Do all truck and trailers have to pull into weigh stations in illinois

#DO ALL TRUCK AND TRAILERS HAVE TO PULL INTO WEIGH STATIONS IN ILLINOIS GENERATOR#
#DO ALL TRUCK AND TRAILERS HAVE TO PULL INTO WEIGH STATIONS IN ILLINOIS LICENSE#

Almost home on a 2-lane state highway, I watched in the rear view as a DOT (weigh boys, we called 'em) car ran up behind me and looked me over. The other time, I had gone to Memphis to get a load of used utility poles big load on a dual-tandem gooseneck. He came back to the truck and said, 'Your cattle sure have diarrhea, anything wrong with 'em?' I had never thought about cattle having 'diarrhea' and had to turn my head to keep him from seeing my smile finally told him, 'You'd have put me in jail if some of that had splashed on you (HE SURE WAS PURTY) I would have had to laugh.' This was in the Spring cattle had been on early grass.

#DO ALL TRUCK AND TRAILERS HAVE TO PULL INTO WEIGH STATIONS IN ILLINOIS LICENSE#

Been pulled over twice first time by a YOUNG state trooper because he couldn't see the truck license plate walked around looking me over.

In TN, you don't have to license farmer type trailers the truck carries the whole thing. Don't know what the gross weight was just always licensed my truck to make sure I was covered. It would hold 14-15000 # of feeder cattle. When I was running cattle, I had a 32 ft tri-axle gooseneck. I agree with Gary_C have never stopped at a weigh station. Guess this (moving a load with a pickup) is one time it pays to live in a backwards state. What's the scoop on the weight stations, and what paperwork should I expect to give them when I roll across one? I can just see me trying to explain to a NJ state trooper why I'm Legal driving a MD Farm truck towing a WM mill in South Jersey!! I'm not brave enough to call that much attention to myself or my 15 year old rig! In both states, you're allowed to drive a farm tagged vehicle between farms you own or rent (on farm business, of course). Maryland considers a farmer working his own timber to still be farming. The farm I own is in Maryland, my steers are in south Jersey (100 miles away where I live). The bad thing about this is that most of my using of this truck will be farm related, and I should be able to put farm truck tags on it. can lay really heavy fines on you if you give them reason to. The other side of the coin is I hear the D.O.T.

#DO ALL TRUCK AND TRAILERS HAVE TO PULL INTO WEIGH STATIONS IN ILLINOIS GENERATOR#

My Bro-in-law (a trucker) says the weight thing is just a money generator for the state, and tht if I put 'NOT FOR HIRE' stickers on the door, they are not likely to bother me. Here's the question: If I tag this thing for say 20K, and since the door sticker says 11K now, am I supposed to stop at those weight stations? Even when empty? I think the answer is yes, but maybe there's something I don't know about this stuff. I'm liking the self inspect part, because they'll fail you for so many things that have no safety significance - like a misalligned gear shift indicator for example.

None of this will be for hire.ДЄfter working through the state's motor vehicles phone system, I finally got a guy that says I can tag the truck as a personal vehicle, no commercial tags required, and believe it or not, since it's door sticker says 11,000 lbs, and it's a diesel, I can self inspect. I will use this thing for everything from hauling logs to hauling hay to trailering my junk around. I've bought myself a '92 Ford F350 12 stake body dump.

Do all truck and trailers have to pull into weigh stations in illinois