Advice for Hauling Steel Coil

Made my first coil load seem like a breeze. Fairfield to Granite City. Hit a deer at the 29 mp on IL I-24 WB. Bent my perfect bumper. Everything else went good though.

I always wrap a few rounds of rubber rope around my bags to keep them from flapping. It's always the backside that balloons out like Granny's panties after a bowl of beans.

You'll smooth out the rough edges soon enough.

 

I'm looking into hauling some steel coils, I've got a question about loading an eye in the sky coil. The FMC Safety Regulation book says to use at least 3 chains.



But if I'm hauling a single 45000-50000lb coil, I will need more than 3 chains. Where do I place my extra chains? The first chain will start at your most forward point on the right and go to the rear left. Then the next chain at your most forward point to the left and go to the rear right. Do I just start a little closer to the middle for the next chain on the right and go a little towards the middle on the left? And vice versa for the other side?

Also do I need rubber at every point that my chains cross?

 

Its pretty easy, but its only for hauling metal coils. You don't need for anything else. And with that, i think it has to originate or terminate in NY. (You wouldn't need hauling coil from Jersey to Philly)

 

I'm not saying it does not exist, but I've never seen or heard of a skidded coil being that heavy. Most are under 15K that I've done, avg is 11K and under. Use corner protectors on all edges. Just remember to take your time and ask questions if you need to, don't get in a hurry.

 

Never seen one either. Never seen the skid that could support a 50k coil. And that'd be one of those big 2 story looking forklifts neededto pick it up. In fact, the biggest coils are almost always suicide.

 

Most times the fork lift has to drive onto the trailer to unload a skidded coil, and I don't imagine a fork to lift a 40k-50k coil is gonna be getting on a trailer.

 

I have never seen a skidded coil that heavy but I have also never had a forklift drive on my trailer to unload skidded coils. The ones I have hauled were side loaded.

 

I'm actually under a load for Nucor out of Nebraska, be careful hauling for these guys regardless of size of the coil, I have a load on me that I over secured and the band on one of the coils actually broke and shifted my whole weight, and as you can guess, since I was outside their fence that falls on the driver even though its their securement that failed, so now I'm trying to figure out how to stand them back up and that's a problem all in itself, so just make sure if you haul at least their smaller coils, even though they don't allow it, use chains and straps, I tried following their rules and that's something I'll never do again.

 

Are these slitter coils? Or are they on a skid?