No seal and load rejection scenario.

How do people that pull flatbeds deal with this issue?

 

Seals used mostly with food loads.

 

We don't....... well except for the load in Wisconsin. Most stuff on a flat requires a crane or at least a forklift. Then they would have to untarp it then take the chains off. Hell thats my job and I don't even want to do it!!! Lol

 

What kind of lock are you using Rollin? I used to lock my trailer with a regular key lock. One night a "kind thief" I wanna call him. Cut around the hasp but left my seal intact. Washers and dryers couldn't take anything by hand. Saved my load of course security didn't recognize it. 3 weeks ago someone cut the thick chain wrapped around my recap spare locked with the same lock and stole it. Orlando for you.... I'm debate between a warlok or a Cargo Door.. recommendations?

 

One of those stainless steel locks that is round shaped. You won't cut it off with big bolt cutters but a cutoff wheel on a cordless grinder would make quick work of it or the latches. What kind of thief has time for that though? I do know some dumb SOB cut the latches on @double yellow off his empty trailer when it was parked for his home time. Nothing you can do to deter someone determined but don't make it easy for them. I have heard of those seal covers to keep some ### hole from ripping your seal off for spite. Sounds like something all of us box and reefer guys should have

 

Those round locks are great until you lose the key or it gets dirt or crud in it and key won't go in... more of a winter time problem.. why I use a decent lock that can still be cut..

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Or a few drops of super glue...

 

Heat works wonders on any lock in the winter. There are various sprays and lubricants also that work well. I broke a key off in one during the winter after it froze up. Now I keep a butane torch handy. Luckily that time I was at an LTL yard and there was a Ryder service truck doing maintenance on trailers. The mechanic cut that stainless lock off real quick with an air cutoff wheel and didn't charge me anything. They're easy to cut off you just need the right tool.

 

When I ran reefer that was what I did also.