ok got a insecure load ticket

Shifted Load

usually means

drivers fault !

 

See there....I'm not the only one who catches these "little" issues! And those Squaddies acuse me of being insensitive to spelling flubs....at least I don't shift while moving!

YEP....never seen a load shift sitting in a yard or dock before!!!!

I'm pretty sure it requires some movement and usually a good, or poorly banked curve at a rate of speed that isn't right!

 

He did state he picked it up at their yard which probably means someone brought it there to begin with so it might not have been him. I've had that happen to me at one of our drop yards and one of our drivers loaded it and brought it to the yard. I popped the seal though since that particular receiver never checks it. When I saw how much weight was on the trailer tandems I knew something wasn't right as they load them consistently even at that shipper. Sure enough, two pallets dumped falling back towards the doors.

The way some of the yard dogs fly through the lots at shippers and crank trailers as hard as they can at mach speed to setup for backing, I wouldn't be surprised if they dump quite a few.

 

I was at the mill the other day and an Ozark driver came in and popped the doors on a load that had 7 6,500lb rolls of paper on it. They were all the way in the front of the trailer against the nose. I asked him if he had to lock his brakes up and he said no, he picked it up at the yard in TN and never scaled it or looked inside, just ran it over like that. Pretty good reminder of why you need to look into a dropped trailer to see what is going on inside of it before you take it and to always scale a trailer that has more than a load of Styrofoam on it.

 

You crab a crowbar and wave it at them to show them who's boss.

 

Just another good reason to always be pulling the same trailer !!

 

As long as the rolls are on their sides and blocked thats ok to haul. If they were standing up I doubt I would have touched them either. I'm not sure I can recall getting a load of rolls loaded like that down the center. Usually bunched 3/3 or 4/3 with space between them. One thing I don't care for is a number of mills are doing away with wood blocking and just putting down skid mats under the rolls as if that is going to stop anything.

 

Courtney here picked up a load from a military base wont say which one. BOL said office furniture. The doors were sealed and a weight ticket was supplied. Next day I am coming over the mountains, on a steep grade the whole truck shook. Pulled over to find something had shifted and bent the top and took off the top latches of the doors. Called my dispatch was told to sit there and not move like I was going to continue with a damage set of back doors. About an hour later up comes a state trooper, then another. They escorted me to the next scale, scale guy looks at the doors wants to give me an insecure load ticket. Trooper tell him he cant sealed military load. Had to sit there backed up against the side of the building until the army got there to fix it. Dont know what it was green boxes, big ones.

 

Before air ride suspension nearly every load shifted, the continual vibration from the road would shift the load to the lowest portion of the trailer. If the front of the trailer was an inch lower than the rear then everything moved toward the front, if the rear of the trailer was an inch lower then everything shifted to the rear, but then as mentioned above, hard braking or curves, railroad tracks while braking, all would move the freight to the direction of least resistance. If you load freight against the nose and keep it tight throughout the load you can secure the rear of the load and keep it in place. If you can't load against the nose or against other freight, then blocking is needed. If you will let it move an inch it will pickup momentum, the more it moves the more force it takes to stop it. As mentioned earlier the totes will move around even without much help, blocking needed if loaded down the center.

 

He also did state that "somewhere along the line" the load shifted