Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

It looks like you did the best you could. Honestly, it looks like that wood used was pine, not something harder, which is always going to splinter under just strapping tight. Hardwood is best desired, expensive, but that's the cost of doing business. That being said, since they do it enough, they should be having custom spacers built of wood that allow it to straddle the frame beneath it and above it, allowing both to be immobilized with strapping alone.

You were correct to belly wrap over the second level, and strap the top because of the heights of the stack, so that part is done properly and per regs at minimum, so there shouldn't have been anything you did...unfortunately, we're held accoutable once it's on our truck, and refusing an improperly secured load by the shipper although warranted, doesn't get done enough to make it obvious to them to stop taking the cheap and hazardous way. With that load, something as simple as 3 pieces of wood per spacer, formed like an 'H' could have done the job, secured around the frame with that plastic tie material, which they seem to have had no problem deploying on the axles themselves. Better would be router made blocks that cradle and contain each frame and axle.

skallagrime's suggestion has merit also, but as he points out, that's a lot of straps needed to fully unitize that load that most drivers won't have on hand when they go to load as Kshaw0960 mentions.

Good job with what you had to do, driver. The best options is to let your carrier know to inform this shipper, if you haul them regularly (which doen't appear the case), that any future loads would need to be properly packaged when loaded, which is the shipper's responsibility, that you're supposed to enforce. Refusing this load as it was, would have been about the only option if they were unwilling to follow your suggestions. You didn't know, so consider this a lesson for the future, or carry 100 straps on your truck, of varying widths and lengths.

 

loaded for friday am
See if i can't sneak a picture at delivery for yall

 

Looks like this week will be my second most profitable week in the full 7 days. Brought those steel octagon poles back up to the power plant in WY for a cool $4.04 a mile and managed a sweet Halliburton load back and then a little shuttle back home.

These drums make me nervous but with a pallet on top I think it’s the best way unless you have long wooden vboards. Powder thankfully not liquid. Only 41k lbs.

 

Used to haul a lot of molly like that. As long as the drums are banded together and then the pallets are banded together, then tight packed. you should be fine with what you have done. Never seemed to have problems with this, actually was a good ride.

 

Albany to Schenectady today 3 times. Two @ 60’, one @ 50’

 

18000 lb brake press was hiding under the tarp. Had a nice quiet drive to Savannah, TN from west of Chicago.

 

Your tastes in trucks exceed excellent.

 

55gal drums are riding good. However just about every 12” edge protector is bent so badly I’m probably going to have to toss half of them in the trash. I’ve gone through like 10 or more in 6 months and now another 10+. I think I’m not going to replace them and just stick with the little 6” ones and then buy a bunch of the 36” ones for delicate stuff like insulation instead.

 

Unless they are cracked, let them sit in the sun. When they get hot, they can be straightened.