No thanks even with a 100 nails holding things down I was still worried if I got brake checked I’d get smushed.
Isn't securement in a dry van supposed to be the same as a flatbed?
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Unloaded a 53 footer loaded with skids of construction equipment last summer. Heaviest skids at the front were 2,500 lbs each. No securement whatsoever. That seems SUPER janky.
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At that point straps and blocks aren’t enough. I thought of chain wells. Without a frame, what good are they? How do you secure paper rolls in a van? Impossible. Things need to be blocked up against the nose. Stacks of pallets, whatever. So it can’t move forward in the first place.
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No coils, but I hauled a very large bull gear in a reefer once. It was around 7 feet in diameter and probably weighed close to 6,000 pounds. It was perfectly safe though, there were 12 pallets of broccoli in front of it.
Had to deliver the gear first and air out the trailer pretty good before delivering the broccoli because I picked up the used gear at a mine in Nevada and it stunk to high heaven.
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I hauled this 52k pound load of glass (it was the lightest on of the day) in a dry van with only one 5/16 chain loosely pulling back on each of the 3 racks. Nothing but your driving skills keeping the racks in place side to side. Doesn’t matter much with glass, if you slam on the brakes, it’s all coming forward, usually in a million pieces.
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Yeah the soda can walls of a 53ft trailer is going to keep all that inside.
Kinda shows what a joke the DOT regulations actually are.
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The racks are similar to this step deck set up, except the straps attach to the rack itself.Kyle G., cke and God prefers Diesels Thank this. -
Drybox is pretty much foreign to me now, but I'm sure there's van trailers that have sunken securement points built into the floor, for tie-down. I think this is just a case of wrong equipment (trailer) for the job. Regulation-wise, I'm a flatdecker and it's been too long since pulling a box, to know if it's legal. I would be very cautious driving though.
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Yeah I did LTL some years ago and this particular co. loaded 6-8" pipe about 20 ft lengths on the floor with one end under a pallet completely un-secured, usually a cluster of about 20 pipes in a bundle. Maybe 2 bundles mixed in with various other LTL goodies. And these loads came down from Bay area to San Diego ! I was glad I was only running around locally with these loads. Made sure to make them my first stop.
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