Which state has the strictest DOT?

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Auquaholic@reddit

Wyoming calls more people in for paperwork check than any other that I know of. Virginia will ticket your sss for using the area just outside of rest areas.

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Ninja-Storyteller@reddit

Agreed. Wyoming at Cheyenne pulls me in constantly. Just paper checks, and they are chill about it, but you're still stopping and getting your paperwork out.

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Ye_Yuan@reddit

Nebraska is serious about sleeping on the ramps also. Granted this was 11 years back now.

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit

Oklahoma has 24/7 weight stations. We almost got lucky and had a tornado take one of them out, but instead hit the fucking dollar tree warehouse.

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TheRizzler777@reddit (OP)

They're probably looking for drugs coming up from the border perhaps?

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GoodGoodGoody@reddit

Gonna have a tough time as a driver if you’re that unfamiliar with maps.

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TheRizzler777@reddit (OP)

Well I'm from Texas and the dot in new Mexico, Arkansas and Oklahoma keep an eye out for illegals and drugs pretty carefully.

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Distinct-Event-7472@reddit

Is it even possible to take a route avoiding weigh stations?

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Old-Wolf-1024@reddit

Absolutely….the “get around” for Texola,Oklahoma scale runs right in front of my house……and it stays busy

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TableChairguy@reddit

Brown. Don't think alot of Germans are being smuggled thru the boarder. So brown.

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Emergency_Ad1152@reddit

So carefully, their state has a drug epidemic. All they care about is overweight tickets and random inspections. I go through country roads to avoid their stations.

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deezkeys098@reddit

Na they are the only state that won’t let you try to adjust your tandems if your overweight they write the ticket they just want the $$

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MarmotWorldOrder@reddit

Found that out the hard way after coworker dropped a t-call without scaling it.

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Pepperidge Farm remembers when Oklahoma used to basically not even have weigh stations. The ones that they did have were essentially in utter disrepair. That all changed a while back and they became the strictest of strict. Alabama, on the other hand just has the one weigh station, so I would probably call them the least strict.

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RuneScape420Homie@reddit

Alabama locals say the Roll Tide state got lots of portal scales.

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forkystabbyveggie@reddit

I don't think Mississippi can afford weigh stations.

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MarmotWorldOrder@reddit

That one on I-35 S after you come out of Texas is unforgiving.

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Safe_Fail_568@reddit

That scale house is notorious

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19lunacrab65@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣💨🌪️

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Hxncheaux@reddit

Oklahoma.

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homucifer666@reddit

Wyoming will dock you for driving during a wind restriction.

Wisconsin is also pretty humourless about weights.

California is actually pretty chill as long as you don't cruise the left lane or speed excessively.

Georgia is picky about speeding and phone use that isn't hands-free.

Arkansas will nail you for parking on a ramp.

New York also shuns phone use, to the point they have "text stops" where you can park up to half an hour.

Those are the more notable ones for me. I'm sure there's others if I think long enough, but the key is to just do your job and follow the laws as best as you know how.

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Forward-Taste8956@reddit

You’re not wrong about Georgia and phone use. I was out on the road for three months with no issues, and on my final trip back already an hour into Georgia, in Greensboro and about an hour from Atlanta I get pulled over for having my phone in my hand. Three months clean, and right as I’m finishing my last delivery back home, I catch a ticket. That’s Georgia..

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ImShamallamadingdong@reddit

I mean just about any state would nail you for your phone in your hand… especially in a CMV…

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Forward-Taste8956@reddit

The ticket was thrown out

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TableChairguy@reddit

Didn't know i was such a Georgia fan if thats how they are

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Forward-Taste8956@reddit

I don’t why people are down voting me the ticket was thrown out 🤣

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Shut_It_Donny@reddit

Top 3 in the country for cell phone tickets written. We just installed cell phone holders in all company trucks, and offered them to all IC’s for free.

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bentstrider83@reddit

Case in point. If you're glued to your phone, either find another line of work, or cancel cell service altogether. Beeper and Whatever phone booths still exist.

Sometimes you got to go to extremes to stay in check.

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DaSaw@reddit

Wyoming also pulls everyone in for the first month or two of the year just to check registrations.

California is basically the only state in the whole country that cares where your tandems are set. (I've heard there's a second one, but I don't remember which.)

And I'm not sure exactly what happened, but there was this weird period of about two months where I got level ones five different times in Montana.

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TinkerTasker22@reddit

I love New Yorks text stops

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Snookfilet@reddit

TN is also serious about the ramps.

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SexMachine666@reddit

Maryland scale on 68 is pretty strict and they have cops patrolling the slow sections and will ticket you for even a few miles per hour over the limit.

Washington State got me a few times and they will nitpick you to death.

Oregon is pretty chill as long as you have your fuel permit in order.

Back when I first started driving 22 years ago, Ohio was the worst. That Wadsworth scale was always giving everyone Level 1s. They're mostly closed all the time now and Staties will only pull you over if you're doing something stupid.

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Slyfer29@reddit

A lot of the Northeast states very unfriendly to trucks. In Connecticut I was barely speeding up over the speed limit and a cop lit me up to get me to slow down. Got kicked out of rest areas for being there for more than 10 hours. Oh Virginia was pretty bad too, pulled onto the shoulder for like 3 seconds and the police teleported behind me.

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chazzzzmak1972@reddit

Oregon sure does have a lot of red dots on the Rand McNally

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lottanadatosay@reddit

You can be towing 9 cars in a line with a pontoon boat at the end of the line with 6 people drinking beer in the pontoon boat on Oregon and just breeze right by the weigh stations. It’s the Mexico of the US

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rottenstock@reddit

i understood that reference .gif

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december151791@reddit

Virginia weigh stations are never closed and never give bypasses.

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Mental_Chef1617@reddit

Really? Then why do I get the bypass 90% of the time I go by the VA scales?

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december151791@reddit

Luck?

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bentstrider83@reddit

See NM appearing a lot in here. I routinely go through the Raton Port and the Clovis port and just get waved on through if I get the red light.

So far, I've had a Level 1 in Lamar CO last year and a level 1 at the Boise City OK scale in 2024. Prior to that, no pull ins whatsoever at those spots. Of course they're all open between 5am and maybe 7p. Once it's late, they're long gone until sun up.

When I used to live and drive in CA, a good chunk of those scales on the main freeways were always open 24/7.

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Goldleader-23@reddit

New Mexico is the only state ive ever been pulled over for an inspection in 9 years of driving. The officer said he did it because I didnt have any inspections on file

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kingsnow18@reddit

Actually is quite impressive to have been inspection free for 9 years! I've been inspected 4 times in the last 5 months. 2 level 1 inspections.

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NFLTG_71@reddit

Tell the only thing I miss about Covid is the fact that all the weigh stations were closed

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OneMulatto@reddit

Only time I've ever been pulled behind the scale was in New Mexico myself. Doing doubles for FedEx. I had already been driving for 10 plus years and had no idea what to do.

They just looked at my paperwork and let me roll on.

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RabbitFabs@reddit

Same thing happened to me in oklahoma! I had gotten a bypass from every scale that was open for almost a month straight, he pulls me in for a level 3. I pass, it was another 3 weeks before I was rolled across the I-81 NB scale in troutville, which that one is near garunteed to be a pull in and roll across at the least.

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NFLTG_71@reddit

New Mexico is depending on the time of day you go through. You got a good chance to get pulled in there at least once as you’re going through the state and California I had a brand new tractor and a brand new trailer. I got pulled into California and they gave me a level three inspection said I had all this shit wrong with my truck. I had to go up the road to a loves had them redo the inspection and loves said that none of the stuff that he put on the report was true so take that anywhere you like

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Fearless_Selection69@reddit

Virginia and Maryland are pretty strict. These 2 states will issue the most OOS violations.

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SnakeandNape5000@reddit

Maryland gave me a warning for missing the scale on US 50 near Salisbury. It's not on the main highway you have to go down another road to get to it. I saw the signs but I was looking for a ramp or something. By the time the trees cleared out I saw the scale house but the Trooper was already in his car ready to grab me.

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Usual-Wasabi-6846@reddit

I can't speak to the commercial side but for regular drivers Maryland doesn't really give a fuck half the time so I would be surprised if they were super strict for truckers.

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Conscious-Emu-2912@reddit

I've really haven't had much trouble in those two states and I've been thru them alot

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BeenThruIt@reddit

The old heads all claimed it was Iowa.

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PearlMillingCompany@reddit

They got rid of the Scale in Wilton, IA on I-80 between Davenport and Iowa City, so I-80 east of Des Moines has no scales, but they do have CMV state troopers that will stop trucks on that section of I-80 for inspections. I’ve heard they’re strict on 380

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knownfacts227@reddit

If your a foreign driver… Then Indiana is a pretty hardcore dot with foreigners. But they are not as bad as Oklahoma

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Whichpickle42@reddit

Michigan Pulled over for water coming out of my trailer after 8" of rain

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up3r@reddit

Bowling Green KY area is HIGHLY monitored

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UOLZEPHYR@reddit

All. The. Fucking. Time.

Ive seen that scale closed ONE time in 3 years of driving.

Light off, no cars, etc

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