Do you guys do this? Insufficient load securement

Turns out common sense isn't that common after all.

 

I saw a company driver from another midwest machinery hauler (won't mention names, but a close neighbor to the south) tie down an IH Maxxum 140 tractor with (1) 4" strap overtop the rear tires and another across the front tires.

If I can find the picture I'll post it.

 

Greenville MS PD spent the better part of the morning, cleaning up a load of rolled hay that fell of the back end of a flatbed this week. Driver passed me next morning. Load STILL looked scary

 

Stupidity knows no boundarys or borders.

Back when I closed down my company, I had a customer that shipped around a big old Allis-Chalmers with a big pump mounted on the back. He had a buddy that was always mouthing that I didn't need "all them chains. Well, one day he calls me and says he don't need me no more. Buddy's gonna do it for a hundred and a case. Asked if Bud had insurance and chains. Bud says, don't need em. Big heavy tractor like that ain't gonna move.

I saw them leaving with that rig on an old pulp truck, not one single chain onit. Nt so much as a piece of baler twine.

It moved alright, came off... hit a car. Killed mom and 3 kids.

There ain't no such thing as too many chains, etc.

 

Yep. Company lowboy broke down. Contractor we were going to do work for hauled us the rest of the way. I helped him load the machine. 78,000 lb machine and he put five 3/8 chains on it. I put eight 1/2-5/8 Ratchet binders on and a 3/8 chain. Needless to say I, didn't ride with him to the jobsite.

I treat every load as if I owned it, because if it comes off it's all mine anyway; my responsibility for your safety, my fine(s), my lost work, my jail time, my loss.

 

It's crazy, I worked at a scrap yard and their lowboy driver was family to the owners, guy had over 30 years exp. He was possibly the WORST driver I have ever worked around. He spent 15 years at swift, so that should tell you something! He would haul loads of scrap pipe with 3 chains flopping loose in the wind, then he would hook the lowboy and haul OD equipment that was heavy with a tandem truck and trailer with no permits or anything and everything he did was under-secured.

This is the same feller that pulled up over a big yellow post in the flatbed at a gas station and said "I forgot I was pulling a trailer..."

 

To many times I heard "Its to heavy to move".
Makes no sense at all.
No such thing as to many chains or straps.

 

Scariest one i saw (other then completely unsecured sea cans) was 2 straps over roughly 10 x40 3/4" plate. No strap protectors on it, just thought I hope he's going a different way

 

Saw this one today. Will try to post pictures when I get to a PC.

Flatbed with 15 foot container. No straps, no chains.

Hazmat 1.1 placards all over