Overweight

[Tom Warner]

Larry you are a tough fellow to convince that weighing stations in
every state are monitoring for compliance with the Federal Department
of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations
(FMCSR) codes. It applies to ONLY commercial vehicles that are for
hire.........period.

If you are worried about Maryland weigh stations you can read to your
hearts content here and you find absolutely nothing about motorhomes
or any other non commercial vehicle having to utilize these weigh stations.
http://www.sha.state.md.us/businesswiths...eista\
.asp

Then read
this:
http://www.sha.state.md.us/businesswiths...arrie\
rHandbook.pdf

Now if you want to continue to worry about Maryland weigh
stations.guess you can. I chose to drive by them all and have for years.

tom warner
vernon center,ny
1985 PT 40

At 09:38 PM 4/6/2007, you wrote:
>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
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Leroy Eckert
>To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Friday, April 6, 2007 9:00:12 PM
>Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Overweight
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> 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.
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>Leroy Eckert
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>1990 Wb-40'Smoke N Mirrors"
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>In DeFuniak Springs, with the heater on. Crazy-32 tonignt.
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>----- Original Message -----
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> From: Don Bradner
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> To: WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com
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> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 3:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Overweight
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>The problem is that they want to avoid huge amounts of verbiage.
>Three or four lines of large letters, Max.
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>The Federal DOT recommendation is for 3 signs:
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>Weigh Station 1 mile.
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> Weigh Station next exit.
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> Weigh Station ->.
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>A fourth sign, specified "if required by law" says
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>All Trucks
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> Commercial Vehicles
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> Next Right
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>All Trucks
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> Commercial Vehicles
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> Next Right
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>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.
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>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:
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>All Trucks
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> Towed Vehicles
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> Must Exit
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> Next Right
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>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!
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>On 4/6/2007 at 12:47 PM Larry wrote:
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> >For the most part they are all correct... Now what happens when you get a
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> >disgruntled police officer that is new to the job and takes the signage
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> >litterally and then stops you because he thinks you avoided going over the
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> >scales and issues you a ticket, which you apparently can get squashed,
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> >then you have to take the time to do this... As I see it, it is easier to
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> >go over the scales then to take chances that you may be stopped... If
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> >enough people do this then they will have to change the signage to the
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> >appropriate wording...
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>Don Bradner
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> 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
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> Eureka, CA
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