GP and load securement

My favorite if you wanna call it that is a guy pulled out of Lowe's which was on a slight incline. He had a whole bundle of 1/2" OSB not strapped. He gassed on it and it slid out of the truck and scattered the road. He didn't get far. It must of been fun picking up.

Another one was a brand new big screen TV. I pulled over for that one but the screen was busted. The box was still there so I knew it was new. Somebody was crying.

Or them ones that move and are missing one couch cushion. Bummer.

 

One time I was on whatever that road is that runs between Lynchburg VA and Charlottesville, ...

I passed these drunken hicks who were pulling a single-wide mobile home up a hill with an old Ford 4000 tractor. They had this big fat woman sitting on the hood of the tractor and it still looked a little bouncy on the front end. Someone was leaning out an open window holding a beer bottle and I saw several other people inside.

It was one of those times when you see something that's so funny it takes about 10-20 seconds before it even sinks into your head what you just saw, and it's so ####### hilarious you're laughing so hard your eyes start watering up like you're crying or something. I almost had to pull over.

 

Now that's funny. I like the counter weight idea.

A country boy can survive. The preferred method of towing around here is a chain.

 

Saw this one on the news this morning.

"My guys are instructed on how to strap a load in. The load was strapped in," says the owner of the (soon to be sued out of existence) fencing company whose driver is locked up without bond for vehicular homicide.

What a maroon. If it was so strapped in, why was stuff falling off the truck?!?!

 

Hey sis, get out on front of the tractor and make sure we're not gonna run anything over!

 

Futile attempt to sway public opinion from the bad fence co. If he was smart he would do like his big brothers in the truck business do and throw the driver under the bus.

Of course that statement above is now on the record so he's toast too.
JMO

 

No, he's saying "my guy was trained, but he fouled (*&**ed) up". Puts it RIGHT on the driver.

 

It might have been strapped in. Those posts tend to slide out of the straps. What I learned from a guy who spent 40 years in fencing was that at least one (two or three if you can) strap should be wrapped around the pipe, not just over the top. That forms a noose that tightens when the pipe starts to move. Then you put everything else on top of the pipe and strap that down so it helps to keep the pipe in place.

Most guys just toss a strap or two over the top and call it good. They also like to keep the pipe on top so they don't have to unload before they start work.

 

It's called a gut wrap.

 

Seen 'em buy old Toyota/nissan compact pickups...they take the bed off one, turn the other around, and put the back end of the second truck up on the bedless first...and stack the bed of the first one in the second truck...and haul ### down the interstate...just a bit of rope (maybe) holding the second truck on to the first one...and no tiedowns on the bed.

Saw a guy, truck pulled over on the shoulder, one time with a busted up upright piano in the road, staring at the sight like he couldn't accept the reality of the situationo...seems he didn't strap it down at all and when they made a turn...CRASH....