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A portable weigh station will soon make its appearance on Tehachapi-Willow Springs Road, which will tag those truckers hauling questionable weight while trying to bypass the Cache Creek weigh station located on Highway 58. In a move to achieve tighter control, Kern County second district supervisor Don Maben requested the deal between Kern County Roads Department and the California Highway Patrol.“I made the request with CHP personnel over a year ago to have a portable weigh station installed on Tehachapi-Willow Springs Road and when the contract went out to resurface the roads in that area, it seemed like the opportune time,” Maben said. “I instructed roads to include the portable station as part of the contract.”Some trucks, traveling west from Mojave, have been able to avoid the Cache Creek scales by using the back roads through the windmills. Trucks eastbound on Highway 58 are generally stopped and weighed at the Keene scales.Maben said as the resurfacing...
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