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Then they aren't teaching the letter of the current rules. Read your link. Minimum of 2 straps and one per 10 feet. There's nothing there about 2 in the first ten feet.

 

They don't have a section covering loads longer than 10 feet not being blocked against forward movement, so the website's section on general securement requirements is incomplete.

And I'm trying to understand why you are so adamant to prove me wrong? Isn't more always better?

 

Yes more is better but I keep seeing it posted as gospel and it's just not true, or at least nobody has shown it to be true. It's a pet peeve.

 

Says it right there in black and white. It's metric but if you need help with the math just ask.

 

Sorry my friend, you are wrong. Pay close attention to Subsection 3 and 3c.

eCFR — Code of Federal Regulations

I knew I've seen it in plain writing before (I usually open my Green Bible itself, not just the cargo securement handbook), but I guess the simplified website doesn't quote the regulations exactly.

 

Well, you beat me to it. Haha. And actually got the print version as well.

I should bring a copy home.

 

I think it was $8 or $12 to have it printed and bound. I had my green book out for something last week and not sure where it is right now.

 

Then I stand corrected. You're the first to actually show proof that I've seen.

 

I've got a ticket on my driving record for only having two straps on a 12' piece of barrier wall, that not so nice DOT officer explained it to me on the side of the road.