The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

If one strap is enough for a coil than tarps are just fine laying there as is

 

Let me add... at the port in Savannah( the one on Lathrop Avenue) before they stopped shipping break bulk/ freight to that port, those guys were moving coils like that with 1-2 straps all day every day. Now granted, they were only moving them to a warehouse a few miles down the road but, one day DOT was sitting outside the port and nailed a bunch of those guys.....

 

Dodging aluminum channel pieces after this gguyy

 

Don’t know if New York does. Been at least 15 years since hauling steel in that state, didn’t need one then, things could have changed. Maybe they watched what happened in Alabama and decided it was just not worth the time and money.

 

Alabama use to, but it impeded interstate commerce so they had to stop doing it. Personally I think people worry way too much about what the other guy is doing.

 

I have more chains, straps on my 18’ bumper pull trailer. Hauled tractors over 10k lbs. *yes slightly heavy* in my teens grade 43 chain, 20s grade 80 stuff. Coils 2 chains/straps just moving to tarp area.
More than once told I used too many chains, straps. “The law is minimum. I never have needed a tow truck to put load back”. Chains, binders suffer almost zero wear used correctly. Straps wear. But only bad if I use them wrong. Otherwise good for decade. Darn cheap.

 

Yeah whats with it when guys say someone is oversecuring something... I had a jb hunt driver tell me that earlier this year . On a 15k coil i put 3 chains in it.. had a stand up coil behind it and some flat metal in front. Said i was way oversecured and he dont like to do that much work because it wears him out... I just looked at him like wtf. Didnt even know what to say to that