Trucking in the Northland

Not having a way to scale out sucks all the way around. If I worked an area like that there would be a 1000# grace weight for tandems and 2000# for gross.....come on, at 106k what is another grand or so. Heck you can have 2000# of snow and ice stick to your rig at any given time.

I'm lucky to have my own scales on the log truck. I can load within 20 pounds of my target. My only issue is my scales read differently depending on time of day. In the morning, no matter what time of year, my scales read 800 light and by the afternoon they read spot on. My first load every day I load to 800 under what the scales should read. If I happen to load large diameter logs I only try and get close. I will either be 500-800 over or 500-800 under if we don't have enough logs to try.

The trucks I weigh at the scales have all had ample opportunity to weigh. There is no less than five scales south of us they can use. Any over the road driver that does not spend the money for a weight slip knowing they are going through scales is a fool.

We also look at your history. If you have not been busted for weight (or anything else) we usually cut a break on your first one.