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Actually that's OK, they dropped the rule where they must be inside the rail.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the 2 chains are at leased crossed.

 

I understand that, but I totally disagree with it. If he was consistent I wouldn't have noted it BUT when he get's it right with all but one he's a moron.

 

News to me if they changed that rule for flats etc with legal loads.
As soon as an idiot puts all his straps on the outside and then cuts them all by rubbing into something caused a fatality, I guess they will make it law again though.
I always thought they called it a RUB rail for a reason, not a "securement" rail, as I still see guys with chains and straps hooked to the rub rail.
Only time I could remotely understand running a strap on the outside of the rub rail is if there is no other choice of where the strap goes, and there is a post directly behind it etc. But with dunnage, I honestly doubt this to be the case here.

Martin

 

Thats funny!!!!!

They are the biggest bunch of morons! They need to go back to roll up door freight...

 

Just be glad you dont have to put up with them in Rockport. One bout backed over a fork lift driver not long ago. I could hear the asschomping the driver was getting 75 feet away.

 

From JJ Keller.

If a guys ability to keep a load on his trailer is riding on his straps not being cut when he drags his rub rail on something has bigger issues than the location of his straps. Goes right along with companies ordering autoshift transmissions in order to hire drooling steering wheel holders. (buying an autoshift because your tired of shifting is different from requiring one in order to get the truck out of the lot)

 

I love to see stuff like that. I watched a driver totally ignore a crane operator blowing his siren. The operator was standing beside me running the crane by remote loading my trailer and the other driver kept walking totally oblivious. He stopped the crane, looked at me and said "this is going to be fun" and kicked it into drill sargent mode. I thought I was watching the beginning of Full Metal Jacket by the butt chewing he was laying down.

 

Agreed, kind of.
##### happens though, and someone else could rub that rail, not only the driver.
I look at it this way myself...
Name one single downfall of have all securement INSIDE the rub rail? None I can think of.
But downfalls can be named if the securement is outside the rub rail though can't it?
Get my point?
I still say its lazy in the least, and possibly dangerous from there on out.
I dont have the "luxury" of a rub rail on my RGN, but I take every precaution otherwise. No extra time worth mentioning, and could possibly save a life one day.
Just my .02 though

Martin

 

2 48' lengths of 5' diameter pipe, plus 42 couplings. Had 3'8" of overhang on the back and 4" off the front. Pipe wasnt an issue. The couplings were nothing but problems. Ended up with 5 straps on the couplings alone. Just to keep um in place. Dropped at a jobsite in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming on a dirt road thats covered in ice and snow. Which was fine... til I got into the mud. That sucked.

A load of A/C units heading for Ga and Tn

 

Those AC units look like gravy.