Load Securement Question

Usually the work load is what you go by. Basically if steel coils are heavier. You add more chain & binders to handle that weight for safe transport. That is how i do all my flat deck securement.
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Yes numeric values is the working load limit

 

hmmm, the feds made Alabama do away with theirs , that didn't affect ny?

 

No NY's is still the law. If you are a resident of NY and want to pull coils you have to have the endorsement.

 

You did it right. They are looking to see if you can take the label or marking and reference a table and come up with the correct WLL, that's all - with that one.

When I was running them the Feds did mess with NY and you had to have the coil endorsement only if it was an inTRAstate load (p/u and del within NY) but if it was going to cross the state line you didn't. They made them do away with that part. Plus they couldn't enforce the intrastate requirement if you were an inTERstate driver, with an out of state CDL (other states didn't even have that endorsement so there was no way to get one), running a single inTRAstate load as the result of a load that brought you in state and was setting you up to get back out or on a non-coil load. You couldn't run up there, spend two weeks running intrastate coil loads and then boogie back outta state. You could run a single coil load without the endorsement or multiple, but not consecutive loads. It was a whole State vs Fed thing, the Feds mostly won and NY kept the parts they could. It's a good endorsement to have if flatbedding and NY is your home state. Then you don't have to worry about it.

 

Eyes crosswise, is suicide, meaning that if the coil broke loose in a hard brake or crash, it could roll and kill you, vertical, is eye to the sky, self explanatory. Shotgun, is coil loaded eye lengthwise, or front to back, so then it would roll off the side. Sometimes referred to as homocide.