captain037 wrote:
Let me reiterate one thing that the tone of your post said. FOR THE MOST PART, STREET COPS DON"T CARE HOW MUCH YOUR RIG WEIGHS! They have criminal laws to enforce. That's what THEY do. The Alabama Public Service Commission Enforcement Division and The Alabama State Troopers weigh commercial vehicles in this state. I have never seen an RV being weighed in Alabama by any LE agency.quote]
In all the counties of IL where I've worked I've only seen a couple of city and county LEOs stop trucks for overweights. In those cases it wasn't like it was a close call. They had stopped some real heavy ones and knew they wouldn't be close to legal. Even then they called one of my Troops to walk them thru the process. Most of the time the big city LEOs were too busy chasing from one call to another and the county LEOs were kept busy serving papers. The only other time I saw local LEOs jumping on trucks big time was when one of the Troops would snag one hauling a large quantity of dope or money then they all started looking at trucks coming thru. It was a great time for everyone then.
