alright, time for me to jump the fence

I have a routine I follow everytime. When you are done with an unload and about to leave, STOP! walkaround the truck like doing a pre-trip but just look for things you may have left out or not secured or forgot to close.

When you get loaded do the same thing but this time make sure to look at your straps and chains and make sure its enough and check them all for tightness as you may have forgot one. Also look for anything left out, not secured or forgot to close.

I am major OCD about this too as I have forgotten to tighten a strap before and caught it on the walkaround and same with forgot to close a door and have left stuff out too.

 

I do the same thing now. First week I kept forgetting stuff. I have a pretty good routine that I'm pretty OCD about. Routine is what makes this job easier.

 

Yep. This. It happens to all of us. Once you get your own swing per say, its all natural to you.

 

Did that the other day. Was rushing to beat my log book to the house. Thankfully someone let me know or i woulda went down the entire njtp with it open.

 

nervous is a good thing. paranoia is too

 

Ha, that will probably be me in about a year when I retire.

 

Yeah, I know what you mean, did that just last week. Put my winch bar on the cat walk from the off side, finished hanging my flags and drove off. Got to the job site, seen the empty spot in my boomer box, and #### it all, could not believe I had such a D. S. attack. But, a hammer does ride pretty good on the trailer deck, but I can spot that pretty quick in the mirror before it goes anywhere.

Need to go shop for a camper...

 

I've got four skid loaders on my trailer right now.

I really like hauling them. No tarp involved.

 

Not saying its this but large carriers arent liked much in the van world by the smaller companies and independents. Multiply that by 10 in the flatbed world.