Sometimes i feel uncomfortable

Personally I think its a good thing, complacency breeds errors.

 

I treat coil like im hauling glass. The only difference is that glass break on impact with my rear of my cab while coil just keeps moving on.

 

I'm not a flatbedder, but coils look extremely scary to me. Stating the obvious here, but I think they deserve caution and respect.

 

This. It's all good.

I've been doing steel tube and raw steel bar for over a year and a half now and I still have an uneasy feeling when I hop into the truck after it's all done and start rolling. Even though I've got 12 straps on a 45k load and a 4x4 bulkhead in front, there is still some potential for catastrophe. And more and more drivers these days either don't know, or don't care and that's a problem.

 

Its called "good fear". I'm pretty sure anybody working in very high risk situations should have "good fear". I was like that when I worked in the oil refinery. I would read the injury reports the ones that don't make news to let me be very aware of the dangerous environment I'm in. I had "good fear" for the environment. It is good. I'm sure you have seen the devastation a coil can do when it breaks loose.

 

Hey Gunner, that probaby has somewhat to do with where you got your initial flatbed training. I worked for that company too. For almost 17 years. Can't count the number of trainees I had that where absolutely terrified to haul a "big bertha" coil. They pound that in pretty hard during load securement training. That being said, there is nothing wrong with being aware of your load and how the trailer is responding to it.