Chain tray

Milk crates for straps works well.
But also, what do you haul that requires you to lug 32 straps around all the time? I carry extras but only carry 20 (9 truly in use)

 

Dedicated most of the time. Steel up to Portland then plywood back to SLC. Just use the 10 blue straps that are 15 foot. Red ones are spare for just in case

 

I’ve used milk crates before. Just wanted something more permanent that wasn’t going to move around and something easy to just grab what I needed.

 

I used to use old rotella oil jugs.

Holds one chain each..

 

Did you always have them in a side box, or are you taking them off of a headache rack and putting them in a side box? Thinking about how much weight is being transferred from the hanging hook and chain weight in a headache rack box as compared to the concentrated weight of all the chain being in a compact space.

 

I keep 8 16’ 3/8” chains in a 12” step box. Never had any real issues. Lots of company’s keep chains in trailer boxes. COTC has 700+ trucks pulling flatbeds and none of them have headache racks. They keep everything in the trailer boxes.

 

True, but none of the one's I drove for did. They always had a headache rack/chain tray, or trailer bulkhead for storing chains and equipment, so I was just curious for comparison of weight difference if Rubber duck kw was changing locations, but after re-reading, it appears he probably had them in a side box as well.

 

The tray weight isnt the worry.

A non reinforced bottom of the sidebox will do this

 

My box actually says the weight rating is 320lb distributed evenly. Highway Products.