Broken dunnage hauling coils?

Picked up some aluminum coils in Texarkana. Short trip to Memphis delivering in the morning. Stopped and did a load check, cranked down a bit more and carried on down the road. About 20 minutes later I heard a loud snap, sounded like a broken bone. Pulled my ### over to check on the load and the dunnage on a 12k coil in the back of a set of 3 coils snapped right in half. Chains held it, though the back chain was extremely loose. Coil is currently sitting on the deck.

so a few questions…

1. The load is tarped. Crank that down and play stupid when I get to the customer in the morning?

2. Did I just buy 12,000 lb of aluminum?

3. has anyone ever had good oak 4x4 snap in half under so little stress?

4. Do I need to call a crane to lift that crap up and fix it or should I just revert to 1?

 

probably so. That or just a knot in the dunnage. Was literally brand new oak 4x4x8.

mostly just concerned about the cost of the coil and/or a crane in a rain storm in Arkansas now.

 

Yea I will get out there and take some in the morning when it’s not raining. Or when I’m pulling a tarp off of it for a crane to lift it and fix the dunnage situation.

disappointing I know. Lol

 

A. And closer to no than yes. Interesting and I’m guessing probably expensive lesson. A lesson to be dealt with tomorrow, but a lesson none the less. Still planning on playing stupid at the receiver though. “Oh no how did that happen…” or just not say anything at all…

could get lucky. I once hauled some eye to the sky coils on skids to California and the fork driver put a fork through the side of one of the coils and immediately signed the paperwork and said I won’t say anything if you won’t. Not my coils buddy set them on fire for all I care.