The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

Wow that's impressively bad. That is one strong sign arch to take that kind of impact. Looks like he ripped out the hydraulics and most of the frame.

 

This happened in Nisku Alberta today, just by the petro pass cardlock. Fortunately for him he would have been going relatively slow in that area.

Driver didn't have any straps belly wrapped, and only the minimum required for load securement.

Lucky the pipe behind his head stopped, only pipe going through were the ones at the window.

 

Excavators on step decks isn’t a problem, if you measure your height and load it the right way. How’s it possibly many people have loaded then on steps and never had an issue? Keen, daily, Wylie, etc have been loading excavators and medium wheel loaders on steps since I was a kid and beyond that. I named those 3 just because they were easy to come to mind. Equipments been hauled on steps since equipment and steps were created. It’s the drivers responsibility for load safety and height check and securment.

 

I am amazed at the lack of forward movement prevention of all kinds of flatbed loads. Doesn't matter how tight and how many restraints you put over laterally, there are circumstances where the load will just slip through.

If that was my load, in the absence of a movable strong and fixed headboards, I would have put a large rolled up sheet/tarp (or 2) over the front of all those with straps crossed over it and anchored at least 2 and 6 feet back from the load head.

However, I do acknowledge that in the EU with shorter trailers and robust headboard this is sometimes not necessary. Consideration for the weight distribution over the axles, is, well, not even a consideration. It is almost impossible to overload the axles on a 14 metre triaxle trailer, so we crammed everything up against the headboard.

This is a picture which, thanks to me, bounced over the Atlantic and now bounces back again. Diesel Dave took the principle to heart with this front cross. At first I chundered to myself 'I would have put a sheet there to protect the straps' and then I had a closer look, Chains not straps.


Can't make the image work. Anybody? I can drive a truck but this stuff sometimes beats me.

Try this instead:
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Yes it was , I've signed Georgia in black and never heard anything about it. But Alabama on the other hand would give you a hard time for sure.

 

A+ for load weight distribution. A+ for cribbing in the right places (most of what I see no one knows how to do that). F- in strapping.

 

Im about to talk outta my ### cause my mouth knows better . Why isn't the height of the load measured ? It'd be easy one of those folding aluminum measureing sticks that fold out at a 90° on the top . Like an upsidedown L .

 

Oh come on now! That would be common sense and besides, buying one of those would cut into the flip flop budget .

 

Most of them are fiberglass nowadays. Every new carhauler comes with a brand new one, but that doesn't mean they get used. Part of that, at least in Colorado where I'm usually working, is that they load taller than the 15' stick we use can measure, so they don't bother. I figure a fair segment of the oversize guys are of a similar mindset.

 

Our measure stick is 15', often we are loaded to 17'. So I use a tape measure from deck to ground, then the stick from deck to tip of load...works out close enough that I know if I'm at that 17' mark and I route accordingly.