New member question

my last job before i retired, was hauling dedicated electrical freight for a major electrical supply warehouse.

i would have those huge wooden reels of wire/cabling, and they would roll out the door, when the load in front was moved onto the floor, would roll down the dock, hit the back wall of the building, and stay there, couldn't have been any easier on me.

they were NEVER strapped in, by the dockworkers of that company. but to be honest too, i delivered at night up here in New England, and all scale houses are closed.

when i hauled for Circuit City, each stop was plywooded off, and that plywood was strapped.

when i hauled for Pepsi,each stop was strapped off.

but those jobs, all scales were open.

so it depends on the companies and pretty much too, the driver.

 

Ehhh in my personal experince its a grey area thing. Usually an officer is just going to eyeball the load and if its something that obviously wont go skidding across the trailer they ignore it. If you piss them off, the load is obviously at risk of flying through a back door or they are looking for an excuse however. Well good luck they are TECHNICALLY allowed to OOS you for unsecured load. But at the same time im not 100% sure on the rule myself. I always just threw a strap or a loadlock over the load because it takes like 5 seconds and my luck tends towards worse case is most likely lol.

Im still waiting to get an OOS for unsecured load in my end dump to be frank.

 

I can only speak to XPO’s rule here:

Any HM, liquid tote or barrel MUST be strapped.
Barrels must either be shrink wrapped or strapped to pallet as well.

Liquid totes and HM must have dunnage placed in front and rear that is strapped.

 

Anyone here spend anytime with Big R back in the day??
Quadrant loading all the local runs….load securement wasn’t even considered

 

I used to use mt pallets to block stuff in and then a strap or load bar

my whole 2-3 years with a van … with a roof anyways

 

Aunt Edna got loaded on top of the roof , and gets strapped down in her rocking chair. when she died. ( in the Vacation movies )
Funny movie , reading you all , it came to mind.

I hope you all ....all stay safe, warm and happy this Christmas, and all of your NEW years are HAPPY.
Thank You for all you do.