Weigh station basics.

August 26, Rensselaer.

There were two routes this morning, one short and a long one that avoided the interstate, probably because there was a weigh station on the way. Circus rule: weigh station are to be avoided at all cost. Sometimes with Circus Chimera management had us make a 80 mile detour on bad country roads in order to bypass a weigh station on a straight 30 mile stretch of freeway.
Weigh stations are checkpoints set on highways or freeways and when they are open it is mandatory for truck drivers to stop and have their tractor trailers checked for everything from weight, as the name indicates, to the driver's log, where work hours are recorded, to anything having to do with the safety of the truck. When there are a dozen trucks involved the wait can become exceedingly long, hence the circus rule.
We took the long route, Fridman driving a truck that would have had to pull over.