florida agricultural inspection

That scale at exit 460 is.north of the weigh station, I was south of it headed north

 

There's also the Petro at Exit 368 in Reddick(only other close one in the area). But the moral of the story is don't try to dodge FL scale houses.

 

They always assume I'm hauling beef and they're nearly always right.

 

Florida has odd axle weight rules and you were probably legal,. they have a short kingpin to rear axles ruler, but you can be WAY over 34,000 on a set of axles and still be legal.
I don't know the numbers right now

 

This answers a question I've always had. I never thought they would make it easy to dodge the coops.

I remember trying to get around the one leaving on 95, Google mapped a few ways and found one that I thought avoided an ag station as well. I figured sneak out without a trace. I learned many, many lessons that night...

 

Florida law allows 44k on tandems. No need to go around the scale unless you are over gross. Also, there are ag stations on almost every us and state Highway out of fl. The only way around them is a few county roads. And if any police see you on them they know it's cause you are trying to evade the ag check. Next time just take the big road and stop in ga to weigh.

 

That pilot is new. They tore down the old catfish house to build it and in the process covered up more than half the truck parking with pretty landscaping.

 

I got pulled over on I75 once with pet food.
Made me to break the seal and open the trailer. He briefly checked the paperwork and looked at the load.
When I told him, that the load was inspected from US Agriculture at the port of entry, he was surprised, filled out his report form and sent me on my way. Took 5 minutes.

 

It's tough to get an over axle ticket in FL as long as you're under 80k...but don't exceed the 41' bridge. They randomly get very picky and ticket happy about that.

 

You had 46,000 on your tandems!?!?! Holy crap. You know FL lets you go up to 44k right?