Do you guys do this? Insufficient load securement

Must be nice to have all that money and use a good vehicle as a stunt trk.

 

I've wondered what some new cop on a mission would say if they inspected my deep well coil trailer. Since they're very rare and the only securement is an anti-telescoping bar in front of each coil and a few 4" straps over the top. I'm sure he would get excited and go regulation hunting and come up with nothing.

 

As I've learned in years gone by from different states, the regulations place these type of securement within grey areas. Calif has a number of them listed, making multiple types of tie downs for each commodity within the grey area legal.

I hauled coiled wire referred to as 'a pack', similar in look to a coil with the exception of always being paper wrapped. Their unit weight around 6895 pounds each, were tied down most often with chains or 4" straps and dunage, even though within the grey listing for wire packs we could secure them with mimimum 3/8 rope, one tied forward and two tied back. Go figure......

 

It wouldnt go over well in WA state. A few years ago they decided all the slinky wire coils fell into the same bracket as regular metal coils and made us use coil racks and dunnage for each coil. Now when you are hauling 12 coils thats 24 pices of 4x4 and 24 coils racks. If you had landscape timbers (like the little cherry tones) and the coil touched the deck, you were stopped there and game over at the POE.

Its wierd though as if you haul coiled rebar, you dont need it except on the ends of the trailer.

 

90% of coils are hauled with this type of trailer in my country.
The is mainly done by companies contracted to the steel mills.
About 80% goes to the ports about 375 miles from most mills.
Average export coil weighs 59 500lbs to 70 500lbs for stainless steel.
The carbon steel coils are usually lighter.
Most of these trailers only have center beams and cross bolsters with container locks fitted for hauling cans back from the ports.
It is very easy to load coils.
They just lower them shotgun in to the cradle between the main beams.
Pneumatic locking bars take care of the front and rear with the pull of a leaver.
One or 2 heavy straps over the coil and good to go.
Small shaped tarp if needed.
Don't think it takes 10 minutes to load secure and tarp.
A pneumatic locking bar pushes

 

the guy that dosn't chain or strap legally because he is to lazy is the same guy that takes up two spots in front of the doors in a truck stop

 

I prefer to park in the back.. Its usually safer

 

I did the back row placement through the mid 90's till some three man East Indian refer unit was attempted to be parked by pushing their trailer through my sleeper! And you know what? Not one of those guys even considered walking back to look and or guide his co-driver, no more truckstops for me, just fuel and go. I will park in an off hwy safer place down the road or at a customers location with prior permission if there is an out of the way area, even when I'm passing through, not delivering to them. My reference to the Indian team, I have some most aware/ conscious EI friends both in Canada and the US, so do not misunderstand me as predigest.

 

Im at my receiver now... Unfortunatly Its a residential area. But theres trees to help with the noise of my APU running

 

Yea it's a trailer for lazy people. I dont use it much because it's a little heavier than my flat. There were only 2 companies I know of that made them and one stopped around 1999-2000. The other is designed different than mine and is a lot heavier. I priced a new 50' tri axle from Thru-Way in Canada and it was around $80,000. I also took mine to Nelson trailer in Ohio to be stretched and had them quote me a price to make one identical and the price was the same.

Sure is nice though loading a 73,000 single coil and never throwing a chain.


Or 3-28k's