Tips and Tricks of flatbedding

I love you bud but chill out, id offer you one of my sissy bud lights but youd get worked up over that too somehow

 

Im not worked up one bit. Just happens that guys quoting things as law, when they are in fact not law, is my pet peeve this month. Next month it will probably be something else, maybe melton habitually taking their 30 minute break in the fuel island.

 

To be fair the handbook on the fmcsa website still says that tie downs must be within the rubrails, even though that's not in the regs.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw22gcbPN0VTNu_h9x0EgTNi

 

A level 1 is a full inspection, paperwork, securement, light, creeper underneath to check the brakes, ect. No DOT officer is doing all that and making it down as a level two.

 

What if your trailer doesn’t have a rub rail?

 

New Mexico was out in force today.
Got a level 2. If he would have done a brake check, could have a CVSA sticker.

They did go chase down a truck that did not come in.
Wouldn’t want to be that guy.

 

Nice tips and tricks? Anyways you can legally hook to the rub rail although some manufacturers advise against it. Also it says you SHOULD go through the rub rail when PRACTICAL. If you’ve ever have wide oversized loads then you would no what I mean

 

I guess I got lucky today. I rolled into the POE in New Mexico for the first time ever with an oversize. Followed the signs that said to use the left lane, pulled up to the stop sign and waited for one of the arrows to light up. After about 45 seconds I started grabbing gears and left.

Talking to my buddy I guess I was supposed to stay at the stop sign and walk my paperwork into the booth. I guess NM expects me to be a truck driver and a mind reader because there’s no sign that says anything like that.

if the want to see my paperwork they can chase me down I guess.

 

@D.Tibbitt I never knew that's what it was called but I remember watching "Ice Road Truckers" and those guys seemed to do it all the time. I just figured maybe it was a good way to help prevent the strap from freezing onto the winch. Never done it myself though, I prefer using my bar to turn the winch about a quarter turn at a time to coax a frozen strap to unroll

edit: I just read back through this thread a ways and "shortstrapping" was discussed quite vigorously back in August (I must've been at the lake) and a few guys even mentioned frozen straps...my bad...