A flatbedder's worst nightmare

It should not break the chains if you've got enough on for the weight but it's going to push you into that 4 wheeler if you slam the brakes so her post, is still worthwhile. Driver's Ed classes need to teach students to never force a truck driver to use the brakes.

 

Yes thy will, but only if you don't put enough securement on the rite way. I guarantee you a properly secured coil won't leave that trailer when you hard brake.

 

You've never been in a truck.
Not one single trucker I've ever meet, in the past 15 years, would ever make an absolute claim like this.

 

Proper securement can break under the forces experienced during a collision. If you hit the brakes your tires should break reaction in good dry roads before your securement breaks loose.

 

Us steel released a video to their in house carries several years back. The premise of the video was to show even with perfect securments of beyond 100% of the weight that with enough of a hard brake a coil could come lose and roll into the cab. They showed a flatbed class B truck with a 35k lbs coil and 40k in securement hard breaking as slow as 30mph and the chains would still break

 

In case u aren’t joking. Driver's Handbook on Cargo Securement - Chapter 5: Metal Coils

 

Thanx X-1, I will add that exit strategy to the survival tools in my toolbox.
I don't haul coils - but that little hit vs. the big bang makes sense and is something for all to consider.
I'm out there every day - among the meat with eyes - and they notoriously do stupid ship.
I do guess it's better to PITT Maneuver them, or nudge the corner to push them aside,
than crush the car into the ICC Bumper of truck up front.

 

Chains have a flaw. A weak link. SNAP!

Now if we start hustling CABLES around coils with the appropriate hydraulic securement to tension the #### things... maybe they wont break. But the trailer's chain hooks or the rubrail stake pockets will.

 

Bull. A chain or a binder has a rated strength, sure, but that's when they're brand new.
Use your chains a few times and there will be some stretching and deformation in the links. Especially if you're putting your binders in the same places every time. You won't be able to see it but it's there. If you do see deformed links anywhere in the chain, get rid of it.
Binders the same way. They start getting sloppy around the pins and the clevis begins to wear...throw them in the recycle bin.
Watch out for your rigging...it's out to get you.

 

It's not very comforting when you break snap binders tying down a load