Forward force

What the heck are you talking about?

 

Your rear pull. For those brake check moments. Mainly this will apply to heavy equipment. The regs say that you have to have 4 points of securement for heavy equipment (10k or heavier) regardless of the WLL of your securement. Your securement is to prevent the load from going forward(80%WLL), back(50%), side to side(50%) and up and down (50%). For heavy equipment, you will do 4 points DIRECT. So take your machine and multiply by 0.8 and your securement to the rear has to be enough to cover.

Hope I made sense.

 

I think you may want to post this question in the flatbed forum, not new driver section.

 

Why? This should be a question on the written exam for all drivers, dry van drivers should take it in consideration the forward movement of the load, god only knows how many pallets that the allow to be loaded in the center of the trailer have moved to the front by hard braking.

 

Forward Force is exactly why Big Maude doesn’t walk down hill. It’s level or nothing for Big Maude.

 

Oh, man, the way shippers used to load stuff into my dry van! A 12" piece of 2x4 with 2 nails into the floor was deemed 'sufficient' to secure a 9000lb roll of Kraft board.....Yikes!!! Kinda makes you want to avoid stopping too quickly.....
No, the reality is that MOST dry van drivers have nothing stronger than a few straps and maybe a load lock. And the occasional stove-out nose from when those weren't enough to do the job!