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#108
Joe steers his company's tractor-trailer rig to an interstate weigh station in Knox County, Tennessee, for the required weight measurement and safety inspection. As with his other three stops on weigh station scales that day, his truck idles for about five minutes, wasting diesel fuel and precious time. But his truck weight is once again found to be below the legal limit, so he knows his company won't be ticketed and fined.
Joe's truck is one of 500,000 carriers on the nation's highways that are checked four times each day in the never-ending search for vehicles that are overloaded and otherwise unsafe. The cost to the motor carrier industry and, subsequently, to consumers of these mandated truck stops is estimated to be over $15 million daily. In addition, because weight enforcement activities are slow and cumbersome, weigh stations are often overcrowded. Law enforcement officials often face two choices that together can create unsafe conditions. They can allow vehicles to back up in long lines near weigh station entrance ramps. Or they can let carriers bypass stations without being weighed or inspected.