How Would You Have Loaded..

We haul apples in totes from out near Rochester and Buffalo back towards the Hudson River. First Load I ever picked up the farmer loading me said the way he recommends is never strap the totes right over the middle as it will crush the sides of them. He said go over the cornerposts of the totes. So I put two straps over the front row which is 4 totes, one over the front corner and one over the rear. Then for the rest of them I Just went over the back corners, except the rear which I did just the like the front. I have seen other guys just throw the strap right over the middle and it crushed the totes down. I never had a problem, this was on a stepdeck w/ 52 totes per load. The truck I was running has a permit for 102,000 So I probably could have went 3 high on the bottom deck but he wouldnt load me that way. It is a little hairy hauling open top totes but you just need to be cautious.

 

Wooden crates..... only way I'd have hauled it was 1 high, nothing stacked on top at all. If they wanted to ship them more than 1 high then they could have found another truck. Not worth the time, hassle or tickets.

 

It all seems to be dangerous to me.

 

stacking wooden crates isnt a problem at all, you just belly strap the bootom ones. but the op is talking about apple bins not wooden crates.


it like anything else, secure it right and ya got not problems. give a good flatbedder enough straps chains and tarps and bungee cords and he can haul water, loose.

 

ROFLMAO.

As the NavigatorWife mentioned earlier, and depending on the actual containers. No pictures, so guessing on their strength here... first order of business.. vee boards.. lock the crates together. Double strap front and back each trailer. If the "boxes or pallets" as he mentions are pallets with extending rigid wooden pallets they need to be chained front and back each, otherwise if he just means the "crate" itself, then tarp and bungee each trailer load then strap the tarp over the veeboard locked crates (should allow decent tightening even in the middle with the vee board there). Then a final X pattern of straps front and back each.

Is this what you were thinking about skateboardman?

 

those wooden apple crates sit inside each other where the top one sits on the bottom, just run x straps across the front and maybe one around the front bottom of the crates and strap the rest, then drive like ya got some sense.

 

I'd love to see a picture of this!!

 

I see a LARGE batch of applesauce being made.

 

ROFLMAO
Wheels go round and round....whooops...slide....

 

While all ya'll speculate on a load of binned apples, I'm here to tell ya 99% of the fresh fruit( you know the ones sold separate and in bags) are in a bin on the back of a flatbed stacked two to three high. Most of the applesauce you buy is shipped the same way, but juice apples are hauled in dump trailers as well as they are the culls that won't pass for fresh or sauce. So yeah, that's so unsafe the entire apple industry does it, as well as the orange industry, too. To the guy that says he won't haul a crate on a flatbed, but put freight in his side box where it does not belong, LMFAO.