COILS: Chains+straps or just chains?

No authority for me I was on with mercer for a while and did great then a friend of mine in Berkeley Springs needed a flatbed guy so I run under his authority for a rebar company

 

sounds like your talking about just north of little washington pa. you have to hang a right to stay on 18 south and it is a heck of a turn up hill loaded. many low boys have gotten stuck on it bottoming out and requiring a couple tow trucks to get the over. i run it alot

 

I go by the legal tie down law's/ 48,000 lb suicide coil. 4 chains is legal. g70 3/8 chain, 1/2" binder wll 9200. I put 5 chains on at times. I drive 180 miles one way. if driving between 1 a.m. & 3 I put 4 on, if during any traffic I use 5. always legal, sometimes extra.

 

Don't have any idea what is legal now,in the 70s 3 was standard usage. If loaded lengthwise a 4x4 and 2 chains but that was then. I never had any issues. With CRST ran Colo to East Coast.

 

It doesn't matter that the 1/2" binder has a WLL of 9200lb. The 3/8" gr 70 chains have a WLL of 6600lb and they are your limit, unless your attachment points are even less.

 

Does anyone know if Western Express flatbed training is good I'm looking at getting into doing flatbed. Thanks

 

I've seen alot of western express trucks with ratty looking loads...dunno about how they train though...

 

I thought this was a thread for securing coils, not some cut rate company.

 

i guess no ones ever hauled coils on pallets eye to the sky that were straps only?? some dont want chains on those