Just woundering if you have to nail or screw down the dunnage if you are hauling spools of cable, sheet metal, etc. or is just the weight of the item enough to keep them in place.
Dunnage question
Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by kelboy, May 18, 2012.
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I did it both ways. Depends on the shipper.
I preferred to nail them down. -
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If I am hauling a couple of reels then I use my coil racks and no need to nail the dunnage down. If I am hauling a bunch of reels then I will nail them down as obviously not enough coil racks. Sheet metal coils get coil racks with dunnage and no need to nail them down.
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They should already be on a pallet or you will need to put down some 4x4's to keep them up off the deck, but every load of eye to the sky coils I have pulled have been skidded already.
Never have i ran 14 at one time tho, what the heck??? Even at 2,000# each that's got to be a pain to tarp -
Lay down coils, not eye to the sky.
If I know I'm going to be getting that many, I load up with racks and blocks before I leave with my outbound load. Occasionally, I have just racked the front and back and put the rest on the floor.
When I'm getting a mess like that, they are secondary, and I don't have to worry about damage.
If it isn't going to rain, we don't have to tarp. Even when we get our prime coils at the paint plants that have an "all loads must be tarped" policy, we don't tarp unless it's raining. The same man that owns the trucks is buying the coils, so they don't bother us. -
I pulled a load of eye to sky skidded titanium coils from ATI louisville to Glen Burnie, MD and there was I believe 14 of them, they were staggered and still took up 46.5 feet of trailer.
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