The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

I have seen them wrapped with netting but mostly they were piled onto empty pallets on the deck and need airflow to keep them from "cooking" from spontaneous heating and protection from rain.
I used to prefer manual stacking because they rode better because they were tighter packed and that stopped gaps that allowed movement on the road.

 

Speaking of onions, poor guy at the first rest area coming into Mo. today was re-stacking his onion load. I was in my POV and past the exit when I noticed him or would have pulled up and helped. He had bags of onions all over the deck.

 

The end is near……….

 

Well that front bumper is as good as gone

 

The first jobsite he gets to , hes gonna have to strap down half of his body panels to the trailer and take em back to the yard

 

Lost his chains perhaps?

 

Had one of the worst days of my life today. My first accident. Came over a hill in rural Texas to find a car making a left turn stopped waiting for oncoming traffic to pass. Had to hit the brake, pretty hard but not max stopping or anything, tires never came close to skidding. Next thing I know I have my steel pipe ramming itself into the back of my cab. I am shocked that is all it took as I have hauled many pipe loads. Pretty sure I am legal on the strap count but legal wasn't good enough. Even now I as check the load (with more straps added and tightened at the max possible limit someone what I weigh can do) I am not confident the same thing couldn't happen again. The straps are just touching the top of all the joints in the middle and that is not doing anything.

Feeling pretty low but I am posting this here to learn and maybe help others learn from my mistakes. Id like constructive criticism but the "you shouldn't have a cdl" people can stay out. Hope I don't regret sharing.

 

You need to have some straps wrapping around the load. I call them belly wraps. They squeeze the load together, if it starts to move forward they will usually squeeze even tighter.

 

That sucks man!! Glad you lived to tell the tale.