Law that straps are to be inside the rub rail

I would like to know the actual law, if any, regarding that. I always throw a half twist on my straps and have since I hauled my first flatbed load some years back. I was stopping every 50 miles trying to pull the straps tight enough to keep them from raising heck against the side of the big box I was hauling and finally an older gentleman that had probably been driving since the 40's showed me a trick, put a twist in them an no more noise. Of course I had frayed the edges of 4 or 5 brand new straps and ruined them at that point. I have never had a DOT officer say anything about a half twist and only heard rumors of the legality of it but never found any regulation specifically addressing half twists.

 

I've always had my straps inside the rub-rail, and I also always secure the hook under the rail of the trailer. The only thing that ever touches the rub rail on my loads are bungees.

OS/OD loads that are wider than the trailer rub rails will be excluded from that though, I'd go over the rails, whatever is safest

 

"The Agency believes that inmany instances, the nature of the cargodictates the ability of the cargosecurement devices to meet the existingrequirements of§ 393.104(f)(4). Asdiscussed in the NPRM, however, Stateenforcement personnel and motorcarriers expressed difficulties inachieving uniform and consistentenforcement of the regulation.Therefore, the Agency rescinds
§ 393.104(f)(4) as proposed."

I like this , they can't even use the space bar when typing but want to tell em how to secure a load.

 

i knew a guy who chained a load of plywood once, he didn't have a job anymore

 

As long as you use appropriate padding/edge protection I don't see why you couldn't chain it. Course, using straps is much easier, but as long as the load is secured and not damaged what does company care?

 

IF no damage i don't imagine the company would hace cared but alot of damage was done

 

When i was a teenager i saw a flat bed flip on its side ,he had a load of lumber secured with chains and the load stayed bound to the trailer,when the wrecker got on the scene they cut the chains so they could flip the truck and trailer back onto its wheels.Probably would have been a lot bigger mess had he been using straps.

 

I had a rather spirited discussion about this subject on another thread a few weeks ago. Moderator shut it down. Wonder where those super truckers are now.

 

Wow nobody is disputing this.

 

Disputing what?