Posted on 06/29/2021 6:01:01 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
On June 25, NSP announced the deployment of a new technology system designed to detect safety issues with commercial vehicles traveling on I-80 near the Waverly and North Platte weigh stations.
According to NSP, the new system “includes technology embedded in the pavement of I-80 that detects a flat tire on a commercial vehicle, while the vehicle is moving at interstate speeds. The system then flags that vehicle and requires the driver to exit at the weigh station for the flat tire to be addressed.”
Also included with the technology upgrades is a camera system that can read license plates of commercial vehicles as well as the DOT number of each vehicle before the vehicle reaches the weigh station. The system then checks for safety issues associated with the truck or company.
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Blued, screwed, and tattooed ... tell it to the judge... next.
Nice. Wouldn’t be needed if the vehicles had tire sensors. But many, many truckers would never do that unless forced.
Any driver who has driven a big rig for any amount of time can tell when he has a flat on the trailer. You can feel it and sometimes hear it if you are attentive. A driver should stop and do a walk around and thump his tires at least every 4 hours anyway.
If they can read commercial plates...they are reading all plates.
I learned that from Sonny Pruett and Will Chandler.
Usually, stop at the scales and park in back to present your paper work inside.
My first thoughts, exactly— they don’t need meddling tech weenies to tell them 1.)their tires are under-inflated (there is a lot of simple tech on vehicle to monitor tire pressure for each tire.. each one and while in use.
2.) if this is mis worded— a “FLAT” tire is instantly notable to any experienced long or short haul driver. Can’t miss it, even if running “empty” in cargo excess to tare weight.
This is a money grab— big surprise. One more parasitic tech weenie in search of harrassment potential in their sales pitch to the lib morons. People like butt-gig the Trannysportation Secetary of the US. He be purrfect for this niggling crap.
My first thoughts, exactly— they don’t need meddling tech weenies to tell them 1.)their tires are under-inflated (there is a lot of simple tech on vehicle to monitor tire pressure for each tire.. each one and while in use.
2.) if this is mis worded— a “FLAT” tire is instantly notable to any experienced long or short haul driver. Can’t miss it, even if running “empty” in cargo excess to tare weight.
This is a money grab— big surprise. One more parasitic tech weenie in search of harrassment potential in their sales pitch to the lib morons. People like butt-gig the Trannysportation Secetary of the US. He be purrfect for this niggling crap.
Sorry for the double post— the net is slow in posting to the server— it did not show up at first.
Admin— please remove the second/repeat post reply. thank you!
The problem then is that the driver(s) get paid by the mile, not by the hour. They aren’t going to stop. And finding someone to put a tire on a trailer at 3 am can be difficult, to say the least. If it rolls, it goes.
Not today with elogs and such and a transmitter in the cab, many trucks owned by freight outfits with that setup don’t have to stop. Now, the independant owner operator is another story, they get those guys coming and going.
And while you are at it, check the citizenship of the driver.
Safety, control, or money? Take a guess....
Since you have moved, Texas still has occasional scale stops, roving DPS Weight Men, and many municiples with their own Weight Men to pull over trucks at whim.
One of many reasons you can’t find enough truck drivers.
Uh. Nope.
Agreed. Paid by the mile and the trailer is a rented mule.
Except for super singles.
When they go flat..
All true.
Shredded tire-treads are very rare on Autobahns.
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