West Virginia hardly ever opens the scale at that service plaza. They have scales in the inbound lanes, they plug a computer into a cable, and have your weight before you even get in there. PA uses a similar set-up. The I-79 scales up by Morgantown don't even have scales in them, they just watch you roll through, just like I-69 in Coldwater, MI, when I ran through there a lot.
The trick to the Virginia scales, is to get behind a long line of trucks coming up to them. The trucks file in and fill the ramp, then they flip it closed and you can often get by-passed that way.
I think it was 1PM on Sundays, when they opened those scales. As long as you were through by then, you were OK. The one time I had to do that, I had to take 21 north of Statesville, because I had barely got on the interstate in South Carolina when an SUV with MA plates decided to run off the road, whip back on, and flip over and skip a couple hundred yards on its roof right in front of me. And I knew that, for some reason, once North Carolinians get into single file in a construction zone, they can't manage to get up to more than half of the posted speed limit.
Have they re-paved the SB lanes of 77 up flat top yet? The truck bounced so bad, I'd top the hill 10 MPH faster if I stayed out of the right lane.
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