Maverick: Want to hear why people are quiting

I know, I've worked alongside of Maverick drivers to know. I have not seen "allowed" in his post though, but it could be there. Just pay attention to Maverick straps, if there are some twisted straps on their trailers, they are few and far between. I don't have knowledge on helical ribs, those are finer aerodynamics effect and I'm talking abut crude stuff, like strong wind blowing on a side of your trailer and causing layover or wind blowing in the back of your trailer and keeping you safe. The point is - the more of surface area wind meets, the stronger pressure it exerts on the object.

 

We used to haul big square and also round straw bails to the mushroom plant years ago. One twist on each side always eliminated straps flopping. Straight straps would flop if the wind could get under them because of the way a bale was if it wasn't a good squared up load job. I'll never use straps without one twist. See it when guys load containers on step decks and flat strap them. The life of the strap goes down a few years from flopping. One twist is all it takes.

 

Bernoulli's Principle

Bernoulli's principle, a fundamental law of fluids in motion, states that when flow speed increases, pressure decreases and vice versa. An airplane wing is designed so that air will flow more rapidly over the upper surface than the lower one, decreasing the pressure on the top surface and increasing the pressure on the bottom surface. This difference in pressure provides the lift that keeps the airplane in flight.



Drag is a force that acts against objects moving through air. The jet engine or the propellers of an airplane must provide enough thrust force to overcome drag. Streamlining the airplane body significantly reduces drag forces.












I just wanted to chime in and seem smart.

 

Smarter than me. I thought E = MC Hammer

 

Twisted strap remind an airplane wing profile (at certain places) while lift effect on a flat strap is much smaller.

Twisted straps reduce flapping, not because of the invisible magic of twisting, but because you applied additional tension by twisting a strap. You could apply even more tension (eliminating flap) using a winch bar, but it could damage a load or strap would keep on getting loose under excessive tension. Another thing - tension on winch side of a strap is always greater than that on the hook side of a strap. So you could have too much pressure on winch side and too little on the hook side, under this unique circumstance, twisting hook side strap will balance tension on both sides better.

Here is landing gear analogy: Winch bar - High Gear, Twist - Low Gear.

Normally, there is no trouble to eliminate excessive flap without twisting on loads of well baled hay. Famous flapping is mostly heard on the loosely strapped loads of insulation and sheet rock. Drivers are sheet-less scared of having load damage on their DAC to the point of close to zero tension on a strap. And twisted straps under no tension flap just as much. If you are afraid of the damage, you better tarp straps over instead of doing the twisting.

 

So what about Maverick?

 

I think the smartest thing you ever did was to go pulling a box. I've been behind people like you at Majestic and like you I mean slow. Some people never get the efficiency down Pat in securing and tarping. That's okay that's why there's door swingers.

 

I trained a guy (when I worked for Boyd) who told me he was rejected by Maverick because of his car parking ticket. They are not desperate for drivers that's for sure. Personally, Maverick, TMC are little bit on the nazi side as for my taste. I would rather have 2 cpm cut than work in a super controlled environment.

 

Rocket science aside speaking from practical experience here flap never was a problem with twisted straps on straw. Even if they were a little loose, which we always stopped twice on trips up there to check/re-tighten.

 

With a good load of a couple of coils (that you must have had) I could wrap it up in under an hour. I would want to look at a pro like you securing 5 coils (racks), 6 coils (stacked 3 high), 2 sets of 5 layers high sheets. I want to see a pro like you doing that in less than an hour, actually I've seen speedy "pros" like you in action making all kind of short cuts to save 30 minutes (max), no thanks. And no I was not blocking you, normally they direct people with the most labor intensive loads to the left side, in left front corner of warehouse.

Again, you make all kind of BS assumption to feel better about yourself.