A roadside station where commercial vehicles are required to stop and be inspected, thus protecting the road from travel by overweight or unsafe vehicles.
Example sentencesExamples
As of this writing, I am currently living with my parents in Chicago, Illinois, after just moving back from California (no laughing, it's only a weigh station for the next month or so).
Witnesses say that they saw it pass by a weigh station at high speed.
Unless you're dumping recyclables (which are free), you have to go through the weigh station as you go in and as you leave.
Truck weigh stations, which service almost 21,000 vehicles daily, were also upgraded.
We should force everybody - not just semi trucks - to stop at weigh stations.
If a truck came in and there was no-one at the weigh station, Hugh would go out and do it.
His delivery truck stopped at a state weigh station.
We had heard accounts of hitchhikers being taken from trucks at weigh stations and just placed on the first Greyhound bus heading in any direction.
It will be loaded onto a flatbed truck and weighed at the weigh station off of Elwood Drive.
Only a fool, weight enforcement officers say, knowingly drives an overweight truck into a weigh station.
Definition of weigh station in US English:
weigh station
noun
A roadside station where commercial vehicles are required to stop and be inspected, thus protecting the road from travel by overweight or unsafe vehicles.
Example sentencesExamples
Unless you're dumping recyclables (which are free), you have to go through the weigh station as you go in and as you leave.
As of this writing, I am currently living with my parents in Chicago, Illinois, after just moving back from California (no laughing, it's only a weigh station for the next month or so).
Truck weigh stations, which service almost 21,000 vehicles daily, were also upgraded.
If a truck came in and there was no-one at the weigh station, Hugh would go out and do it.
It will be loaded onto a flatbed truck and weighed at the weigh station off of Elwood Drive.
We should force everybody - not just semi trucks - to stop at weigh stations.
His delivery truck stopped at a state weigh station.
Only a fool, weight enforcement officers say, knowingly drives an overweight truck into a weigh station.
Witnesses say that they saw it pass by a weigh station at high speed.
We had heard accounts of hitchhikers being taken from trucks at weigh stations and just placed on the first Greyhound bus heading in any direction.