Hello, guys. In this particular module, we will come to understand what is the primary function of a weigh station and what are the job duties of a DOT officer. This video will break down the procedure that the truck goes through from the time it is on the highway to the time it passes through the weigh station. Pay careful attention. It's a long video, but it's very informative. This way in motion scale at Wildwood was built in nineteen ninety two. The scales that were before here were manned by troopers. There was just one scale house. It was on the southbound side. And they were, from what I understand, they were not open twenty four hours like we are now. I mean, we that we open twenty four hours a day, seven days a week since nineteen ninety two. Prior to that, I think they only manned them during the day. The amount of overweight vehicles that were coming through here was astronomical. We were handwriting cases at the time and I was working the four midnight shift like I am now. Citations come in a book of twenty five. We would write twenty five a night per person. There was so much overweight trucks running down this road after this scale house being closed for so many years, there was no regulation on the weight. They decided one day that the truck traffic was increasing so fast that they needed to do something about it. So they spent years developing what kind of scale house they wanted to put in here because when they started working numbers, they had the people out here working actual truck numbers that were running down this road and they knew that they needed a type of scale that could weigh four thousand trucks a day because back in the early nineties, three to four thousand was an average day. We can weigh as many as six or seven thousand trucks a day now just going north. It used to be two lane when I first started out here in the early nineties. And the, the ruts in the slow lane were so deep. And I was, I was telling you, I was just driving a small pickup truck back in them days. And you didn't really notice it. It was bad, but you didn't notice it until it rained. And when those ruts filled up with water, it, they were very difficult to maneuver a car, a big truck. You probably do. All right. But a little car, It would take you right out of the road. Anything on the road is going to create damage to it. It's going to break it down. When we say create damage to a road, we're not talking about dragging something behind your car, your truck, you know, tearing up the asphalt. We're talking about any weight on a surface is going to create wear and tear. If you have the Florida super, super hot summers, that asphalt gets a hundred and fifty degrees. You got eighty thousand pound trucks running across it. It's going to create a lot of damage to the road. And the majority of the damage to the road are done by trucks. And that's simply because of their weight. Simply because of their weight. But all vehicles create damage to an extent. The weigh stations are a deterrent. We're here to keep the trucks in compliance with the weight standards the state allows. They stay within those standards of the weight. The twenty-two thousand single axle for Florida, forty-four in a tandem. Eighty thousand pounds if you're fifty one foot or longer, and that's going to keep our roads are still going to break down. Yes, but they're not going to break down at that faster rate to where they need to be repaired in just a short number of years. Our scales presently are seventy six feet long, so we can weigh some awful long trucks. They come in three sections. We can weigh an ungodly amount of weight. I've had vehicles in here over three hundred thousand pounds. But they are platforms, so we can separate axles. So when you pull up, we can separate your steering, your drives, and your rear tandem. The guys that are real long and they have sometimes eight, nine, ten, eleven axles, they like coming into these type of scales because we can weigh them, number one, accurately. We know what we're doing here. We're not a Catscale. We've got a lot of drivers in here that would get weighed on a Catscale and they'll drop their last axle off and they'll think they're okay. And they come in here with a Catscale ticket and they're fifteen thousand pounds lighter than we got them on. Okay, what they're going to do is they're going to enter the on-ramp. They're going to see a sign that says maintain forty-five miles an hour and you want to maintain your forty-five miles an hour. If there's one thing that will plug the system up quick is dropping your speed. Do not slow down or speed up because it will bring you in for either one of those two. those parameters on the speed sensor are set low and high. You'll see these two little white spots right here. Once you cross that, way in motion scale, by the time your front axle hitting that scale and your last rear axle hitting that scale. No one's immune to hair fall. My hair gets its daily dose of provitamin from Pantene. Formula with provitamin B-five strengthens hair and helps build hair fall immunity for ten times less hair fall. Pantene. We know everything about you. It will tell us your total length, distance between your axles, the weight of each axle, how long you are, how wide you are, how tall you are. The only thing we don't know is your first name. We know everything about you before you even come in here. Now, if all that is good, if all those dimensions are correct and all those weights are correct, then that system is just going to guide you right through the skate house. You're going to be gone. You'll shoot all the way out. right past the scale here, and right back out on the interstate. So you'll drop down to forty-five miles an hour for about approximately twenty seconds. That's what it takes you to run through the scale house, about a mile and a half. If you do set off one of the predetermined weights in the computer, the computer has different weights. It'll bring you in at, say example, it might be set at seventy-six thousand pounds, so anything over seventy-six thousand will come in, and when it brings you in, it'll slide you down this lane here, And then you'll get to a point here, and it'll direct you to either scale one or scale two. And you just follow it onto the scale. Make sure you make a complete stop prior to coming up on a scale. And then pull up on a scale. wait for the inspector to give you a green light. If you don't get a green light in a reasonable amount of time, please don't beep your horn. Could be something wrong with the weights. Could be, we get a lot of fuel trucks in here and their weight is constantly shifting and we can't get, we don't know what they weigh until they lock in. So depending on what you're hauling, just wait for the green light. Once you get the green light, you're free to go. It's very important to maintain that forty-five miles an hour and a hundred foot intervals If you're not maintaining the hundred foot intervals, how do you know you're reading your arrow and not that guy in front of you? The virtual dimension monitor is talking to the way in motion monitor because it's giving you these dimensions When the computer directs the vehicle into the scales because of a violation of either weight or dimension, then this information is transferred to that computer and all that just like that. It actually measures your length, height, and width using lasers. Every vehicle that comes in is on there. If we click on the picture of the vehicle, for instance, there's one in the center far left that's a car hauler. We can determine exactly where that vehicle's over height. So when we go out there with our manual over height stick, we know exactly where we have to go. We don't have to just sit there and try to eyeball which car is the highest one. The arrows are telling you where the high points are at or the wide points or where it's too long. I had a case in the middle of the night, ten o'clock last week, The guy was hauling palm trees. Now, looking out this window, and it's very dark out. You can't see a lot, though I depend on my monitors to see. And I saw my monitor told me that he was nine, nine and a half foot wide. I couldn't see that from in here when I went out. And I looked at one side down his truck. He had a root ball sticking out that far. He was not legal to be on the road after dark. So here it is, ten o'clock at night. So that's the reason that we shut him down. Of course, we have to issue a citation for it. And then that's going to a whole new different realm. It's all about safety. It's all about if you are over dimension. You've got to have the required safety stuff on the vehicle, you know, to tell everybody out there because we're, we're protecting the motoring public as funny as it may sound and kind of corny. That's what we're doing, you know? The DOT reader is a system that will scan each and every DOT number. In a matter of seconds, it will look to see if that DOT number appears on what we call a hot list. A hot list is a list of DOT numbers that have unpaid penalties owed to the state of Florida for over thirty days. The procedure is to pull the vehicle in the parking lot. That's our policy. It's not statute. It's policy that we tell the driver that You know, he has outstanding penalties. We'll give him a paper over here that actually lists the DOT numbers, the citation numbers, the dollar amounts, the dates were issued. And we'll give that to the driver and tell him, call the company, and they can pay those fines. When they pay those fines, we'll confirm that they're paid, and then we'll release the vehicle. Okay, so if we want to talk about pre-pass, it's a system where you pay a monthly fee to bypass the scale. Now, the whole intent of that system is to alleviate some of the heavy, heavy traffic that we have. I said we can weigh up to seven thousand trucks a day. When we have one of those days, this scale house gets plugged up and it gets plugged up quick. You have a little transponder in your window and it shows a green light or a red light. So you run under that little reader a mile down before the it's just before the open sign. It gives you a green light. It tells you you're okay. You can go right down the interstate. Don't come in. It gives you a red light. You have to come in. So there's a lot of trucks that buy it, and the system is good if it's used correctly. If you're a mothball hauler, a cotton ball hauler, you don't haul any weight. Styrofoam, we see it all the time. Pallets, you know, whatever you might have that you just never get overweight, that's the system you need to be on because – You'll never have to go into a scale house. It does have a ten percent pull in rate. So ten percent of the time you will get pulled in. But that's the system was designed for light trucks. Unfortunately, a lot of the vehicles that tend to run heavy also buy in the pre-pass. So here this vehicle now, this one just came in. He's overweight. It's weighing him at seventy nine thousand seven hundred pounds. He's going to come in. Here he is right here. He went to the swim sort split right here. He didn't get the bypass lane because he's heavy. So he's got to come in. So he's going to come in. One of these lights are going to light up here. Here he comes. Even in a fog, you can watch these trucks come down because there he is right there. You can see him out there on the lane coming in. And the computer directed him to scale number two. So he's going to come up right here and he's going to pull up right here and come up on the scale. This screen tells us a lot of stuff here. This number right here, twenty eight fifty. That's that's the twenty eight. That's two thousand eight hundred fiftieth truck that came in today. And here's the time the class nine vehicle. Speed was thirty four miles an hour. His gross weight, seventy nine thousand seven hundred pounds. We have a U.S. DOT number reader down there, and evidently it didn't read his DOT numbers. His length, fifty nine six with his eight one height, eleven foot. And he came in because he was gross overweight. Now, remember, I told you about the certain parameters in the computer. where these vehicles will come in at a certain weight. I'm going to say seventy six thousand pounds. So anything over seventy six thousand pounds, if he hits that number, he's going to come in. So this vehicle had to come in because he the whim weighed him at seventy nine thousand seven hundred pounds. His actual weight is seventy nine thousand seven hundred and sixty pounds. Now, that's pretty doggone close. Here's his steer axle weight. He can do he can do twenty two on a steer. Forty four on a tandem and he's thirty three nine sixty and thirty three nine hundred. So his weights are perfect axles. Gross weights under eighty thousand. He's fifty one point seven feet long so he can haul that weight. His bridge weights are good. First three axles, seventeen feet, forty five thousand. He's good to go. And thirty nine foot interbridge, sixty seven thousand. I know that thirty nine foot interbridge he can do sixty eight thousand. So this guy is knows what he's doing. He's got it all right where he needs to be. And all I'm going to do here is push that little exit button, give him a green light. Discover real tough with Ford Ranger XLT. but let's say we've got a ten axle or six axle truck. I right click accumulate axles. This little box is gonna show up. So I'm gonna click on his steers. I'm gonna click on his drivers. I'm gonna click on his rear tandem. It's recording the weights up here exactly like you see them here. Now I'm gonna tell the driver I'm going to tell the driver to please pull up and put your third, fourth, and fifth sets of axles on scale of one, two, and three. Normally, I've got a partner in here. One of us will go outside and direct the driver to put those three axles on those platforms again. So let's say that this is axle number four. I'm going to click that one again, and this is the next set of axles. I'll click that one again, and that's the next set. So there's all your sets of axles. He's got six sets of axles. And we just recorded every one of the weights. And all we would do right here tells you that total weight would come to one fifty nine one hundred. We just print a ticket. Bam. The permit office, when they issue that permit, they only give them a certain amount of weight per axle. So. You have to break it down. It might tell you he can do forty four on a tandem. Maybe he can do fifty on a tandem. Maybe he can do sixty, whatever. But you take those weights and look at his permit. Make sure you can do all that. If he can do all that, the weight issue and he's and the permit says that he must have eleven sets of axles, whatever. He's in compliance. That's all good. Now we got the length aspect. That's the dimension part. So now now we're thinking, OK, how long is it? We'll go out there. And depending on what the permit says and what we have in our hand as far as our weights and measures, we'll determine whether we need to measure it. Now, based on looking at his permit, And looking at our weight slips, that's going to tell us whether we need to do more work, whether we need to, you know, maybe measure axle spacings or maybe measure total external bridge length. Or maybe we need to, maybe his permit's only for ten foot wide and we think he's twelve foot wide and we might have to measure his width. Once we get out there and we start looking, then we'll find out. We're not looking for a violation. I want to get this straight. I suppose you have people out here in these positions that do that. When I go out there, I'm not looking for a violation. I'm looking at whether the guy is legal, whether his permit, and sometimes it's a permit office mistake. I can't count the number of times we've called a permit office and said, hey, look, this guy says that he ordered a permit for fifteen dollars. And you only gave a permit for fourteen. Now, most people will just start writing that ticket. Bam. Well, you're fifteen. Permit only says fourteen. Gotcha. If it's a day shift and you can call a permit office, you can ask them, hey, you tell them who you are and they'll get when they when you tell them you're an inspector out here looking at a permit, they'll get with you. They're on you right now. So you tell them I got this permit. Driver said he applied for fifteen feet. He's only got a four-teen hours permit. What do you say? Let me look up the application. Yep, he requested fifteen feet. I'm not going to write him a ticket, am I? That's what he requested. Just because his permit says it, he requested that. It's the permit officer's fault, right? So what we'll do, park the driver, say, hey, sorry about that, but they have to redo your permit. It's not going to cost you nothing. We're not going to issue a citation. It's not going to cost you nothing. The permit officer issue another permit for fifteen. They'll fax it here and you'll be on your way. A lot of people just write it and say tough luck. That ain't the right way to do it. Weight and dimension is not the only thing we enforce in this scale house. There's a lot of other things. While you're on that scale, even the empty trucks, just the cabs, got to have fuel stickers. I'm going to look and make sure you got a good tag. I'm going to look at if you got a temporary in the window, I want to come out and look at that temporary. There's lots of other things we look at. So it's not just weight. Certain scale houses enforce this more than they enforce that. And It's weird. We don't all do things the same way. And we've always complained about that, you know, why we don't. But we all get we kind of get into our own little patterns out here. We work by ourselves a lot and we kind of say, OK, well, you know, I mean, I have my own, too. Now, kingpins, for example, my partner and I have a have an understanding. We give the drivers. I was always taught to always give the driver the benefit of doubt. Always. That's the way I was taught. That's the way I teach people. So a kingpin setting, forty one feet, right? We don't write until he hit forty three. I give him two more feet and I figure it this way. I not only give the driver the benefit of doubt, I take into consideration maybe I didn't measure it quite right. So I know it can't be two feet off. So forty three is a magic number. So we give you that little bit of extra. Gives you a little bit, you know, to play with. And if you hit forty three, though, you're toast. You know, we've got to do something about it. Overhang. Car haulers are restricted to if you've got a front load overhang and you see the car haulers, the car hangs over the front and then to hang out the back. Well, they can only do a maximum of three out the front, six out the back. I'm not going to write a guy for six or seven inches of overhang. But if he hits a foot, it's got to be a bona fide foot now. Then I get them. So we give them that little bit of extra. And I tell the drivers that I look, I don't hit you up after three inches. Like the law says I can do. I give you that little bit of extra. So don't be mad at me when you come in here a whole foot over, you know, and I decide I'm going to do something. So, but that's the way I was taught. Give them that little bit of extra. Not everybody does that. You run a little bit overweight. If you would pull in that rear line on your right, bring us in your tractor and your trailer registration driver's license. The vehicle was sixteen hundred pounds overweight. I asked the driver to pull in the parking lot, bring in his paperwork. At that time, we didn't know he already had a citation issued to him. So he'll park. He'll come in the scale house and he'll have his little ticket and his little envelope. You know, that's the old telltale sign. I know he's already been issued one. It was issued a wait ticket. You can resume. Lots of guys will come in here and they will be. a thousand pounds overweight, and they'll tell us, hey, I've got a quarter tank of fuel. You can add fuel. The only problem is when you leave Florida, all that extra weight you put on is going to apply to the next state. So you're good in Florida, but you're not going to be good somewhere else. Every state... has their own government, has their own legislature, and they want to make their own laws. The drivers will come in here and they'll say, why is Georgia this and Florida is that? Why is Utah this and Georgia? Because that's our government. That's your system. They make their laws based on how they want to run it in their state. So that's the way everything goes. With pre-pass and drive-wise and all the programs that we've got, that vehicles, you know, there's all kinds of ways to slip by us. It's hard to notice. You've got so many trucks, so much truck traffic, so much car traffic. It's hard to notice whether somebody's out there that's supposed to be or not. I want to tell you this. Ninety-eight percent... Other drivers are just honest guys making a living like you and I are doing. And they're coming in. They follow the law, you know, just like you and I do. You know, drive the speed limits. We go in. We go on the way stations. We follow the speed limit signs. We do. We try to do everything right. You know, we go on green and we stop on red. You know, we do everything right. And ninety percent of them are doing that. So, you know, God bless the guys that are running. Let them go. They will get caught one day. And you know something? And we've had it happen here before, maybe not the same instance of running the coups, but a violation where the driver will blatantly say, I do this every week and I've been doing it for ten years and you only got me once. Yeah, but we got you. Selene Plus Chewables. Chew or False. 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Um, but if you, but I've had a lot of drivers in the past and I've been on her. So I have, I have drivers that told me, uh, they pulled over on the interstate in a safety lane over here and walk across the ditch and into the scales and say, I couldn't get over. Uh, I was on a cell phone and I was doing this. I was doing that. And I got busy and I saw the sign and I tried to move over and a four-wheeler wouldn't let me in. So I kind of look at that like this. If you went through all the trouble to stop right here and come in, you know, I was asking to bring in their bills. If I see them coming, bring me your bills. If he's weighing eighty thousand pounds. I'm going to take his paperwork and I want to tell him to go down the next exit. Get off. Turn left. Turn left again. Go south. Go down to that exit. Turn around. Left, left. Come right up over there and come here and pick your paperwork up. I had a guy in here one night out of Alabama. Nice guy. Six hundred pounds overweight. Driving a piece of crap. Just driving a piece of crap. A little cab over. Beat up. Pulled in. Nice guy. I said, hey, man, just a little bit overweight tonight, you know, six hundred pounds. He goes, oh, OK. A real mild mannered guy, you know. And he says, well, how much is that going to cost me? I said, that's thirty bucks, you know. OK. All right. And that's why we're taking money back then, you know, the cash money. He said, got to looking at his registration and expired. Well, that changes the whole ball. When you got an expired registration, that's bad, bad, bad. A thirty dollar fine turned into a two thousand dollar fine. When I told him that, I thought the guy's going to start crying. I thought, oh, man, you know, hate to do these. I hate to do these. Then he says to me, would you mind if I go in the truck and get my wife? And I said, why you know he said well she I thought he was I thought he was telling me a story I was rolling up my pants leg because the crap was getting deep he told me he says I got her with me so I don't want to travel with her but she just had brain surgery I'm thinking boy this guy's good he's this guy's good man he's got john wayne in him you know because he's he's giving me the bill and uh I said, okay. I said, brain surgery. He says, yeah. And he says, I can't leave her for very long because she has seizures. I said, okay. You can bring her in here if you want. So he did. Brought her in. Nice lady. Real quiet. Mild mannered. Sat down in a chair. And I started telling him what it was going to cost him. course she he got upset she got upset she got so upset he said I got to be careful because she has seizures she gets she can't get excited you know I'm thinking I'm still thinking this guy's telling me a story he told me they he said we're living in this truck had to sell my house to pay for the surgery we're living on that truck and he says I'm just trying to make a living and I'm thinking geez So she starts crying. Then she starts shaking. Then she falls on the floor. And then he tells me, help me hold her down. She's having a seizure. So I got her legs. He's got her head because it's a concrete floor like this. She's jumping around like a fish out of water. And we're holding her down. And I'm the only one working that day. Trucks are going by. No one's weighing trucks because I'm holding this lady. She's bouncing around like it's unreal. So after about fifteen minutes of that, she starts settling down. She starts shaking and carrying on. Now, if this was an act, my God, I'm going to give him an Oscar. I ain't kidding you. After all that, got her back in a chair. Half hour went by or longer. And I got to thinking, I said, I can't do this, this guy, you know? I said, look, you got the thirty bucks on you? Yep. I said, I'll write the ticket for the six hundred pounds. And I must have just overlooked that expired registration. And I said, please, don't go through no more scales, man, because somebody else is going to bust your ass. I swear to God, don't. I said, whatever you have to do to get back to Alabama, do it. But don't go through another set of scales. You know, man. I told you I could write a book, man. I ain't kidding you. Stuff like that happens every day out here, you know? I mean, not so much the last few years, but the first ten or fifteen years out here, it was a circus. It was one thing after another. In fact, I worked with a young black kid. His name was Richard Jones. He deemed me the magnet. He called me a magnet. I said, why do you call me the magnet? He said, because everything happens when I'm working with you. He said, none of this crap happens. He says, it only happens. And I mean, I mean, we've had, we've had hookers in here. I mean, oh my God, that just keeps going on and on and on. Why would hookers, truck driving hookers or something? Look, we're in the middle of nowhere. Where'd she come from? She didn't drive in. She all of a sudden pops through the back door. Hi guys, how's it going? No car. I told my buddy, I said, is there a truck out there? No truck, no car, nothing on the interstate, nothing. Where do you come from? And she just started a conversation. You know, hi, how's it going? We're thinking. I said, Richard, what does she want? So I don't know. Oh, boy. Was this when you guys were still taking money? I don't remember. That might be. But the real drivers, what I call real drivers, know that we're not here. be a pain in their butt we're here to do a job now I granted there are people out here that probably are a pain in the butt but trust me there's for every one of us there's one of them okay so we get on both ends too we get some pretty nasty drivers in here uh most of the time that's not true most of the time we get a lot of good most of the drivers are great explain the law in detail and they understand You have no problems with them. You're going to get a couple of them that still don't disagree. But, you know, that's it is what it is. I treat the drivers like they treat me. OK, you come in here. You got a great attitude. I got a great attitude. I'm going to I'm still going to give you the fine. I can't get past that. I'm still going to give you a citation. But. I could be nice about it. If you can be nice about it, we can get business done and get it out of the way. There's a driver's restroom in the driver's room, and that's specifically for drivers. There's what we call a comfort station in the back that has, next to the inspection barn, there are three restrooms, male, female, handicapped. The four wheelers can use it too. You know, if you got to make a potty stop and I mean, we're ten miles in between exits. So, I mean, you missed two golden opportunities. One of the main things I'd like to stress is that at any Florida scale, the drivers can park overnight free. OK, ain't going to cost you nothing. And let me put this rumor to rest. I wondered one time why we used to line that back parking lot up at night. There used to be so many trucks out there that you couldn't breathe because of the diesel fumes. I'm not kidding you. But all of a sudden, they disappeared. And I started asking drivers why they're not parking back there anymore at night. Why do you want to go to a truck stop and pay when you can park here for nothing? Because we don't want to get a DOT inspection in the morning when we wake up. I can tell you that's not going to happen. Our officers were specifically told, don't you go in that rear parking lot in the morning and start knocking on doors. Don't do it. So that I can't say would never happen at another scale house. I can't guarantee that because I only work here, but it won't happen here. My forte is in training and education. I love doing those two things. I find myself doing a lot of it doing this. The sad part of the job is having to actually issue that citation. Been here a long time, threatened to quit an awful lot of times in the last twenty two years. Trust me. And now I'm in, you know, Florida drop program. So I'm within five years of retirement. If you interviewed anybody else out here and they heard me tell you that I've enjoyed this job for twenty two years. My hosting a WooCommerce store earns me money all day, every day. 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These trucks must follow specific routes and follow specific travel conditions. Okay, I hope everyone has had a chance to see what is all involved in when a truck goes actually from the process of them entering into the way station from the highway until the point where they actually exit through the way station. I hope this clarifies the different type of technology that the DOT officers now have accessible to them. And I hope this also gives you an idea of the responsibilities a driver has to keep his equipment in the tip-top condition. So this will end module thirty, a description of the weigh stations.