How to prevent uneven cargo, is it my fault?

I agree with you in principal. However many of today's carriers employ daycab's to shuttle loaded and unloaded trailers around. When an OTR driver is picking up a loaded trailer at a terminal or drop yard it almost takes an act of congress to bust that seal with no blow back. Once busted some receivers like most Walmart DCs won't accept the load and some shippers go apoplectic if you take it back with a busted seal. Could you imagine some green driver having to deal with this. This system about load's inside a sealed van/reefer being secure being totally on the driver is broken and needs to be fixed.

 

Well got to tell you, with the title it leads me to think it isn't your brother who needs the help.

 

Would just like to add.. an improperly secured load is as many csa/psp points as a DUI or reckless driving. 800 bucks is the smaller of his problems. I’d fight it. Not for money sake, but for career sake. It’s a huge deal.

 

The problem though is that inspection form. It is the starting process of CSA points. By the time this driver gets to court that inspection has already been entered into the CSA database and even if you win in court the chances you are going to get that data removed are not all that good.

 

yeah you blokes get kinda spoilt over there with those smooth highways nothing really moves unless you slam on the brakes.

 

Right but the next question is about his brother's failed drug test, even though his brother doesn't do drugs, but his brother's neighbor smokes a little bud sometimes, and his brother can smell it, and it's crazy how his brother would be the one guy to test positive in those circumstances, even though his brother knows that they say it doesn't work that way.

 

I'm a new driver. One thing that stuck with me from driving school is load securement responsibilities. Driver responsibility. My second load on my own was a load of tires. I could see the side of the trailer bulging and I refused to even hook up. My dispatcher told me to just take it. I asked where to leave the truck. The load got re-loaded properly. And I start for a new company next week.

 

Hand, most trailers are going to push out like that. I have carried many loads of tires like that. The inner ribs of the trailer are actually made to allow some bulging. As long as it is not very excessive the DOT won't mess with you. It has been a few years since I saw one, but last I heard Walmart does not pallet most loads coming out of their DCs. I have seen these trailers pushed out so far it looked like it was about to have a baby trailer. This happens a lot.

 

Think the original post was about a flat top bloke, yeah i understand what your talking about though cause we hauled loads of cheese to Mc Donalds everybody's favorite Scottish restaurant there was no way you could break a seal if it was broken then the load was refused however all we did then was take it back make sure the new bol matched the seal number and everything was fine, one of the reasons i loved van/reefer was that the load was more secure if could move in the trailer but not out onto the road like with a flat top. the only load i had move was one that was top heavy it was almost 6' high and the back 2 pallets were not secured properly so the first time i moved forward up a hill guess what happened?

 

One of the things that really pissed me off was drivers bringing in to a terminal empties and having extended service done to their tractors. Then they would put false seals on their trailers and set the reefers on, and sometime glad hand locked it. I went through this once and got fooled. The next time I came upon a trailer set up this way I called in to dispatch with the trailer number. If it really was under a load I got the truth. Otherwise I cut the seal off or went into the shop and a mechanic came out and cut the lock off. Drivers get by doing this even with a carrier seal because most drivers won't even think about busting a seal.