I bet the driver wished for more load securment

ouch...a flatbedders worst nightmare. Feeling a shift, looking in the mirrors and having a major bowel movement. I wonder how a strap breaking could have caused this. If straps were used then each tube should have had several on it. With the chocks on the sides they should not have moved with one strap breaking.

 

lol 20k of steel bouncing around at 10pm ib the highway here in miami wouldve been OMFG...

 

having pulled flat bed...IMO there is no such thing as "too much" securement.....

i wont even get on my soap box this early...(bones are too stiff to climb up).....but i get sooo tired of seeing not enough securement..OR FLAPPING straps or chains.....STOP BEING LAZY or GO PULL DRY VAN would ya?? and stop endangering the rest of us!!!!!!

(if this post applies to you , then pay attention ..LOL)

 

Every now and the you here a driver say "That is good enough" when it comes to securement.

 

ppl used to laugh when we secured our loads..and say..."you dont need the many" (straps of chains whatever the load called for)....we always told them....if we have them, we are gonna use them...OUR LOADS DIDNT MOVE...IF you have an accident..and you lose your load...one of the things they are gonna look at..(as seen from this article)...HOW MUCH load securement did you have???? really WHAT IS THE EXCUSE?????? i will tell you...LAZINESS!!!!! plain and simple....i have no tolerance for it......as a flatbedder....it is PART OF YOUR JOB to secure that load properly from movement and protect the public....

 

20k load, each strap is 10k of securement. Guess he figured one strap on each was "good enough"

 

Each strap is 10K of securement?

 

A 4" strap is only 5400 pounds WLL, not 10,000 pounds.