Date:         Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:44:01 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Load vs fuel consumption..
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At 06:20 PM 3/27/2015, David Bjorkman wrote:
>  I believe that all U.S. DOT weigh stations are open to the
> public.  You may have to wait your turn in a line of semi's, but
> you pull up, ask directions if necessary, and get weighed.  You can
> even request a printed slip.  I have been weighed in a few states,
> have had to ask how to do it as there are different ways, and it's
> been no problem.  I'm just glad the Westies are rated as high as they are!

I pulled the Westy into a line of semis once, in
?Pennsylvania?  Asked the trooper at the head of the line could I get
weighed?  My recollection is that he looked a bit startled, and there
may or may not have been a consultation, but he told me to pass
through and then park on the other side.  I having done so, he led me
to a stairway and said "down there."  I went down the stair and found
myself in a concrete tunnel with no visible end.  It must have
crossed under the highway.  I walked, and walked, and fairly abruptly
it opened upward.  And before I could figure what to do, a window
popped open overhead and down came my weigh slip on a string.  I took
it and made another cross-country tunnel hike.  And then I was back
in the real world, blinking in the sunlight.  It was surreal, I think
the oddest thing that's happened on the road.

Yrs,
David