2025 Basic Truck Weighing 101
DATE(s):
October 29 – 30, 2025
08:00 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION(s):
Hampton Roads Planning District Commission
The Board Room, 723 Woodlake Drive, Chesapeake, VA
Class Schedule:
Date(s):
LOCATION(s):
Class Schedule:
February 20 – 21, 2024
08:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Day 1
0800 – 1000
Introduction to Portable Scales,
Bridge Formula / Bridge Law
State Codes for Weights
1000 – 1100
How to Use Haenni Wheel Load Weighers
1100 – 1200
How to Weigh a Vehicle
1200 – 1230
How to Fill Out An Overweight Citation and What To Do With It
1230 – 1330
Lunch
1330 – 1430
Work Projects, Calculations
1430 – 1500
Exempt Permits
1500 – 1700
Additional Work Projects
Day 2
0800 – 1100
Blanket Hauling Permits, escort vehicles, Super-Loads and
Over-Dimensional Loads Hauling Regulations
1100 – 1200
Case Reviews and Preparation for Prosecutions
1200 – 1300
Lunch
1300 – 1330
Testing
1330 – 1400
Certificates, class roundup, Field Operations Instructions
1500 – 1700
Field Weighing: Monitor-Merrimac Bridge Tunnel (Suffolk side)
This training is targeted to active law enforcement officers, prosecuting attorneys, hauling permit technicians and agents of size and weight laws.
For more information, contact one of the following:
Officer F. Dean Godwin, [email protected]
Registration cutoff date October 1, 2025.
Sponsored by
Drive Safe Hampton Roads’ “Specialized Transportation Safety LEO Committee”
and the Newport News Police Department.