This is like starting trucking all over on my first day!

That has been the case with every single one so far. I make sure that chain is tight. The one I am carrying right now is 49900 lb.

This morning when fueling I see ta Roehl flatbed trainee doing a straight line back into a parking spot. His trainer was guiding him in. The student driver was having all the common issues new drivers have with over steering and all.

Now I am trying to imagine learning strapping, chaining, and driving a truck all at once, and I do not even have to tarp the thing.

 

I prefer loading the coil suicide, just seems easier to chain down. Had a mandatory shotgun loaded coil yesterday, 46,900 pounds. I threw on five 10k pound chains crossed like an X. Ratcheted them down as hard as I could,

About 35 miles later I stop to check on them and they had loosened to the point that the edge protectors were falling off. About a hundred miles later they were still slightly loose again. Never really had a problem like this when the coil is loaded suicide.

I am thinking I should have thrown on a sixth chain to make things even out instead of being lazy and using only 5, three going one way and two the other.

Or is this just the way things work?

 

Forgot about going over the top, I do remember the company orientation doing it that way now.