Flatbed Terminology

No supertrucker here. Just a terminology comment thats all. hell if ya got em use em why not

 

Skidded coil sounds good but eye to the sky sounds cool!

 

interesting

 

But suicide and shotgun are a lawyers wet dream.

 

I tried looking for my answer in this thread and couldn't find what I was looking for, so I apologize if this has already been answered here:

Does shotgun loading/unloading ONLY apply to coils? Or is it still considered shotgun loading if it's a different product loaded (potentially rolled) on the side?

 

Like what cement pipe? Off the top I can't think of anything else that's loaded I the "suicide" fashion...

 

Cement pipe works as an example, but really anything that can be rolled onto a trailer is under question here... is the term Shotgun specific to only coils or is it specific to the act of rolling a product onto the side of the trailer, regardless of what that product is?

 

It traditionally applies to coils but is applicable as descriptive vernacular to freight that is cylindrical with an "eye" through which securement can be "threaded". It's basically an orientation related term... kind of like port and starboard is used for left and right in nautical terms....these "tend" to be used mostly for coils reference but are equally applicable as long as the person receiving the communication understands what is meant by the sending communicator.

 

We had those back in the '60's...

... but we weren't smoking cigars.

 

Appreciate this. Learn something new every day!!