You're right, I just looked at my manual and my pockets are 5400 on a 2013 Infinity.
Thanks.
Securing Large Coils
Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by CDLman63, Oct 13, 2018.
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@fargonaz I’ve got this sticker on the front of my 2014 Infinity TX
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With a suicide coil over 20k pounds, I put every chain I have on it unless I have more than one coil. I roll forward about 10-15 feet and an idle and I give the brakes a good light tap. Set my brakes and get out and tighten it all back up. I also always have one more point of securement pulling away from me than toward me. Then I x straps over the top of the coil. Outside of the tarp if it’s tarped.
There are things you don’t play around with in flatbed. Coils, pipe, structural steel or steel beams.
What you have is one guy telling what is legal. He is correct. 50% is legal. You have another guy telling you what best practice is. He is right. 100% is best practice on suicide coils.
Btw... a 40k coil will still snap every chain you have like they weren’t even there in the first place if you should ever have to lock those brakes up. If you have any of the aforementioned loads, especially steel that can become projectile or coils that can roll, you need to drive like there is an unrestrained child in a car seat on the back of your deck. Or a cup of coffee that if you spill it, you’ll die. Because you will.
Don’t take any chances with that stuff. If another truck or a car pulls up beside you, don’t even hesitate to back off and give them all the space in the world to pass so they don’t cut you off. If you come to an onramp and you can’t get over, start backing off way in advance so you’re not going to be brake checking that load through the back of your head.
You need enough securement on that load that if you should happen to roll the truck in a curve, that coil is still sitting there in the rack, not having moved a millionth of an inch. That’s how secure that coil needs to be.PoleCrusher, Lepton1, MACK E-6 and 3 others Thank this. -
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I don't know what the law is on chaining the coils. But, what I see every day at the mills is. 8 chains, and 2 4x4 chocks. I have seen less. I wouldn't do less.
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U legaly only need half but i usually throw 4 on front and 5 on back of coil, sometimes 6 if i get that voice tellin me i need more... Then 2 straps on top, sometimes over the tarp sometimes under it... I seen guys drive off with 4 chains total and idk how they arent sketched out by that.. With 9 chains and 2 straps im still nervous than a dog ####tin razor blades til i deliver
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If that's what Disks can do to 18 wheeler why the hell are we not using the #### things?
I keep going to that video of the stop, mentally I was still in the process of executing the stop and there he is already stopped. That's fast. Either that or Im really slow.
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