I've been thinking about this lately, it's never happened to me but I've heard of it many times, usually when a officer feels the driver is taking roads to avoid a scale.
Guys claim they get pulled over then the dot tells them to follow them to the nearest scale to weigh them.
Now I cannot find anything that says you need to comply with such a ridiculous request. Honestly, if it were me... I would tell them to fly a kite! Bring the portables to me if you want to weigh me. I'm not one of those guys who hates the dot, I've never had issue with them and only ever gotten 1 ticket which was my fault. I am always nice to them and comply with any requests they have..... but that's only because they aren't asking me to burn my diesel to drive somewhere so they can look for a reason to cost me more money.
I've seen it written to comply with reasonable requests but to me that is not reasonable.
Does anyone have any knowledge of this? Or experienced it? I know it's probably the same old argument about "if you've got nothing to hide" but as I said...... this is just curiousity. I know I've heard guys complain about helping the dot during inspections. Heard of one guy who told the cop to turn the #### signal lights on himself if he wanted to inspect them..... he said he regretted that decision shortly after when he was put out of service and $3000 dollars broker.
Can the dot force you to a scale?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by dustinbrock, Apr 29, 2017.
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