We are right on the OH/PA border and have been running across PA and back for 20+ years. I suspect if you were stopped in a pickup and trailer you either had your company name on the side, or were doing something obviously commercial like a landscaping or construction trailer (PA also considers race teams commercial). Private non-commercial vehicles do not stop at weigh stations regardless of whether you are pulling a trailer. They have been very tough recently though on out of state commercial vehicles as those are easy pickings. If you are commercial and over 10000# gvw and cross the state line, then you fall under usdot regs, and a pickup and pretty much any trailer is over 10k, so they know they have you. I have had a number of friends with small construction companies here in OH get busted in PA with an armload of tickets for no dot numbers etc. But it has to be commercial, they aren't randomly pulling over Tahoes with boats and campers. Also of note is there are no permanent weigh stations in PA, only portables they set up in rest areas and occasionally targeted locations. For example they have been known to setup at the turnpike exits for Maple Grove Raceway or Carlisle for the car shows.
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