Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

I don't haul a lot of coils, and I've never loaded them, but it's steel. "Legal" isn't enough for steel, no matter what it's form. Cover that whole load weight with securement, especially if you have something larger than 15000-20000 lbs.

You have that thing loaded shotgun. That's why they call it shotgun, is that it's loaded, primed and ready to kill at a moments notice. I'm not saying anything about your driving, but if someone t-bones the trailer, or somehow forces you off the road, that coil has a chance to come loose. And personally, I wouldn't ever take that risk. Hell, I would have loaded it suicide and put 10 chains and 10 binders on it. I trust my driving far more than other people on the road.

 

That feeling when you are hauling a steel load, without a tarp (we get "tarp passes" to bring them back to the yard to tarp) and you are racing this:



And get back within about 30 minutes of it hitting:

 

Don't get me wrong I'm not making the argument that more wouldn't be better. I'm making the argument that it was legal. Mostly I was trying to get advice on chain placement as this was my first shotgun coil. I would have hauled it suicide if I could but it was mandatory shotgun. I'd much rather kill myself then someone else.

 

I prefer to haul them shotgun, I think it's easier on the trailer.

 

Nope not quite.......

 

My dad was extremely tight with money. I'm only 44 and we didn't have our first color TV until I was 12 or 13. It was used and most of the time the only color that worked was green.

 

@Macneil And another one with your colors. This is one handsome truck. (even for a cabover) View attachment 146798

 

We had a rotor.. high tech