This happened yesterday in town

I saw this earlier on Facebook and he did have SOME chains crossed at the front.
Obviously NOT enough.
I really hope he had a camera, and it got the whole thing. It was probably some irate soccer ditz who cut him off or brake checked him.

 

I did not look at the video to where I could see a lot of detail but I did see the chains. My first thought was they were a result of the crews using them somehow to get the beams slid back onto the deck but on second view on a big screen, it looks like he did x-chain to the extent he could. Like I said, with that type of steel, you can't secure it all with cross chain(s), but like another said, rubber mats help a lot to create friction when and where they can be used.

Another set of images for future securement training videos.

 

26 year old kid. RIP
I wonder if he was heading towards the 94/694 interchange. That interchange is a “choke point” with a very little merge area.

 

I thought in Arkansas you had to have a headache rack. I know log haulers and every flat bed i've seen always does. When I pulled flat bed we always had one and of course even the craziest person refused to haul logs without one.
Anyway RIP driver. That is sad

 

Nope. I've hauled in/around/through Arkansas and don't have one on my truck.

 

That's kind of just like Alaska. I have never seen a flatbed hauling steel in Alaska or logs for that matter without a headache rack and it's not required by law just by common Sense

 

I used to haul deck for around 7+yrs all over the oil patch in Alberta & BC Canada....lots of drill pipe - hated the yellowjacket in winter !! - steel plate and I-beam.
Best insurance against pipe / beam coming thru the bunk is a heavy duty (commercial application) cargo net that fits nicely over the front of any size of pipe or steel load and severely attaches right to the deck.
Cost is around $300 CDN for a quality one with a guarantee from the MFG if used correctly.
A buddy of mine proved this claim by getting cutoff and ending up going down a steep embankment with a load of I beam and center - punching a 3ft diameter tree....
(abrupt halt ! )
nothing moved foward at all..
great investment - way cheaper than an aluminum headache rack that will only slow things down instead of containing the foward forces in a crash or panic stop.
RIP DRIVER ...
everyone play safe play safe out there....

 

sorry should say" securely attaches "

 

That's interesting; looking at a heavy cargo net, it says they have a much higher loading weight if there's a non-slip mat underneath the load (based on the frictional coefficient at different angles)... ah, maybe this explains why heavy steel cars don't likewise fly off of car carriers (with non-slip rubber tires on a non-slip grating, in addition to being strapped down).