Is it legal to haul lumber boards unsecured in a dry van?

We used to see oak trees jammed into our 40 foot containers three or even four at a time. Forklifts can go only so far vs the Container box. You went out and found a poured concrete wall and then slammed the trees in the rest of the way. BOOOM.

120,000 in weights? Pshaw aint no such thing driver, get going yer late already.

 

as long as some sucker is willing to take the risk, shippers will keep on shipping unsafe loads!!!
Wake up drivers!
its your license and livelihood at risk, god forbid anything bad happens. i wouldnt want that on my conscience

 

I didn't think it was any worse than some of the other van loads I hauled. The bands do keep it pretty tight, and in a crash, no freight is going to sit still. Most of those older chassis' didn't have sliders, and I always went around the scales, but once, someone on the radio said the coops were closed( possibly a cop) and they were open. Naturally, I was way over on the drives, and had to go in the container, break the bands and throw 100+ boards from the front to the back. After a couple hours driving before that, the load didn't look any different than when it was loaded. The guys on the other end got a surprise, though.

 

One of my grandfathers started a water well drilling co. after he got out of WW2. He always picked up new drilling pipe from manufactures and delivered it to and stored it at the locations in a van so it wouldnt be sitting out rusting or get stolen by competitors or other people to be used to build ranch fences. Used pipe was always flatbedded but that new stuff was protected gold.

 

how the hell do they unload it????????

 

A lot of lumber, plywood, and particle board/MDF gets shipped in dry vans. I’m guessing since they were loading these from the ends that the product is over 8ft long otherwise they’d just load it sideways as they do with sheet product. I’m not sure what everyone is envisioning happening, it’s really no different than any other heavy load on a van trailer.

 

Hauled alot of unsecured lumber loads in dry vans back in the day. Sometimes we'd gut wrap a chain around the unit when loading. Most were rail head loads.

 

Wrap a choke chain around them and pull with a winch truck. He installed a roll pin on the back in the floor inside the doors to help. Had 1/4 steel plate lining the floor and the bottom 4 ft of wall. 3/8 plate on nose wall. Big bertha army surplus forklift at the pipe supply yard to push em in. Did it for almost 50 years.
He was a WW2 Seabee engineer wasnt afraid to try and make anything work. Lol.

 

I seen it done all the time like that. Always some 3rd world moron guy driving the van trailer. So i think that speakd for itself

 

How is this any less secure than say a load of beer?
I don't think I've ever hauled a load in a van that was secure, at least the way flat bed loads are.
The walls and door do a good job keeping the product contained in normal usage. In a wreck thay still don't allow too much dispersal. After all a lot of momentum is spent simply punching a hole in the trailer.

 

If you think about it. The only reason you have to strap or chain a load on a flat is to keep it from falling off. The walls of a van around it keeps stuff from falling off. Load locks help for fore and aft but they are not keeping anything from laying over. LTL’s move all kinds off stuff around all day in vans that you’d think should be on a flat.