Which really is just a revenue game but one with a good eough pretext you can sell it to average dumbass voter. All the "serious" overloading is non-CDL box trucks anyway and has been forever. The road scales are easily gamed, or just avoided.

> The road scales are easily gamed, or just avoided.

How are they easily gamed, without being able to shift the load as you roll over the scale?

And, at least in California, the scales are placed so that, to avoid them, you have to add a bunch of time to most routes.