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C'mon...", "thumbUrl": "", "dateAdded": "2011-04-20T20:37:25Z", "lastPost": "2011-04-20T20:37:25Z", "views": 2123, "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "messageCount": 4, "premiumOnly": 0, "isfeatured": 0, "showInDays": -100, "showDate": "", "forumLink": "", "youtubeVideoId": "", "approved": 1, "active": 1, "alias": "portable-scales-on-interstate", "forumUrl": "https://www.bulkloads.com/forum/portable-scales-on-interstate/", "userId": 2887, "firstName": "JOE", "lastName": "MATA", "companyName": "JPM GRAIN TRANSPORT", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "NEOSHO", "state": "MO", "userCommentCount": 40, "userLikes": 0, "replies": [ { "replyId": 21074, "content": "That's pretty bad. Illinois is a broke state looking for any way possible to make some more money.", "contentHtml": "That's pretty bad. Illinois is a broke state looking for any way possible to make some more money.", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-03-03", "dateAdded": "2011-04-20T20:46:58Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 244, "firstName": "JASON", "lastName": "CROW", "companyName": "BTS, LLC", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "MOUNDS", "state": "IL", "userCommentCount": 5, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 28094, "content": "With IL. registrations and property tax, thats pretty bad politics. I've heard Iowa was broke. Try rolling heavy east-west on Route 3 from Oelwein, thats a highway in need of repair!\n", "contentHtml": "With IL. registrations and property tax, thats pretty bad politics. I've heard Iowa was broke. Try rolling heavy east-west on Route 3 from Oelwein, thats a highway in need of repair!<br />", "parentReplyId": 21074, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-10-22", "dateAdded": "2011-04-20T20:53:53Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 2887, "firstName": "JOE", "lastName": "MATA", "companyName": "JPM GRAIN TRANSPORT", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "NEOSHO", "state": "MO", "userCommentCount": 40, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 21075, "content": "Some states have a portable weigh in motion scale system...You may not even know when you are being weighed...All this is is a business expense...instead of higher taxes..they ticket you to death...I don't even know if that is a CSA reportable ticket or not....California it goes on your driving record....Most it is just a revenue inhancement...People complain about rough or rutted roads? This is mostly from overloads....If you want to see high fines..Haul a load that weighs about 180,000 and have a bad permit...One guy got one for something like 19,000 bucks...Just try not to be overloaded....Maybe the states are going after the bull haulers and bulk because the rates are higher than the flats and vans...Maybe they are getting to many trucks given to them for the fines...", "contentHtml": "Some states have a portable weigh in motion scale system...You may not even know when you are being weighed...All this is is a business expense...instead of higher taxes..they ticket you to death...I don't even know if that is a CSA reportable ticket or not....California it goes on your driving record....Most it is just a revenue inhancement...People complain about rough or rutted roads? This is mostly from overloads....If you want to see high fines..Haul a load that weighs about 180,000 and have a bad permit...One guy got one for something like 19,000 bucks...Just try not to be overloaded....Maybe the states are going after the bull haulers and bulk because the rates are higher than the flats and vans...Maybe they are getting to many trucks given to them for the fines...", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-11-12", "dateAdded": "2011-04-21T11:48:26Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 3078, "firstName": "JEFF", "lastName": "PEARSON", "companyName": "C & R TRUCKING INC", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "PAYSON", "state": "UT", "userCommentCount": 927, "userLikes": 225, "userDislikes": 94, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 } ], "userDislikes": 0, "signUpDate": "2010-10-22", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0, "iSubscribe": 0 }

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PORTABLE SCALES ON INTERSTATE??

Posted on Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM CST in NEOSHO, MO