Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

That's where he's at his best.

He did sneak in that 300 page comment though and noone called him out @Kenworth6969

 

But a dryvan load of the same stuff is .40cpm cheaper.

 

They are being used today. Do you not look at rail cars? Back when I was pulling flatbed the particle board plant in Missoula was using plastic and metal bands to load flat cars because it was easier than trying to load long units of shelving in box cars.

Opendeck containers are the same way. They don’t use straps, they use bands. And anything that needs protected from the weather is plastic wrapped. When I was in Hawaii we’d deliver flat deck containers from the port. They’d come from who knows where in WA and ride the boat from Tacoma and we’d get them the plastic was still intact and the bands were tight.

As for why they don’t do it for everything, my guess is time and cost. Seeing how long it took them to do a rail car in Missoula it would really only be realistic for drop and hook operations.

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/taZCjAori0o?feature=share

No idea what this is, but it’s wrapped and secured with banding similar to what I was talking about.

 

@Kenworth6969 wouldn’t be hard to use a pressure sensor on flat bed to detect strap tension. Hell even a system installed on a flatbed can warn drivers that a strap is loose.

wait and see at the end of this recession if more and more politicians arnt advocating for driverless trucks.

Gooberment isn’t willing to tell Tesla to stop using their autopilot even with the crashes. Knowing full well that it needs to be tested on roads and is coming. Neither political group has even tried to stop autonomous vehicle development.

that should tell you something.

 

I agree. It's still way over priced. At least things seem to be heading in the direction of sanity again though.