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Moving trucks and weigh stations

Chaotic42

Chaotic42

Lifer
I picked up my CD-less 16' moving truck with car carrier today. The guy at Penske said that I may have to stop at weigh stations in some states. Has anyone encountered this? Is there any quick place to look this stuff up? What would happen to me if I don't stop?
 
the paperwork i had with my Penske truck (20 ft with 2 wheel car dolly) said i had to, but i didn't read that until after i passed some

nobody came after me, but i guess i was supposed to stop <shrugs>

i was driving upstate NY to Atlanta GA, garden state pkwy, NJ turnpike, I-95, I-85
 
I had to stop at each open one when I moved to anther state last April.

They have a light system that will almost always wave you on, you just pull off into the weight station area and follow the lights that apply to you and since they never wanna stop moving rental trucks they just direct you right on out onto the highway again.

The whole time you're still moving at a pretty good speed so it's really not even much of a waste of time.

 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
You could get a ticket if they send someone after you.
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Which is unlikely.
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I have personal experience with this. So as usual, you are full of ******.
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The odds are it is highly unlikely that they will send anyone out after a rental moving truck.
 
I helped my buddy move this summer and he had like a 26' truck. We drove right by a weigh station with CHP sitting out front and didnt stop. No one came after us.
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
I had to stop at each open one when I moved to anther state last April.

They have a light system that will almost always wave you on, you just pull off into the weight station area and follow the lights that apply to you and since they never wanna stop moving rental trucks they just direct you right on out onto the highway again.

The whole time you're still moving at a pretty good speed so it's really not even much of a waste of time.
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BINGO!

I worked 25 years in the interstate trucking industry. One of the better posts so far.
Best to you on the move back to Miss.

 
Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
Originally posted by: lokiju
I had to stop at each open one when I moved to anther state last April.

They have a light system that will almost always wave you on, you just pull off into the weight station area and follow the lights that apply to you and since they never wanna stop moving rental trucks they just direct you right on out onto the highway again.

The whole time you're still moving at a pretty good speed so it's really not even much of a waste of time.
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BINGO!

I worked 25 years in the interstate trucking industry. One of the better posts so far.
Best to you on the move back to Miss.
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Thanks.

Hopefully it's my last move for a while. 25 times is too many. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I helped my buddy move this summer and he had like a 26' truck. We drove right by a weigh station with CHP sitting out front and didnt stop. No one came after us.
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Well, if it's going to be as easy as everyone says, there's no reason not to stop. I know you don't have to stop in MS and in NY. I'm going through too many states. I might not stop in MD since the state is so damned thin.
 
Yay I bought a portable CD player and cigarette lighter power thing. My 50 hours will be filled with music!

That makes my day.
 
Originally posted by: FilmCamera
You're going to smoke in a rental?
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I think he was referring to a power adapter for his portable CD player that'll plug into the cigarette lighter plug.
 
The weigh station regulations vary by state. Your '16 truck will have a GVWR, or Gross Vehicle Weight Rating. It will be posted on the front lower side of the box or on the door itself.
It may only be a 14,000 GVWR truck, and you would not stop at a Washington scale in my example. The signs preceding the scale state that "all vehicles with a GVWR of 16,000 or more stop".
If you are curious, you can get the gvwr info and the state info and plan accordingly.
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
Originally posted by: FilmCamera
You're going to smoke in a rental?
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I think he was referring to a power adapter for his portable CD player that'll plug into the cigarette lighter plug.
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Oh yeah..."power thing" lol I didn't even see that.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
are you there yet?
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Yeah, I got in last night. I left at 5pm EST on Sunday, Got here at 3pm EST on Monday. Then I signed my lease, took a 45 minute nap, unloaded everything, went to Walmart, slept, woke up at 8, got the internet hooked up, and now it's 917 and I'm about to leave again.

Fun, fun, fun.
 
Originally posted by: skyking
hey, glad you got that part done. grab some free wifi on the way home and tell us how it's going🙂
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Well I'm at my new home now. I'm waiting for my phone to charge so I can call my cable company, then I'm off to NY. When I get up there, my roommate *should* have internet access, so if anything interesting happens on the trip (God forbid), I can post the gory details.

I will say this, though: Alabama drivers are the best of the states I went through and New Jersey drivers are the worst. Tennessee had the best roads and Alabama had the worst.

It took me so long to get out of Virginia that I thought I was going to scream.
 
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