Post your flatbed load pictures here

Never heard that one. I'll add it to my list.

KH

 

Tarp More Cargo perhaps?

 

Two Men Cuddling

 

Zing!!!!!!

 

Too Much Chrome

 

Who are we to judge? How else are a couple men supposed to keep warm and keep their idle percentage low at the same time?

 

Believe me, I am not judging.

 

I understand what you're reading, and understand you would use two front and back, as an attempt to be more secure, but when I read the section, I look at it as a minimum requirement first in the 5 feet space, and then look afterward at the rest of the length.

For instance, in the section I copied below and highlighted, (2)(ii) it states 2 tiedowns if the article is longer than 5 feet, but less than or equal to 10 feet. So to me, this means within the first 5 feet of a 10 foot item it wants 2 tiedowns, and then you go to (3) which further indicates (to me at least) that you need 2 tiedowns if the article is longer than 10 feet, and then 1 for every ten feet afterward.

Notice however, (c), and it states that if you have used some immobilization method then you need only use 1 for every 10 feet. In my mind, and per my training, the first 2 tiedowns in the first 5 feet is acting as an immobilization method, so it now isn't counted for the 1 tie down for every 10 feet ...hence in my tiedowns, I will have minimum 3 tiedowns on a 10 foot piece....with 1 strap for each additional 10 feet or fraction thereof.

In other words, the section (b) is telling you the minimum requirements for unblocked cargo (2 straps within the first 5 feet) and then afterward you can use section (c) securement afterward. It's a chronological application to me...either way...like I showed you, I prefer to be oversecured than minimally secured.

 

It may sound stupid but when I pulled a flat with straps and a full load all 14 were used. Never once had a dot problem.

 

I hate to change subject, but have any of you had any trouble from the DOT for hauling bricks without cages?

They are banded together into cubes but I just throw 2 straps over the front set of 2 cubes and then 1 strap over each set behind that, I don't have the cages, I just use corners on all my straps and we have been hauling them as a back haul from new england lately and I have yet to have any come loose.