Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

I’ve had a piece very similar. I put two chains on the little legs with a little bit less of an angle to provide more down force to the deck. Then I placed a chain in the front and back with rubber matting to protect the product above the legs to provide forward-rearward securement, these two chains were more at a angle as shown as the OP has. Total 4 chains. I cannot tell 100% if this would work on the posters produ I cannot tell 100% if this would work on the poster’s load, but from what I can tell it looks like it would work as in my case . Sorry if I lost anybody ...

 

I would have preferred putting chains from the top...customer was adamant about thats how they wanted it and how they always chain them..i checked with my boss before tarping it...now i have second thoughts on it...will definately be a slow roll...

 

Without better pictures it's hard to say. Putting it up on blocks could help provide better downward force, if it didn't put it overheight, and using four chains, each going from one side of the trailer to a corner of the unit and back to another tie down on the same side would provide better tie down force.

 

Easy in the corners. “Drive the load”. I would secure from the top. What the customer doesn’t know about is your business. Last press break I hauled was only 6k pounds or so. I had two chains hooked to the lifting points on top. One pulling each way so it could tip over.

We haul stacked utility trailers and the customer does all the securing. They put all the straps over the top. You’re not allowed to add any securement on site. So you go down to the truck stop and ad a few guy straps on your first load check.

At the end of the day it’s your ###. “The customer told me this is how everyone does it” means nothing.

 

Without seeing the whole thing there's not much to say. It just feels wrong to me.

 

Forgot my picture.

 

Some loads from last week.
60’x 16’ skin box with brand new light weight 24x40 tarps.


Stacked trailers, tarps, and padding for @catalinaflyer and me for a couple of od load out of Michigan.


Od loads out of Michigan going to Florida.
Nice square load right?


Sike! It’s a right triangle with a piece sticking out 4’ 12’ off the ground.


And an arial shot of both trucks from the drone. Notice that orange piece sticking through my brand new tarp. First freaking load with those tarps. It was compleatly wraped In carpet but the 10oz tarps were not the right tarps for the job. Live and learn.

 

And there's the problem with the flatbed industry. Companies and drivers who don't tell the customer that no, it's getting secured properly before I leave here. So they keep doing the same thing to every other driver and company who picks up there, you are reinforcing bad habits among shippers.

 

I agree 100%, the pressbrake has lift points up high and, the upper frame has to resist the pressure of the brake likely 10X the weight of the machine. The only way I would secure that on the base is with bolted blocking and all thread through the deck with plates on the bottom. If it is only going a few miles maybe, anything more secure it from the top, use carpet if needed but, it is not safe the way it it loaded.

Steve

 

I know. I’m everything that’s wrong with the industry. I have never hauled stacked utility trailers btw. We as a company do but I never have.