X chains on coils

They changed that, we've beat this up like the strap in rub rail thing here's the new wording.



It's to "another point on the vehicle" instead of other side.

 

Here's the link https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/cargo-securement/cargo-securement-rules

 

That's an opinion piece written by a federal employee who doesn't fully understand the law.

Title 49 is federal law, if you go to court that is what the judge will look at first. If this was a confusing law then the opinion piece might be taken into account, but it's not confusing at all.

 

The rule they are using is probably 393.104 (f)(4)
Edge protection must be used whenever a tiedown would be subject to abrasion or cutting at the point where it touches an article of cargo. The edge protection must resist abrasion, cutting and crushing.

That argument could go either way depending on the Judge. I would imagine anywhere that is giving out tickets for it has had success prosecuting those tickets.

 

I'll have to dig a little deeper on this one, the fmcsa being an opinion piece is throwing me a little. They seem to have a heck of a lot of authority to just be issueing opinions.

 

Well, there's a reason why I didnt mention WLL, because I don't consider a horseshoe pull to be direct securement because just about every other chain on a shotgun coil runs through the eye and back too.

The thing that differs between direct and indirect is in order to be effective, direct has to have an opposite pull to work. Indirect pulls the load to the trailer. That being said, a shotgun coil would have to be secured evenly to the effective.
That's why I would put 6 chains on any shotgun weighing more than 25k. And 8 for more than 45k.

 

Is there a rule to follow, or at least rule of thumb, for the number of coil bunks to use? 2 for 20,000, 3 for 30,000, etc? Is there a WLL for them?

And should you try to place them on the main beams, or just throw them anywhere?

 

Would someone explain to me how 2 chains touching each other, which are of the same material, is somehow damaging in such a way that it you must either not do it or put in edge protection to stop it, and using those same chains on numerous different types of equipment and loads isn't?

Sure we use edge protection, but that's to protect the load... there is no law saying we have to use it to protect the chains unless I've missed something? What law does DOT quote when saying this?