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O.T. weigh station equipment

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Chris Jones

03-27-2006 13:03:28




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I was driving up I85 from NC to VA yesterday and I got to wondering what those things are that are hung over the traffic lanes as you approach weigh stations. This is over the interstate lanes not on the weigh station exit lanes.

First "thing" I encountered was a box hung over the right most traffic lane and the right most traffic lane also had a steel plate across it under the box. So, something was under you as as you went under the box. Next were two more boxes this time hung between the 2 travel lanes and nothing under them. Actually I"m thinking now these last 2 were after the weigh station but I honestly don"t remember.

Sizes are hard to judge when your wizing under but they were traffic light size except they hung like a light laying on it"s back. The first one wide ways across the lane and the latter two wide way aligned with the lanes. I"m pretty sure they weren"t cameras.

I"m hoping someone will know what I"m talking about and can enlighten me.

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the tractor vet

03-27-2006 15:20:41




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 Re: O.T. weigh station equipment in reply to Chris Jones, 03-27-2006 13:03:28  
The thing hanging over the road on the pole is a pre pass transceiver that read data from the truck and sends a signal to the dash unit to tell the driver that he can bypass the scales or that he has to go in , the plate in the road is a weigh on the fly scale that alerts the weigh station that wooooo that next trck is over and then they can real check the weight of the truck , now in some locations they have them scales out in the middel of nowhere and it send a signal back to the aprtol post or a weigh station that hey we got a truck going down this road heavy and if ya got a unit close ya just may want to stop it and chek it out . now sometimes they also have a hidden camra that takes a perttu color picture and also showes the plat so if you are tryen to sneak around scales these days ya had best know where they all are as big brother is watchen ya , most drivers today do not apy attenshion to what is going on around him .

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