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That’s about the scariest thing I’ve seen on here. Only one strap. Wow I hope he doesn’t make a quick stop.

 

I'd say the bad thing would be an innocent gettin killt , as for the driver , sometimes ya just gotta let Darwinism play out .

 

While I don’t agree with straps on steel, there is nothing in the regulations that say you have to use any specific securement device. Only that it is secured to the minimum requirement for all three axes.

 

Straps thru suicide coils are not legal

 

It absolutely is. It might be against a company policy some place but it is not illegal.

393.120(c) is the specific law covering securement of suicide coils. It says TIEDOWN all the way through not a single mention of chains.

 

Well ####.. for some reason i always thought they were illegal

 

Different rules for under 5,000 pounds.

A single strap may be okay for 1,000 pound coil but not a 30,000 pound one.

 

I never said anything about the number of straps he used. I was only responding to @D.Tibbitt comment about chains vs straps.

How about all that loose dunnage and tarps on the deck. Not to mention the stacks of containers in the background and the guard shack with barbed wire right behind the truck. Maybe something about the fact that there's 80K+ lbs of steel coils on the deck.

Hmm could those pictures maybe be taken in the yard of a company somewhere where he's just throwing a couple straps to move it slowly across the lot? If thats the case then the securement laws dont matter because he's on private property.