This was a reload so we didn’t know what we would be getting when we left Iowa with Musco lights headed for Georgia. We ended up picking up 5 coils totaling 44,000 lbs but only had 4 coil racks so two were loaded side by side and all butted together front to back. Like this( suicide load) front l l l l l l l l l l Back The three single coils never budged, and the chains were like steel bars all the way from Marietta, Georgia to Davenport, Iowa. The double row I had to tighten every time we stopped. When I pulled into the yard, I had a veteran trucker come over and look at the way we secured our load. He pointed out what I had somehow missed all the way back every time I tightened the load. The gap between the two coils loaded next to each other had slowly diminished from about 10 inches to 1 inch. Every time I tightened the four chains on the double coils the coils slowly moved together, causing slack. I would rather never put two side-by-side again, but if I do, I will be putting dunnage in the middle to keep them from coming together. hopefully this helps some other new driver’s picking up coils for the first time I like us
Any thing side by side on a flat will try to work together. They have three options with me: put the stuff touching together, blocking in between, take the #### off and someone else can haul it.
