headboard/cab rack

I agree they're probably a good idea but it all depends on what your hauling. If your pulling a RGN with a bulldozer a headache rack is pointless, same with coils. But with logs or beams they might at least slow the load down.






I mean all these had bulkheads and you can see the end result.

 

Oooooh Those are ugly! I'm guessing that they were all the result of having a collision combined with improper load securement????


I'm mulling over a deal right now with a company that's just a couple of miles from my house. It'd be some pretty dang good paying step deck work, which I've never really done. In looking at things to haul besides their stuff, I keep seeing coils. I'm SURE I'd end up hauling coils at some point. These pictures make me think that if I go ahead and get the authority and buy the trailer, I'm gonna be a real load securement Nazi.

I guess when it comes to flat deck work, I'll always think of an old man I was talking to at a receiver one time. I was peddling a couple of LTL skids and he had been chaining up in 100+ degree heat. What he said always kinda stuck with me because he was a jovial, real pleasant kind of fellow and I thought it was a little funny at the time. He told me, "There's no such thing as too much overkill." I don't know why it struck me then as funny, but he had been driving longer than I had been taking oxygen into my lungs, so I listened to what he had to tell me about a few different things. I guess in his years, he probably had seen some scenes such as this and ran his skateboard with that in mind.

If I buy a step deck, I'll do the same thing.

 

You might check with your customers before leaving the headache rack off. It just depends on what your hauling, most pipe yards I have been to will turn you away if you don't have one.

A headache rack might not stop something from coming threw the bunk and cab but it will dam sure slow it done so you can jump.

 

No longer required since Load Securement Standard 10 came into effect.

Word of advice.... I've hauled pipe, steel, heavy equipment all my life and I would still have a headache rack on my trucks.

I have a Certificate to teach Trainers in Load Securement and can tell you that Standard 10 is not fool proof.

 

You need a tie down as per the following:

2 toedowns for the 1st 10 feet and one additional tie down for each additional 10 feet or portion thereof.

ie; That's FOR evey 10 feet, not AT every 10 feet.

Example, you have a load of pipe that is 50 feet long. It would require 6 tie downs. You could have 3 of those withing the 1st 12 feet and have the balance at the opposite end with the same spacing as the front.

 

Better safe than sorry.

The cemetery is full of dead heroes.

 

You don't think a 1/4 thick piece of aluminum on the back of your cab is going to stop a 80k mill roll shaped like a missile?

This guy rear ended the truck in front of him. NO bulkhead is going to withstand that, and I don't think you could put enough chains on anything to keep the load in place.

 

Thats good if your hauling full lengh loads but every load is diffrent, on lumber loads you need 3 on the 1st bundle if under a certin lenght more if over i think the lengh is 16ft and with palletized loads you need 2 on the 1st row. I allways use extra to be safe.