Good for you.
I don’t know if you’ve encountered one yet, but use special care with the ones that are taller than they are wide. Take your turns gently.
This is like starting trucking all over on my first day!
Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by A Bug, Dec 7, 2019.
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This morning when fueling I see ta Roehl flatbed trainee doing a straight line back into a parking spot. His trainer was guiding him in. The student driver was having all the common issues new drivers have with over steering and all.
Now I am trying to imagine learning strapping, chaining, and driving a truck all at once, and I do not even have to tarp the thing.MACK E-6 Thanks this. -
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. Also I quit rolling my straps quite a while ago, now I will just sorta fold them over in 2 foot segments leaving the flathook out so it's ready for my next securement ^^^^ once folded I will lay them on their side right about where there curtain stops when opened toward the front. Makes my securement and strap folding quicker.LoneCowboy, A Bug, rda2580 and 1 other person Thank this. -
I prefer loading the coil suicide, just seems easier to chain down. Had a mandatory shotgun loaded coil yesterday, 46,900 pounds. I threw on five 10k pound chains crossed like an X. Ratcheted them down as hard as I could,
About 35 miles later I stop to check on them and they had loosened to the point that the edge protectors were falling off. About a hundred miles later they were still slightly loose again. Never really had a problem like this when the coil is loaded suicide.
I am thinking I should have thrown on a sixth chain to make things even out instead of being lazy and using only 5, three going one way and two the other.
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Shotgun coils get chained over the top, correct?
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Forgot about going over the top, I do remember the company orientation doing it that way now.
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