When I hauled lumber we were taught that straps should be flat and tight enough so that you could pluck em and hear a tone.
Saw this on the NYT. Any thoughts?
Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by bobtrucks2204, Sep 21, 2014.
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It looks like it's stone not lumber, so cranking down on it until you here a tone would probably result in damaged product.
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Lots of people put a twist on their straps, they are less affected by wind if you do so.
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When I hauled lumber and pallets all the guys I drove with put a twist in them. Like Ubu said, less affected by wind or something of that nature. Not out of the ordinary at all.
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I always put a twist in the straps too, but now some gung-ho DOT officers are giving tickets for that. They say the twist creates a stress point in the strap.
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And here we go again to twist or not.
I know Dow insulation south of St.Louis, wont' let you out of the gate, unless you have twists on both sides of the trailer on every strap. I tried arguing this with them and did no good.skellr, dirtyrabbit, n3ss and 2 others Thank this. -
first time i tried the twist, had a couple actually blow backwards.
only time i twist is the tall loads that like to settle. see no need on them short solid loads. and defenitly see no need for a gun ho ticket.
i was up in washington, rolling through ellensburg, some trucker got on the cb about my straps. another trucker said he had 2 drivers get tickets in washington. so rarely do i twist. -
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the load was delicate. can't snug em down like a load of wood. but they were tight. to the point of breaking the load.
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