3. Trucks avoiding scale at the intersection of 21 and 27W highways
Last one stuck me as funny coming from county personal.
Often you will see the DOT hiding out on those side roads regularly used to avoid the local scale, as with many, once you turn on, your are committed and there is no way out lol, thats why you use some ingenuity when you plot your course lol
For me it goes back to oil field days, and as a lease operator hauling rigs and heavy equipment, any tickets were on me, for the hyway maggots its no big deal, but when every load is pushing the limits in so many different ways, best to avoid them and the hassle. Over the years I have driven hundreds of miles to simply do so and many times ended up on location ahead of the guys who run over the scale and got nailed for everything down to dirty fingernails.
Was a reason a local water hauler was hired by anonymous parties to flood Whitecourt many years ago Christmas eve, froze the works into a block of solid ice, shut that SOB down until spring lol. Same with how the government cut down the trees along the gravel road west of 43 where the old scale was, couldn't say how many times I smoked down that trail myself with the old KW dark save for a set of aux driving lights lol. Mullen knew we were doing it too, hell half the time their own company trucks did it too.
In later years, Slave Lake had a horrendous rep as well. That new one at Lac La Biche is getting a bad name really fast. Lucky for me, the one at Radway is being shut down, so that makes my life easier when I head south down 63, won't have to detour thru Thorhild anymore.
