The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

How the heck did that happen?

 

Looks like someone moved without his hogties around the top of those coils. NEVER move slitted coils without hogties! The very most minor of bumps can cause the whole shebang to tip over like this.

And never trust the steel banding to hold them together, either. Chains and binders only.

Source: hauled those buggers for years without losing, shifting, or tipping a single one.

 

Can't just drop that without a story....

Looks like they are unloading, did they just cut through the top of that trailer? They sure can't open it like that.

 

They can't open the Conestoga with the coil laying on the track. Looks like they're planning on setting it upright, them doing what they can to open it.

 

Cut through the top to get the overhead crane involved in setting the coils back upright. Owner of that conestoga is gonna have several kittens when he gets the repair bill for that trailer.

If the driver is not the owner of that trailer, we will undoubtably be meeting him fairly soon when he shows up looking for a new job. That is so big time damage on what appears to be a either a Fasttrack or a Fasttrack II conestoga. Fasttracks are relatively cheap to install (as compared to an Aero or Eagle) but expensive as all get out to repair. That also looks like it might be a single piece tarp, instead of a segmented. Money money money! Repair shop is gonna be REAL happy to see that trailer rolling in.

Edit: That cable setup coming down to lift the coils doesn't look like any overhead crane I'm familiar with. That looks more like one of those wrecker with a turntable or whatever they are called. A roadside call to pick the load up and reset it. Wow, even more money! All to avoid an extra 15 minutes or so of hogtieing the load properly.

Steel haul ain't for the lazy, troops!

 

No story - found it on facebook. Found the 4" strap interesting.

 

It was on one of the tow shows on Discovery. It is a rotater reaching in to upright slit coils that went over.


Oh and howdy men... it's been awhile since I've been here. Kinda quiet 'round here! Lol!

 

It must have been too complicated. A sliding cover? What?

 

The good news:

It doesn't appear the driver lost any of the coils. I'm counting 5 total. 2 in the front and 3 on the rear. That's a common loading pattern for slitted coils.

My eyes aren't good enough to figure the gauge, but I'm figuring that load at 47,000+ in total weight. Based on my own experience in steel haul, where loads pay by the hundred weight, heavier means more money. And those do look about right to be in the 9,4000lb. range.

Slitted coils are squirrelly as all get out. Even secured properly, those buggers can tip on you. My ex grabbed a load out of East Chicago, did absolutely everything right in load securement on a shotgun load, and STILL had the darned thing lean back before she got to Cline Ave. Lucky for her, the securement held and she got the load back to the shipper where they could pick it up with the overhead C crane and reset it.

Slitted coils are the biggest PITA for a steel hauler. So much so that there are entire carriers that flat out refuse to haul them. On the flip side, there are other carriers (like my former employer) who specialized in this type of freight.