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Francesca_Knowl
May 21, 2014Explorer
Since you're only looking for info for yourself and don't need an official "weght ticket" or anything:
Dunno about Colorado, but around here there are plenty of highway scales that are unmanned/mothballed but for some reason the scales themselves are still "on". I've weighed more than one setup at such scales, and there's so little traffic that one can reverse the rig and weigh one side at least, or sometimes individual corners. Depends on configuration of the scale.
The other casual places I've used are landfill scales and those in small town freight yards where grain trucks etc. have to weigh before offloading. The latter scales are always on, regardless if they're manned.
Dunno about Colorado, but around here there are plenty of highway scales that are unmanned/mothballed but for some reason the scales themselves are still "on". I've weighed more than one setup at such scales, and there's so little traffic that one can reverse the rig and weigh one side at least, or sometimes individual corners. Depends on configuration of the scale.
The other casual places I've used are landfill scales and those in small town freight yards where grain trucks etc. have to weigh before offloading. The latter scales are always on, regardless if they're manned.
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