Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Nothing worse than a shipper thinking they know your truck and load better than you.

 

At least I'm hooked back up to my trains for a Sunday overnight loading at a steel plant for some familiar product. Should be easy in and out.

 

I gotta leave Sunday evening also. Felt weird getting home before dark last night. And the super coop was closed when I went passed it!!

 

Nice. I decided to shut down early yesterday then leave at 3:00AM this morning (###### e-logs, I was well rested and ready to roll after 6 hours off but nope).

I prefer to run overnight but it usually doesn't happen. Now that I'm on elogs it'll happen even less... I loved running nights into the mornings on the rare long trip out west or east maxing hours every night.

 

I love running nights but hauling hay it's non existent unless I've already ran all day and night.

 

That's gonna leave a mark. Looks like his chain stayed with the box... LOL People think that these things will not move because they are so heavy. They slide on aluminum real easy. People get real lazy when it comes to throwing chains with these things.

That one is going to be painful, for the wallet. Not only does the piece have to be remade, but they could possibly be charged for the delays in the building of the bridge. It can get real expensive, real quick.

The thing that caused both of these is speed, plain and simple.

 

I really like doing precast stuff, I envy @cnsper with all he does. Some of that stuff (round filter chambers) is really "hmmmmm...how am I going to make sure this stays on". Watching others loading in the yard- throw a few straps & go. I had one guy ask me "what are these & how do they work?"- "those are lifting clutches, sometimes they rent them to contractors if they don't have the big ones & send with the carrier though I personally wouldn't use them for securement, they are for lifting & not rated for enough for transport". He used them.

 

Don't take this the wrong way.
But a grunt in the field knows more about self preservation (IE getting the job done while covering his ***) than any general ever has.
You've been using Company Policy and getting away with hooking to the aluminum pockets on that load king trailer. It looks like has a well built rail.
You say you swap trailers all day. Never try that with a reitnouer. You'll be sorry.
Here's why.
The genius engineer's decided to cut a slot in the rail and tack weld the pocket from the back side. Not even a full height slot. You can see it broke at the beginning of the weld.
This is the 3rd grader welding job on the inside.


This trailer got hit in the corner. I cleaned it up by knocking off the rest of the pockets with a 2# hammer. A HAMMER.
An aluminum stake pocket is only good for hooking bungee cords in my opinion. Take a close look at the rear chain on your coil. Where it comes at an angle out of the pocket. I can guarantee you that 1/4" of aluminum will fail long before anything else. Then you've got nothing holding her back. Down in the bunks and forward, but not back.
Again, I don't mean to bust your chops. The weights and weather you guys play in is more than most ever mess with, but Company Policy mentality only applies to steering wheel holders. The driver is the Captain of the ship at all times whether you own it or not.

 

I appreciate the advice. I'm definitely going to be bringing this issue up at the next meeting, and from now on I'm going to be "captaining my ship" company policy be ###### at this point (your images were mighty illuminating, but we don't have any Retinouer trailers, fortunately), especially with coils.

And I always try and use the posts where I can already. I've never liked the pockets. Round is always better than square in the world of strength (they don't make square submarines for a reason).

 

If their reason is scratching/gouging the trailer using some 4" or even 2" fire hose with the chain threaded through will protect the trailer. For the 2" it'll be easier to thread if you remove the hook and tie a small Rope onto the chain. Thread the rope and then pull the chain through.