First load shift!

Run a strap from one side of the trailer, through the middle of the load, over the top, and back to the same side. Do the same on the other side. it won't go anywhere even with 3/4" pipe. Sometimes you can pull the shift back enough to get on down the road with the straps.

Out of pocket for you if you didn't notice it before you left. You sign for it and that's it. Not saying it's going to be easy to catch, or that you should have caught it (unrealistic in most cases), just that "I doubt it".

 

Nothing to lose by blaming the shipper.

 

True, but if the shipper routinely sends out loads that aren't set up right he's probably been through that routine before.
I think I'd just get the load straightened out and if I loaded there again I'd watch 'em like a hawk.

 

Make sure the end going to a ratchet is the one over the top and pulling agains the lean.

also a good idea, when you get to delivery, have a forklift on that before you release any straps holding the material.

 

Ain't flatbed fun?

 

Most big T/stops have a fork lift, a bit of cash put in the one that drives it out to look at your truck can get it fixed?

 

Any pictures of this?
Before and after?