How to secure paper rolls to satisfy DOT?

That's why J B sold his tankers; too many drownings when installing load locks!

 

Right after they started talking about securement; The carrier I was with had a container stopped after leaving the shipper; DOT was looking to see how that shipper had secured the product. Resealed and on to the pier and customs with no proiblems.

 

Load securement is important, even when hauling livestock.

 

I’ve witnessed Florida DOT open sealed reefer trailers before.

 

DOT won’t break seals during an inspection. They technically can, but it never happens. Usually only police or border patrol if you give permission or a drug dog alerts.

Secondly, I worked for international paper for 5 years and I’ve had big paper rolls slide forward once. Car cut me off and I had to hit the brakes a little hard. Rolls slide forward and busted the rivets about 2’ long on the bottom of the wall and bowed outward about 3”

 

Last company I hauled a fair number of paper loads from different places. Didn't seem to be any sort of standard for securement. Some used those gravity mats I think, they looked like shingles. Some had me put straps in. One nailed boards down. I think one place used sand or sawdust, though may be thinking of a different customer. One time I hauled rolls in a reefer, just used a bunch of load bars. Did any of this matter? Idk but never had a claim or anything.

 

Those mats are made of ground up tires, I think, and I took a bunch home. Worked better than cardboard.

 

I wouldn't haul them if they were that high and stacked in the middle with nothing to brace them. I would worry about hitting an S curve in a work zone and dumping it and killing someone.

I have to have them loaded so they can't tip over and smash through the wall of the trailer.

 

The only thing that prevents those companies from loading those paper rolls safe is GREED.

They should be loaded like this, strapped, not on a flatbed, but see how these are tied down and on racks under them and it makes it harder to tip over: