fork in a van

Yes, under the minimum on propane.

 

Do you have chain tie downs in your floor? Otherwise I dont think I would do it

 

Just nail stop blocks in both side of the wheels, its how they ship alot of them

 

If I could not chain it down, I would not haul it. Just me.

 

I've seen a few that had forks sticking out the front of the trailer. Why wouldn't they load them backwards?

 

Gotta go with your own call agreed. But a cart of flag poles at better than 3 grand is only blocked in, same with most stand up style forks. If you have e tracks and ratcheting straps you can x strap for and aft for saftey but other than entire loads going flat, i have never seen any fork get chained. Not for ltl work as not many people have chain tails in the floor of a van, let alone the chains and binders. At least around here.

 

Because the dock worker is more interested in getting stuff on the truck, than in loading it right.

We used to haul a whole lot of rental equipment back and forth between stores. If it would fit on a pup, it went on a pup. Everything from Wacker compactors to light bar trailers. This stuff was hard to secure, and if it wasn't secured it would move around. We usually used dunnage or other freight to block it in, as the trailer it was picked up on, was seldom, if ever the trailer it stayed on until delivery. It could be moved between different trailers at each dock it went through. A real PITA!

Another one that was a real PITA were wire spools. Those huge metal, frame "wheels" that bulk thick gauge wire is wrapped on. They had to be secured, and often just blocking them in was not sufficient. One of our (lazy) guys didn't bother with restraints on one, and it went through the roll up door. But of course, it got hung up and didn't come clear out of the trailer. A fun time was had by all with that one, since he was way out in the country when it happened. He said he was unable to get it back in, or get it off the truck. I don't know how they ever figured that one out, as I wasn't involved in the mess.

 

My company was moving one to another terminal in a van. Secured with blocks and straps( no tie downs for chains.) thankfully the state trooper was far enough back that when the lift came crashing through the back door and on the interstate he was able to stop in time. Should never move them in a van, IMO.