Help!!! I'm being forced to haul a unsecured forklift

He's not even your boss? Tell him to ## off. Or do it himself.

 

If there's a regulation against having a forklift in a trailer, I just don't see it flying out the back in your worst case scenario. That would be when the integrity of securing a load would come up.

 

I don't mean to criticize exercising caution, just a question of whether its absolutely necessary to that extent in this case (for the two miles). You might be talking shipping container secure there, where the seas can't be controlled like your speed. I don't haul machinery, but have secured shipping containers, and the dry vans don't typically have much built into them for that, so maybe chocks are about the best you could do there. If you're sure its not sufficient by regulation, I don't know why you drove the first one, otherwise try not driving the same way next time.

 

Can we stop using the word "forced"....please.

Thank you.

 

Drive the forklift in trailer.turn hard to one side. Once wedged against both walls turn the wheels the other way. Unless your playing racecar driver it's not going to move in two miles.

 

This. Even if it were you boss, this is your answer.

If I have an unsafe trailer we have a shop not too far up the road. I call my boss after I'm in the shop. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Were I in your shoes, and being forced to haul, I would get into the back of that trailer and secure it myself. Taking pictures prior to securing it and after. Laws or not, I'm the driver. If I deem it unsafe it doesn't move. It's my job, life and livelihood at stake. Not the guy behind the desk.