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I have to chim in on this because of my experience with commercial trucking nation wide. Most states do not have the personnal to man the scales 24/7 365 days. There is more commercial trucking than they can keep track of. If you will notice a mile or so before a DOT scale there is a pole with a strange looking box attached over the road. That box transmits to a receiver in some commercial trucks that have a scale bypass tag with either a green light or a red light. If they are busy they will transmit a green light to the trucker to by-pass the scales. If a trucking company has good hours of service records and a weight program they are issued these receivers to allow them to bypass the scales even when the scales are open. They do this because they can't handle the commercial traffic at the time as it can backup onto the interstate and cause a traffic safety issue. Now if they start pulling non-commercial RV's into the scale they will have traffic backed up to the next state line.
So for those promoting fears of RV's having to scale, I suggest you talk to your local "diesel cop" for their input. We have had Indiana DOT bring their new recruits to our facility since we were only a block down the road from Ind State DOT headquarters, to practice safety inspections on tractor trailer units. I have talked with several of the training officers as I worked in our training facility and I can tell you RV's are the least of their concern unless they have reason to suspect drug trafficking. They are concern more about drugs moving in RV's especially in the coastal area's than they are wheither a unit is within weight specs.
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