How's this for load securement?

I should have done more than a driveby.

It was more about the principle. Yes most states just pass a law saying they use the federal guide lines, but that's as much as cost saver as anything else. No studies needed and it makes training easier. But the feds can't dictate how a state regulates intrastate carriers.

A prime example of states being stricter (although adminttedly not securement,) are the states that have lower limits on steer axle weights off the National Network. But as a general guideline, in most cases states have less strict standards for intrastate. A lot of them have exemptions for HOS involving construction and ag operations that allow more the FMCSA standards.

 

Even this Texas driver isn't that trusting of a strap or two

 

I think I smell a Yankee.

 

This week in Indiana, load killed driver,

 

That's ugly! Can't quite make out what the load was? The covered wagon looks undamaged?

 

You mean except for the part of the other truck laying on the bows, right?

 

Headache racks. Why don't more people use them? Sure the truck might still be badly damaged but I'm pretty sure the driver would have lived.

 

a headache rack would'nt have saved that guy unless he took a few more straps off of it to secure that forward movement

 

If it wasn't for the hood on top of the bows you would think that was a cabover.