I watched a guy tying down finished pine moulding...the really super expensive stuff...with chains and binders.
Every time he'd put the cheater on his winch bar and fit that over the end of the binder and reef down on it the chain would bite through the moulding...CRRRUNCH! Broken wood flying everywhere. He was well on his way to making four foot units out of eight foot units. He was ruining a very expensive load.
He'd mashed his way through about half of the units when I walked up to him and asked, as politley as I could, if he though he might be better off using straps.
He told me he didn't have any. He was a machinery hauler and had never hauled moulding before.
He went back to reefing and crunching.
I asked the forklift driver if he'd said anything to the cruncher. Nope, wasn't his job to tell anybody how to tie down. Union mill of course.
The mill was one of our best customers so I went to the office and suggested that they take a look.
When I came back later that day the broken units and the rest of his load were sitting off by themselves on the ground. The truck was gone.
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One strap over top of unit. No chains or other securment. Unit was sliding on frozen wooden deck when he hit the brakes.Adieu, Badmon, MartinFromBC and 16 others Thank this. -
On my way home Friday night heading east on I90 in ohio I noticed a flatbed west bound on the shoulder with his work lights on and an empty deck. A little while later a driver called out on the cb stating there was some lumber laying in the hammer lane and a 4 wheeler on the side of the road . I told him about the flatbed farther down the road and both may be related. For miles down the road I tried to advise all wb trucks about the lumber and not one answered on the cb. THEN.....Pulling into the last parking spot at my local truck stop I was pulling next to another flatbed with plastic pipe on the deck. A piece of dunnage stowed on his landing gear had walked out 2 feet. I advised the driver and he said it always does that and thanks. Just to find he had nothing holding all that dunnage in place.
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Thursday I was in the fuel line at the J in Perrysburg,Oh I noticed a 4 inch bright yellow strap laying on the ground all bunched up ahead of the pumps. Pulled into the parking lot after fueling and found the answers to my question as why that strap would be laying in the fuel lanes. A flatbed with 2 precast panels loaded upwards the driver was reworking all of his straps. I don't think he had edge protectors under the straps and that cause the one strap failure. It looked like he was putting sections on bright yellow straps about 2ft long between the load and his straps. Don't understand why he left the one strap at the fuel island but some people are that way.
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I've got a load of Can Am's out of Laredo E bound to La for Monday. Dicking around with these and being told 2 4" straps per crate stack (2 tall) wasnt enough (currently sitting with 60k'ish of securment on 12k of load. I had to pull out a 4" ratchet strap from the pass side of the cab, and finished up slightly annoyed. Rolled out with an hour thirty on my clock and 7hrs to home Thurs evening. I had split my sleeper time, so only had to sit for 8hrs. Rolled out at 3:30am, stopped for fuel in Van Horn and found this on my passenger step...
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