Securing that vehicle, help!

Belt around the tire isn’t a problem, but where that’s tied to the deck is. I would have tied off on the stake pocket between the tandem on the front, and the spool behind the tire on the back. You want to pull down on it as much as you can. Your aim with load security is to drive the friction factor up to the point the piece doesn’t move. Something like a big coil or crawler tractors only have to move about a 1/4” before it’s got enough energy in it to part 3/8” chains like overcooked spaghetti and land on the ground. With chains, belts or cables you want to keep them as short as possible. You get more effort on the load that way, and everything stays tight longer.

 

The shorter the strap/chain, the better, more strength put in less feet of space.

 

Example, don’t be these guys...

From the Flatbed fail thread here on TTR.

 

Don’t worry about the tire. What the belt is doing is nothing compared to what happens to it when it hits a messed up frost joint at 65. Tie downs on a vehicle you usually want to pull opposite directions on both ends. Whether it’s off the ends or to the middle doesn’t matter much. You just want the majority of the effort to be down as opposed to fore and aft. But yes, ideally you want to be tied as short as possible. Sometimes you have to work with next best, chaining around other freight for example. Like I said it doesn’t matter if we’re talking chain, cable or a belt short is best. Chain especially, the longer it’s stretched out the more weight you have suspended, and the more it vibrates and works. The more you have strung out the harder it is to keep tight. A short chain even will work loose pretty quick if you have 45lbs of slack chain wrapped around the binder wobbling around. Tie that off someplace else if you can.

 

I just don’t even know what to say…

 

They probably only had 2 chains .
I realize I’m giving them undeserved benefit of the doubt by saying that, lol.

 

Had to think a bit but I came up with something to say. What’s going on there is just wrong in too many ways to describe so I’m not even going to start. But am I weird in thinking the one in all this that needs a sharp slap to the skull is whoever sent those 2 to load coils?