Cargo net inside truck??

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  1. austinmike

    austinmike Road Train Member

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    I thought it was for holding down lot lizards - some of em are kind of squirmy - l o l
     
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  3. FerrissWheel

    FerrissWheel Road Train Member

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    I've looked into it, the requirement for safety restraint is that endures 6000lbs force to front of the vehicle, and prevents ejection FMCSR 393.76(h). So as long as the net can take that impact, you could use either. Don't see why it couldn't.
     
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  4. LGarrison

    LGarrison Road Train Member

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    It is a cargo net ,not a Safety belt. There is a difference between the two systems and what they are meant to be and do
     
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  5. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    Read your truck manual. It isn't a cargo net. It is a safety restraint.
     
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  6. LGarrison

    LGarrison Road Train Member

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    Your right go back and read my first post on this thread

    When you stop trying to read between the lines then you might see the different of the two systems
     
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  7. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    I read all your posts, which all start from the assumption it is a cargo net.

    It isn't.
     
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  8. LGarrison

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    Your trying to split hairs, it is a net that must stand a 6,000 pull restraint test it is use to stop the forward motion of you gear in case of a impact.
     
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  9. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    I'll certainly grant you that many a driver uses it as a cargo net in the top bunk. However, it is designed and installed to withstand 6000 lbs to restrain a human. That's what it is, a human restraint system that most of us use as a cargo restraint system.

    I think the hair has now been split enough to make fairy dust. I'm out.
     
  10. not4hire

    not4hire Road Train Member

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    It would seem to me, that it is...



    both.

    There, now everybody is happy.

    Or, nobody is happy. ;)
     
  11. LGarrison

    LGarrison Road Train Member

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    Suggest you stop at a scale and debate it with DOT @Scalemaster
     
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