The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

When I hauled onions from the Imperial Valley to Edmonton I would stand 2 pallets on end at the front and secured with pipe pegs at the bottom and a 2" strap through the middle and pulling back. Cross strapped would have been better and was after the second load.
The pallets let cooling air flow through the middle of the load where plywood would block that air.

 

Would it work if you did like when hauling small palletized lumber. Putting a 4x4 under the first pallet, which lifts the front of the pallet up to keep it from walking forward? Same on the back

 

Yes I found a 4X4 too tall, a rough cut 2X4 or a 3X4 landscape tie worked better.
Not as much gap at the bottom for round onions to fill the void.

 

Problem with restacking is that you wouldn't be able to wrap the stack again, and then they'd really start to move. I wish they put a couple more turns of the fishnet wrap on as it is.

As mentioned, it's Prime... Guy hauling it probably didn't load it anyway.

 

Ive never hauled onions before. Do they actually wrap the pallets? Or is all the sacks just thrown up on top?

 

Well, my experience has been one load lol, but they had a real light fishnet type of wrap on it. One wrap around the stack, 45 bags per pallet, 5 per layer, 9 high, and easily ripped by hand, but still something to help keep the bags where they were supposed to be.

As mentioned by @beastr123 4x4's are too high. Half of my front and rear pallets pretty much broke when they loaded and I "shimmed" the middle of the pallet with scraps of wood to keep them from taco'ing completely. A 2x would be the best for tilting them.

Not a favorite load, but I'd do it again for the right money. Better than securing pallets of 5 gallon buckets, which I say have no business on a flatbed.

 

Occasionally haul some brick/block loads. Have some heavy plastic “Snow” fence.
like 4 ft tall, long enough to go around the load, 100 ft, maybe.
Not heavy, roll is like 25 lbs. comes in useful for more than just brick.

 

Onions suck!! I’ve hauled a couple of loads and they all move around and it seems like the more you strap them the worse they get.
Couple hundred miles no problem… 8 or 900 just can’t keep them together.
There on my Do Not haul list unless there’s big money on them.
They are an exempt commodity too so, you own it it goes bad in any way.

 

Well the white Volvo crowd from Elk Grove, IL apparently knows how to haul them onions!! Gotta put dunnage under first and last skids.

 

Took me a minute to realize the blue and red straps were one piece... lol, I was trying to figure out how/why he put two straps into one winch