Cargo Securement

I like that. Looks nice...

Hopefully they'll be considerate enough to wait for you to do that.

Looked to me like nothing...

I doubt if you would've had that problem on that load of stuff. It's not piled very high at all. That's the best kind of flatbed freight to have, heavy and compact. Chain would also have worked. It wouldn't have hurt it none.

I wondered why people did that. To me it just didn't look right. But I've only ever had that problem with stuff standing 8' tall or so. I like to pull my straps tight.

I do see something you did wrong there. Notice the arch of the trailer against the straight boom. It'll tend to want to rock back and forth on you. I would've preferred dunnage on the ends. Also, if you didn't want to throw the straps over the top, through the middle would work too.

Ugh!! That's one thing I hated when I was doing that. Too much loading time, not enough driving time. That's just a personal preference there. I hated the guys that always got the long runs. I know it all paid the same, but I gotta have enough windshield time to make it worth my while.

 

A lot of times simply tightening the strap will stop that. I like the ones with the straps vibrating very slow, which means they are very loose.

I always went outside and never had any problems. I like to loop the hook ends around the rail 360 degrees. That way you can sort of tuck it down inside to hold it in place momentarily until you can get back to the other side of the trailer to tighten it.

 

I always liked to keep a smooth jaw pipe wrench handy for ratchet binders. What tends to happen is when you a have long pull of chain it will want to twist on you while you are tightening the binder, despite how well oiled the binder may be. The wrench allows you to hold the chain end in place.

Also, one thing I believe Buckandahalf was getting at was that in transport, binders will tend to work loose. The way to prevent that is to turn the handle in such a way as to lay it against something, usually the trailer.