How to secure paper rolls to satisfy DOT?

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  1. wis bang

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    That's why J B sold his tankers; too many drownings when installing load locks!
     
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    Right after they started talking about securement; The carrier I was with had a container stopped after leaving the shipper; DOT was looking to see how that shipper had secured the product. Resealed and on to the pier and customs with no proiblems.
     
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    Load securement is important, even when hauling livestock.



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    I’ve witnessed Florida DOT open sealed reefer trailers before.
     
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    DOT won’t break seals during an inspection. They technically can, but it never happens. Usually only police or border patrol if you give permission or a drug dog alerts.

    Secondly, I worked for international paper for 5 years and I’ve had big paper rolls slide forward once. Car cut me off and I had to hit the brakes a little hard. Rolls slide forward and busted the rivets about 2’ long on the bottom of the wall and bowed outward about 3”
     
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    I saw a bug cop break a seal in California on a reefer at the bughouse at Needles. Opened my trailer too though I didn't have it sealed. Told me they were checking all of the loads coming out of Texas for fire ants.
     
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    Last company I hauled a fair number of paper loads from different places. Didn't seem to be any sort of standard for securement. Some used those gravity mats I think, they looked like shingles. Some had me put straps in. One nailed boards down. I think one place used sand or sawdust, though may be thinking of a different customer. One time I hauled rolls in a reefer, just used a bunch of load bars. Did any of this matter? Idk but never had a claim or anything.
     
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    Those mats are made of ground up tires, I think, and I took a bunch home. Worked better than cardboard.
     
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    I wouldn't haul them if they were that high and stacked in the middle with nothing to brace them. I would worry about hitting an S curve in a work zone and dumping it and killing someone.

    I have to have them loaded so they can't tip over and smash through the wall of the trailer.
     
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    The only thing that prevents those companies from loading those paper rolls safe is GREED.

    They should be loaded like this, strapped, not on a flatbed, but see how these are tied down and on racks under them and it makes it harder to tip over:

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