The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

####! I see a Conestoga curtain laying on the road but no straps?? Wonder if that dude sent those A frames down the road with no securement

 

Unsecured freight in a conestoga? No way somebody would ever do that.

 

Gravity works fine until it doesn’t.

 

It's that lazy mentality that the conestoga curtains will hold everything in. Recently here in Washington there was a conestoga that was full of lumber and no straps. At a stop light all the lumber came spilling off onto a car next to it killing the driver. It's no wonder insurance rates keep going up...

 

Yes, but if they did a good job. Those busses are full of used tires and concrete.

 

Used to load drywall out of CertainTeed in Seattle and watch curtain vans buckle their sides and take off.

Idaho and Oregon got on a kick back in the day and were making people open their sides so they could see the securement.

 

There was a member on this forum a couple years back that said it was perfectly fine to haul palletizing freight in a Conestoga with no securement. Said he had been doing it for years without a problem !

 

I do not agree. But the amount of metal. Skidded, slit, palletized that moved in a sidekit or Conestoga between Pittsburgh and Cleveland to Detroit would upset you. Again. I'm not saying that it's ok.. But it's the world we live in.

 

well somebody aint getting their kitchen countertops this week .

 

I see a small red V edge protectors, maybe he wasn’t totally stupid