properly secure and check your loads

*perpendicular

 

I used to load steel mesh sheets (5'x10') 100 PC bundles 7 high. Like a bundle of sheet springs. Those lean like a MF if you don't alternate sides w straps. Lucky me trailer only had straps on one side.

trick: load, strap tightly so load leans. Have forklift operator come from low side and 'lean' product in Til it's straight again. Repeat 2x
one key to this truck is to stay in the loading area/nearby onsite & don't leave Til it's done right.

I would do lighter weight pipe in a similar fashion.

 

i've noticed their speed picking up. since the poster started that slow prime thread couple weeks back.

 

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Stakes are not normally used on bundled, banded "unitized" if you will.....plastic pipe. Generally used on steel pipe. Or REALLY big poly culverts. In your opinion, my friend, from looking t the photo, what good would stakes have done??

 

You can get the load looking like that just from going too fast through an uneven dirt lot. You know how some guys think a big truck is just a big 4x4.

 

I think he probably drove to fast around corners, changed lanes to fast. If your going to drive a flat, you don't want to drive erratic. Then again it could have been an evasive maneuver. Always load and drive as if you are going to encounter the worst case scenario.

 

Ya, that plastic pipe especially is a bugger for this. 4 things you have to do with those loads: A) Strap on multiple tiers. The place I loaded at told you exactly how many straps you needed, where to put em, and on what levels. Needed 11 straps total, 3 on 2nd tier, 3 on 4th, and 5 on 6th. There were somewhat bundled btw, and they loaded 2 tiers at a time, one set on front and one on back. B) Alternate straps where possible, as others have mentioned. C) Use Holy Straps on the load. How do you make straps Holy? You tighten the hell out of them. If you have your straps placed correctly (IE, close to the dunnage) you won't bend the pipe. And if it's the plastic pipe it won't matter much anyway. Don't worry about snapping the strap unless you are like 400 lbs. Winch those suckers down and it helps keep the load stable especially on stuff like this. D) Take curves SLOW. Like 10 mph under the limit slow. Especially curves on a grade. And even more so ones with pothole or other dips. My first real load of plastic pipe like this I actually had the middle of the top tier straight over the left rub rail it had shifted so bad simply because I didn't have the straps properly tightened and took the curve on the on-ramp back to the interstate at speed and hit a pothole. Hello shifted load. While I might have gotten away with it if I had only done one of the 3 things wrong, all 3 made for an... interesting... trip back to the shipper (along with a stop by the Kentucky State Highway Patrol on the first exit ramp north of where I had gotten on at...)