How did Blitz week go for everybody?

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chillary_shank@reddit

Got me 20 mins after switching out my baaaaaaalllld assssss trailer tires 🥰🥰

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PlastomaGaming@reddit

It’s already over? I didn’t see any DOT actually although I don’t think they like being out at 3am.

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happyh0gan@reddit

i got pulled into a weigh station 4 times in one night

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TouchMyBoomstick@reddit

Ran nights. Couldn’t get around one when deadheading home, just had to roll down the windows and act extra American, no issues.

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KingofthePi11@reddit

Same. Shooting a .50 Desert Eagle out of the window in one hand while clutching a triple whopper burger in the other usually sells it for me when running through weigh stations.

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KingofthePi11@reddit

So clever, in fact, HP commends it by forming a parade behind me and flashing their emergency lights as soon as I exit!

*You're

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skeletons_asshole@reddit

Well I was planning to work this week, but ended up in a Jetta driving to a funeral instead. Felt pretty weird blasting past every weigh station.

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kali4niakid@reddit

The ones that didn’t pass can’t comment because they went straight to jail

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bruhmoment67823@reddit

got pulled in for lvl 2 in new mexico somewhere maybe right outside albakirky 🤪 and then got pulled over in arkansas for my paperwork.

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Revival-Waters@reddit (OP)

At a weight station near Albuquerque? Or by a trooper?

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indytrucks@reddit

Business as usual. Truck stops seemed unusually busy at around 4-5pm. Maybe more people were trying to run at night to avoid things. Idk. 🤷‍♂️

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Revival-Waters@reddit (OP)

Thats good, where I was I've never so many weigh stations open.

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Armchair-Attorney@reddit

32% vehicle out of service rate for motor vehicles is wild so far.

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TruckerBiscuit@reddit

Smooth sailing. Barely even saw a weigh station open and the one that called me in bypassed me immediately.

Hope DOT snagged their share of white Volvo types though.

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All the weigh stations in Washington seemed to be open..got pulled into all of them. Lots of DOT doing inspections They kept me rolling so no inspections were done on me. I did get a pre blitz level 3 in Ohio on Sunday.

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TruckerBiscuit@reddit

Yeah...WA has a serious hard-on for truckers. Glad you made it through unscathed!

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zero-pup@reddit

I’m surprised…I’m O/O with Landstar and our safety score is 98! We are pretty much 100% pull in rate

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TruckerBiscuit@reddit

In WA or everywhere? Yeah, that's nuts. I haul for Prime (also O/O) and get bypassed probably 80% of the time.

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zero-pup@reddit

Yeah everywhere. I get a green light every once in awhile.

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TruckerBiscuit@reddit

So bizarre; counterintuitive.

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tvieno@reddit

I crossed a scale, I was empty. They pulled the truck in front of me to the side and waved me on. That's it.

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Dreamz1943@reddit

I did notice more DOT inspectors in the backroads used to bypass the weight stations. Luckily I found another backroad that I used to bypass said road and avoided inspections.

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Revival-Waters@reddit (OP)

Thats how you do it

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NoRelation1491@reddit

I haul fuel on nights....what is blitz week?! LOL.

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Revival-Waters@reddit (OP)

If you were in Texas hell yes it was

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BooDBangz@reddit

I don’t think we got pulled into a single weigh station…

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Revival-Waters@reddit (OP)

Good to hear

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PaulHOGG@reddit

My truck broke down on Tuesday and its been in the shop since so yeah no inspections, but now I gotta pay a 9k shop bill. I think id rather have been inspected.

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Revival-Waters@reddit (OP)

Thats hurts

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Feisty-Tomato8812@reddit

It was blitz week?

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Unfair-Variety-995@reddit

It’s been odd this week. I run southern Michigan and northern Indiana. I usually see troopers all day and pass by several DOT specialists each day. The only state police cars I’ve seen this week have been parked at their stations. No stops. No inspections. I will agree with other comments about there seeming to have been less traffic on the road this week.

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Snappypants9@reddit

I run this area too and had the same experience - I was all geared up and then they left me hanging 😅

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Auquaholic@reddit

It was almost hilarious. I had an OD load and so I have to roll any open scale even if I get a bypass signal. Usually, at the very minimum, they come out and check my permit while I'm on the scale. Often, I have to park and go inside. Every one of them let me roll on without any of it. It was.... shocking.

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Psychological_Ad_963@reddit

That's sheer luck with those 3

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clindh@reddit

Grossed $9000 on 1800 easy miles out west. Phoenix - sparks - Denver. Intentionally booked those lanes to minimize weigh station exposure

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Psychological_Ad_963@reddit

That's the way to do it.

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EnolaNek@reddit

Some scales along my route that are usually closed opened up and pulled in as many people as they could fit, but that was about it. I wasn’t inspected (not that I had any reason to worry about getting inspected, trust).

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Square-Lion4581@reddit

Drove through California and Nevada mostly this week, definitely saw more DOT at the weigh stations than usual. Got pulled for random inspection in Barstow but everything checked out fine - just took extra 30 minutes I didn't really have

Hope everyone else made it through without major headaches

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Psychological_Ad_963@reddit

O my Bar Stool... they stuck¡!

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Revival-Waters@reddit (OP)

Of all places to get pulled over it had to be Barstow...

At least you made it through without any citations. I've only trucked through California twice, and one of the times my passenger window got shot out.

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MajorHymen@reddit

Drove nights, no scales open

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Emergency-Bus-998@reddit

I'm in Canada. I missed the huge blitz coming on to one of most major highways in BC. Only to be pulled in at a smaller scale for a broken windshield. But he only did a walk around to find a broken windshield and an onpperative left turn signal. And that is effed up. My turn signal was working this morning when I did my pretrip. I get back to the yard, lift my hood, turn on my four ways, and lookie lookie, the damn thing is working. So a short that decided to cut out just for a short inspection. Fucker

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Psychological_Ad_963@reddit

They got me a few years back for an invisible air leak in SC.

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Tiburon712@reddit

3 level 1 inspections on Wednesday. All clear on all 3.

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Pm_Me_Mtn_Bikes@reddit

So you got 3 new stickers?

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Tiburon712@reddit

No, I was only given one on my 3rd at the Worthington MN scale on 90. The first inspection was at the scale on Highway 71 in Early Iowa, and the second was at one of the South Dakota pullouts on I29.

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Pm_Me_Mtn_Bikes@reddit

Las Vegas point of entry was busy all day 6am - 7pm chilled at the truck stop before it with some other sketchy truckers and waited for them to close

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xdjfrick@reddit

Looked like even the DOT was burnt out, tired, underpaid and short handed.

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Willigsire@reddit

I'm a local propane guy, delivering cylinders (the kind you grill with) to stores here in DFW. 32 ft box truck with roll up doors on the side, paid hourly. Saw they were doing inspections at the Texas Motor Speedway and knew I had a short route yesterday, and wouldn't get my normal 8 hour shift, so I pulled in and got a level 1 inspection to help pad my time. Passed without any issue and continued on my way.

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ThaQuig@reddit

It was blitz week?

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warwgn@reddit

Got inspected in Oakville ON. Truck/Trailer only. Didn’t ask for my logs, and didn’t ask to see my load. Clean bill.

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DoctorZebra@reddit

I saw a larger than usual number of trucks pulled over by the DOT, but they were mostly dump trucks and hot shots.

It’s hard to tell a difference based on the westbound scale on I70 in Dumont, Colorado because it always looks like a DOT party when it’s open.

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Odd-Fuel-9002@reddit

All scales closed except for one on i70 in Ohio where I got the bypass

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_877-CASH-NOW_@reddit

Not driving rn but the weigh station on 94 going into Wisconsin from Illinois had been open 24/7. They are an active station and almost always open during the day but they’ve been open at night this whole week

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Temporary_Big8747@reddit

I couldn't help but notice there's been a lot fewer trucks on the roads this week.. traffic has been a breeze! 😅👍

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Fox_Tango_@reddit

Got pulled into only one weigh station in North Carolina. Rolled across the scale and kept moving. Every other weigh station I passed was either closed or gave me the green light.

DOT presence was minimal for the most part. Except in South Carolina. They had trucks pulled over left and right on I-85 near the Greenville-Spartanburg area.

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TaperingRanger9@reddit

I didn't get pulled in once but I mostly run late in the day/nights.

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BrussKnackles@reddit

Most scale houses were closed like usual and the ones that were open rolled me through no problem.

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robexib@reddit

Got pulled into a singular scale a couple times, got rushed through both times.

Man, for a blitz, it sure was largely uneventful.

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Heep_4x4@reddit

Canadian trucker here, Atlantic Canada: Pretty decent, ended up helping out my home terminal with local P&D work all week. Tuesday I had to go down to the city (about an hour away) and got scaled on the way down. Green light rolling across so it’s been smooth sailing since.

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Revival-Waters@reddit (OP)

Good to hear you made it through and didnt get any citations.

Of all places to get pulled over it had to be Barstow...