Load shift.

Why would someone run a load in a van unsecured ?
The side panels are more to keep weather out than heavy loads in.

 

So why isn't the load secured? Do vans not need freight secured in them? I'm honestly asking as someone who has never been closer than maybe 30 feet to a van and have never looked inside one.

 

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Most van freight doesn't need to be secured. Depends on what the freight is and the floor type in the van. Sometimes pallets loaded in a van are just secured with air bags or maybe load locks or nylon straps. Usually, heavy loads like in the OPS picture, the pallets are secured with a nail gun to a wooden floor.
I went to the ports in Delaware to get pallets of scrap copper from Egypt. They didn't load me because the trailer I was pulling had a metal floor. The only way to safely secure the load was with a nail gun, nailing the wooden pallets to a wooden floor.

 

Or going to Buffalo to get brass coil that are wide as the van floor and about a foot and change thick. They go something like 16 to a load in the box on the floor. They recieve wood bracing etc.

During winter it is actually a reefer load where they are kept at 60 degrees and are blocked and nailed into the metal flooring which is not good for that floor long term. Those go to Lonoke Remington Arms to make small arms cartridges and shotgun cases etc.

If you go into a walmart and see a pallet with stuff stacked on it. If it is wrapped and all one item, it's a typical pallet load that goes into a box. And onto the floor. There are ways to secure, but it is never true securement. If I had to horse a van over a lane or three, I have to do it gently enough to keep everything from going through the wall. What it will USUALLY do.. is collapse into a big pile by the doors waiting to fall onto your head if you open it at the dock. Eggs in particular. 30 dozen are heavy and can kill you or worse. THUMP.