Critque My Load Securment

nope...just used to pull flatbed and was curious about your thread....then thats when i stumbled upon you talking about me

 

This is one of those deals where you can ask 10 different drivers and get 11 answers.

Personally I never put a hook back on the same chain. It is buried in the regs that it cuts down the load rating of the chain, even though it is very rarely enforced or known. I would have run the chain on the front side of the stake pocket, under the bottom, then brought it up the backside and hooked it there on the back side of the stake pocket. That way if the chain does come loose for some reason it won't fall off. That also give's you more options to where you use your binders. Unless you just really over tighten the binder it won't bend the trailer up.

 

I have to start learning to talk behind your back a little better



i have eyes in the back of my head....and i hear all......really....i do hear a lot of things......but i wont admit to what ...

 

Think you did I wonderful job , for a blind driver!!!! Heck finding the place to load at is out of this world! Being able to take the picture ! Great job !

 

Care to post a link to that? Or cite where at in the regulations it can be found?

 

I don't start trouble.
(ok, I won't)Lol

 

Unfortunately the gubmint sees every tiedown point as halving the load limit of the chain/strap. In other words, if you have a 5400 pound chain going through one chain pocket then hooked to its self, the load limit is 5400 (you can use that to hold 10,800 pounds of cargo). If you run that same chain through two pockets then hooked back to its self, the load limit of that chain is now 2700 pounds (you can only use it now to hold 5400 pounds of cargo). You have essentially just made your chain half as strong (according to a bureaucrat in DC).

FMCSA 393.106d
Minimum Working Load Limit for Cargo Securement Devices and Systems
The aggregate working load limit of any securement system used to secure an article or group of articles against movement must be at least one-half the weight of the article or group of articles. The aggregate working load limit is the sum of: One-half the working load limit of each tiedown that goes from an anchor point on the vehicle to an attachment point on an article of cargo; and The working load limit for each tiedown that goes from an anchor point on the vehicle, through, over or around the cargo and then attaches to another anchor point on the vehicle.

 

Here we go again!!!!