The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

Part Deux:

 

Oh I agree with you, on a lot of freight like that you throw until you're satisfied, and then a couple more for piece of mind.

One thing comes to mind that can be a pain... greasy bars, especially ones that are polished and round. If a driver thinks he's got too much on it, they'd better throw some more, until there is no doubt it's too much. Even then it probably won't be enough.

 

That was a rough day.

 

That's an expensive fubar!
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Totally agree with you on this, but I'll go you one further I learned the hard way.
Bulkhead, must be tight, and HIGH enough at BOTH ends. I only had slight movement because of the straps (a lot of them) and cinch straps...and it still moved...a little...because I left room for the chain to be manipulated in front of the load. When I went to unload, I had to take the bulhead apart, first, because it had moved into the bulkhead.

Had it not been for the snap binder being at the top of the load height, I very may well have had at least one bar come sliding out...but the snap binder stopped it.

 

Yes, sir it was. And an expensive one. Even as a company driver, I paid for my mistakes. $700.00 towing bill to help reposition the load. The one thing I'm glad of, as you can see from the pics, is that I always strap and hook inside the rub rail. Had that been attached at the rub rail itself or on the outside, no telling what would have happened.

 

cool looking truck tho

 

id be interested to see how that was loaded. may have been a ####ty loading job that done that.

 

The problem is, it was late day, bosses had already gone home, so, they were trying to get out of there, too. They started loading with hardwood lumber, the front part of the load uses that and didn't move. It was the back that they ran out and started using 2x4's to space them out for...of all things, to cover it with that foam you see, to keep from damaging the powder coat paint job that had been done to it, because it was the second time they had to do it.

That should have been the clue. I wasn't happy about it, and all my hardwood dunnage is what was on the bottom levels. When I got to the job and explained what had happened, he said it didn't matter, because he could see the job was screwed up again, because it was already rusting under the paint job. Offered to take it back to them, and he said no, he had to have it out with them anyway. I still should have insisted, but the load looked like it was holding well, and it did, almost to the job site, since the problem showed up right after I had stopped just before Tenaha to tighten it, and when I came out of the curve coming out of Tenaha, I looked in my side mirrors...and..

Luckily, that's right where the road widens and I was able to pull over pretty quickly out of the traffic flow. Still, it could have been worse.

 

That was my first thought, is the stickers broke underneath all that stuff and it collapsed. no amount of straps are going to keep it from moving after that because they will all be loose at that point. That just sucks man. But I really don't think that was your fault, other than maybe you had that gut feeling it wasn't right and still went with it. But we live to learn another day. All that matters is u or anyone else didn't get hurt