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Locations of current Arkansas weigh-stations [7] Traffic route Closest Arkansas city Mile marker Direction Notes Closest state border US-71/US-59: Ashdown.01 Northbound and Southbound At the Arkansas bank of the Red River: Texas: I-30: Hope: 26 Eastbound Texas: I-30: Hope: 27 Westbound Texas: I-40: Alma: 9 Eastbound Oklahoma: I-40: Alma: 9 ...
A weigh station located near a state border is called a port of entry. States may also locate weigh stations in the interior of the state. Interior weigh stations are often located at choke points or areas where freight originates or is delivered. Many states have weigh in motion technology that allow a continuous flow of truck weighing.
The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), formerly the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, is a government department in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its mission is to provide a safe, efficient, aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sound intermodal transportation system for the user. [ 2 ]
Interstate 40 (I-40) is an east–west Interstate Highway that has a 284.69-mile (458.16 km) section in the U.S. state of Arkansas, connecting Oklahoma to Tennessee.The route enters Arkansas from the west just north of the Arkansas River near Dora.
The highways re-enter Arkansas (specifically Little River County) completely at the Red River. Less than a mile north of the River, all commercial truck traffic is required to pull into an Arkansas Highway Police weigh station. US 59/US 71 serve as an eastern terminus for Highway 380 upon entering Ogden.
In 1995 PrePass was installed in California. By 1998 PrePass was in use in 35 weigh stations in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming. 850 companies had signed on with transponders in 55,000 trucks. [2]
Compliance with the law is checked when vehicles pass through a weigh station, often located at the borders between states or on the outskirts of major cities, where the vehicle may be weighed and measured. The one exception to the formula allows a standard five-axle semi-truck configuration to weigh the maximum legal gross weight.
Around 1940, the Roundtop became a Sinclair station, after Pierce Oil was purchased by the Sinclair Oil Company. Around this time, electric pumps were installed Some time in the early 1950s, Sinclair sold many of their Arkansas stations, including the Roundtop, to the Phillips Petroleum Company, and the station became a Phillips 66 branded station.