale...
Now if they did not want me there, then why did they go through the trouble to
have me go through the whole procedure to get on the scale and after weighing
the BB the sign lite up with proceed to I-95... Nothing came over the CB to tell
me not to get on the scale, there was no message to tell me to proceed to I-95
before I went through the weighing process... You would think if I was not to be
there why would the take the time to have me go through the scales???
I do not know... I will in the future I will just avoid going through MD on
I-95...

Sea Ya
Larry
NYC
84 35FCSB

----- Original Message ----
From: Leroy Eckert
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 6, 2007 9:00:12 PM
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Overweight

I just keep on roll'n. Stopped one time at an INS checkpoint for aliens where
a sign stated all commercial vehicles and buses must stop. Had a specific arrow
where the bus should go. The officer looked at me like I was nuts, took the dog,
sniffed the joint and said see ya, don't stop again. So, I keep going now.

Leroy Eckert

1990 Wb-40'Smoke N Mirrors"

In DeFuniak Springs, with the heater on. Crazy-32 tonignt.

----- Original Message -----

From: Don Bradner

To: WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com

Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 3:21 PM

Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Overweight

The problem is that they want to avoid huge amounts of verbiage. Three or four
lines of large letters, Max.

The Federal DOT recommendation is for 3 signs:

Weigh Station 1 mile.

Weigh Station next exit.

Weigh Station ->.

A fourth sign, specified "if required by law" says

All Trucks

Commercial Vehicles

Next Right

or

All Trucks

Commercial Vehicles

must exit

Next Right

In Maryland's case, they don't require all trucks to stop. Just those over
10,000 lbs GVW. So the important thing to them is to get the "over 5T GVW" into
the sign, and they do it at the expense of the Trucks Commercial part. They
don't want the lighter delivery trucks, which have to stop in many states, from
cluttering things up. The non-standard wording, rather than trying to increase
the number of exiting vehicles, is actually designed to decrease them.

Here's a typical from Colorado, just to show that Maryland is not alone in
using wordage that could possibly be construed to include RVs:

All Trucks

Commercial and

Towed Vehicles

Must Exit

Next Right

But guess what? They don't mean me with my Jeep Liberty toad. I refuse to
spend my time, while traveling down the road, trying to figure out what law a
disgruntled new police officer might mis-apply to me - there's got to be
thousands of such very unlikely possibilities. There's enough real laws I have
to concern myself with!

On 4/6/2007 at 12:47 PM Larry wrote:

>Tom,

>For the most part they are all correct... Now what happens when you get a

>disgruntled police officer that is new to the job and takes the signage

>litterally and then stops you because he thinks you avoided going over the

>scales and issues you a ticket, which you apparently can get squashed,

>then you have to take the time to do this... As I see it, it is easier to

>go over the scales then to take chances that you may be stopped... If

>enough people do this then they will have to change the signage to the

>appropriate wording...

Don Bradner

90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"

Eureka, CA

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

<!--

#ygrp-mlmsg {font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;}
#ygrp-mlmsg table {font-size:inherit;font:100%;}
#ygrp-mlmsg select, input, textarea {font:99% arial, helvetica, clean,
sans-serif;}
#ygrp-mlmsg pre, code {font:115% monospace;}
#ygrp-mlmsg * {line-height:1.22em;}
#ygrp-text{
font-family:Georgia;
}
#ygrp-text p{
margin:0 0 1em 0;}
#ygrp-tpmsgs{
font-family:Arial;
clear:both;}
#ygrp-vitnav{
padding-top:10px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:77%;margin:0;}
#ygrp-vitnav a{
padding:0 1px;}
#ygrp-actbar{
clear:both;margin:25px 0;white-space:nowrap;color:#666;text-align:right;}
#ygrp-actbar .left{
float:left;white-space:nowrap;}
.bld{font-weight:bold;}
#ygrp-grft{
font-family:Verdana;font-size:77%;padding:15px 0;}
#ygrp-ft{
font-family:verdana;font-size:77%;border-top:1px solid #666;
padding:5px 0;
}
#ygrp-mlmsg #logo{
padding-bottom:10px;}

#ygrp-vital{
background-color:#e0ecee;margin-bottom:20px;padding:2px 0 8px 8px;}
#ygrp-vital #vithd{

font-size:77%;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;color:#333;text-transform:upp\
ercase;}
#ygrp-vital ul{
padding:0;margin:2px 0;}
#ygrp-vital ul li{
list-style-type:none;clear:both;border:1px solid #e0ecee;
}
#ygrp-vital ul li .ct{

font-weight:bold;color:#ff7900;float:right;width:2em;text-align:right;padding-ri\
ght:.5em;}
#ygrp-vital ul li .cat{
font-weight:bold;}
#ygrp-vital a {
text-decoration:none;}

#ygrp-vital a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;}

#ygrp-sponsor #hd{
color:#999;font-size:77%;}
#ygrp-sponsor #ov{
padding:6px 13px;background-color:#e0ecee;margin-bottom:20px;}
#ygrp-sponsor #ov ul{
padding:0 0 0 8px;margin:0;}
#ygrp-sponsor #ov li{
list-style-type:square;padding:6px 0;font-size:77%;}
#ygrp-sponsor #ov li a{
text-decoration:none;font-size:130%;}
#ygrp-sponsor #nc {
background-color:#eee;margin-bottom:20px;padding:0 8px;}
#ygrp-sponsor .ad{
padding:8px 0;}
#ygrp-sponsor .ad #hd1{

font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;color:#628c2a;font-size:100%;line-height:122%\
;}
#ygrp-sponsor .ad a{
text-decoration:none;}
#ygrp-sponsor .ad a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;}
#ygrp-sponsor .ad p{
margin:0;}
o {font-size:0;}
.MsoNormal {
margin:0 0 0 0;}
#ygrp-text tt{
font-size:120%;}
blockquote{margin:0 0 0 4px;}
.replbq {margin:4;}
-->

__________________________________________________________
Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast
with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut.
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]