Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Those 4x4s between the landing gears will get you a ticket for unsecured load in a few states......

 

A short story about doing that.

Put my 4X4’s in that same place. Had 2 2 inch straps that were loops, they went around the lumber and the frame to hold them.
Got pulled into a scale, rolling across, get the red light to stop. Older gent comes strolling out of the scale house, walks up to the side of the trailer, rates back and try’s to give the 4X’s a good stomp. They didn’t move. Seems he did not see the straps holding them and thought he was about to get a pay day. Needless to say, it must have hurt him good, because he more or less limped and waddled back inside and hit the green light.

 

Up here we get away with tarp straps on them. By our regs dunnage is trucks equipment so load security regs don’t apply. Tarp strap even one end around the landing gear leg or the middle to the cross brace we’re good. That’s chicken #### enforcement for profit applying insecure load to that.

 

Depends how you hold them there.ive got a 2 inch ratchet and short strap bolted to the landing gear crossmember, never had a problem

 

You're lucky he considered it a lesson learned, instead of charging you with assaulting an officer or some such crap.

 

I find it hard to believe they torment people over ridiculous #### like that these days. When I started we used to lay our dunnage boards and binders down the middle of the trailers and lay our chains out over them and drive 700-800mi back up into northern Onterrible or Quebec like that.

 

A few around here still do that.
I personally don't like to give them any reason to take a closer look.

 

Yeah, I wasn't sure what I was seeing there behind the landing gear. It looks like it's a bungee in the front near the handle, but can't tell from the picture, and if it's a bungee, it's illegal..but I gave him the benefit of the doubt that it's a thin black ratchet strap...which would be fine for the restraint if he has it anchored and wrapped around. What I was looking at and agree would be unsecured, would be those ones up under the kneewall supports...I don't see crap holding them together or to the trailer.

 

Can't agree. Regardless of POV, it's equipment and as such is required to be secured, and that means securing it to not come off the trailer, period. Nothing like watching dunnage shake itself out of that pile, and I've seen it happen. Luckily, no one was side swiped by that before the driver got notified. If it's not banded, it's unsecured, and that's a violation. Why do you think many of those megas went to a dunnage storage system on the headache racks? I know I wanted one, but couldn't get it..so I could stop moving the dunnage from place to place and have one spot that it stored at regularly.

 

That’s what I said. It’s trucks equipment and not subject to load security regs. Didn’t say they don’t have to be tied off. On our roads they wouldn’t stay there 15 minutes without being tied off. You just don’t have to use “an approved load security device” to do it. Tarp straps work, or even a piece of rope.