The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

A minor fail on the lowboy (he is in the median) but wild fail on the dry van. In the video, it appears both frame rails are intact, they actually sheared the wheel straps and jumped the van over the rails allowing it to pass thru the dry van. Just found it interesting after our discussion about vans and their various structural components.

 

That’s easy
He’s trying to keep the frame from breaking in half

 

Half of the van is in a makeshift garage, it aint all bad .

 

Tire in 3rd photo looks like its been beat to hell .

 

I'm always amazed at guys doing stuff like this when it's maybe 50% less work to just do it the right way.. lol

 

Kid says it was an older white guy in a nice looking 379 ! Maybe a bored reefer guy

 

I used that method when hauling plate steel and there was no room above the rails for binders and I didn't want to untarp to tighten chains

 

Never thought of that. I have fairly limited flatbed experience compared to most in this site so it looked sketchy to me. Learn something new everyday I guess.

 

It’s definitely not the normal way to do things…on an all aluminum trailer I would be a little concerned that the dings and scars on the bottom beam flange might eventually end in a crack….on that combo trailer it’s just paint

 

I guess my short stint as an open decker sorta turned me into a tarp snob. Bad tarping jobs just stand out like a sore thumb to me. My tarp skills weren’t the best but I felt my tarping was respectable but this, just DANG!