Straps on rub rail or underneath (trailer permitting)?

I had a flag i think thats why he pulled me over.. I always do it out of habit anything overhanging. Been rearended this year already in california . Dont need the liability some dumb ### lawyer saying it shouldve been flagged when his deceased client decapitates himself on the overhang

 

Do yall know why it's called a rub rail?

Because its meant to be used to protect the straps. NOT to hook the straps to. I don't care what anyone says, if a trailer goes over with a load that has any kind of weight to it, that rub rail WILL rip off the trailer and the load will come off the trailer. Those rails are NOT designed to hold 40+ thousand lbs of whatever is on your trailer.

Hook your strap to the underside of the trailer. Strap your load for the wreck, not the ride.

 

Some rub rails are rated for securement . Some trailers have no option other than hook to rub rail.

 

Depends on the trailer, I call the rub rail a tarp bar. Some or most trailers say that the tarp bar is NOT for load securement. I never use it, I personally think it screams western express. If the trailer doesn't have hooks underneath I use J-hooks

 

Have Fontaine trailers with the machined rails. They are rated for securement. It is really the only choice die to the location of the winch tracks.

 

If your trailer goes over, the rubrail is probably the Least of your concerns. “Don’t use the rubrail, use the part of the trailer that the rubrail is welded to 100 plus times”

Doesn’t make much sense to me.

 

It sure does matter. Wrapped around a thin flat piece of aluminum or steel that has a bunch of single pass welds or hooked to a solid part of the trailer where the only failure point is the strap?

 

How do you think the sides of the trailer are attached to the crossmembers? 6 pass fillet welds? Or are you saying to run your straps all the way to the frame?

 

Do your winches ride in a sliding track? What's it rated for? About the same as any trailer with a load rated rub rail.

 

I wish you guys wouldn’t badmouth the DOT officers...my girlfriend is married to one