Flatbed Fun: Check Your Mirrors
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Three individual cans of the 7435 lbs load had broken loose!
Oh the horror!
Ya wanna see aluminum cans? Here, my door swinging friend, are some future aluminum cans in their near-raw form I dropped off. 47k lbs worth.
Note the perfect side-load dock parking job. 3" clearance. And y'all say us knuckle draggers can't back.
OOS:
When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.
What impresses me, and is often comic relief, is watching a long nosed Pete or a W900 trying to back a 20 foot shipping container into a dock.
Three individual cans of the 7435 lbs load had broken loose!
Oh the horror!
Ya wanna see aluminum cans? Here, my door swinging friend, are some future aluminum cans in their near-raw form I dropped off. 47k lbs worth.
Note the perfect side-load dock parking job. 3" clearance. And y'all say us knuckle draggers can't back.
Looks like that one in Wisconsin. Two winters ago, unloading in -20 at that place. Stiff tarps.
OOS:
When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.
Yup, 2 of the 3 boards under the top bundle snapped, causing the bundle to drop and loosening 2 of the 4 straps considerably.
The moral of this story is to check your mirrors often to eyeball your load. Also, the extra securement I had on the load kept the load from shifting, even when half the securement was compromised.
All I had to do was just tighten the straps down again. Although snapped, the dunnage is still under the bundle. I also had 2 cinch straps and a belly over the bottom 2 bundles. Them babies weren't going anywhere.
I'll never forget a few years ago in Orlando, a flatbed loaded with mulch took a left-hand turn and all the mulch bundles on the right hand side of the trailer fell off. He was on the side of the road scratching his head as if he was thinking, "How the Hell am I going to get out of this?"
OOS:
When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.
Go turtle great show. Like the topic. Would there be any extra precautions you would take unstrapping that? The biggest daydream fear I have is of pipes, beams, or lumber falling upon unstrap.
Go turtle great show. Like the topic. Would there be any extra precautions you would take unstrapping that? The biggest daydream fear I have is of pipes, beams, or lumber falling upon unstrap.
The bundles are individually banded with metal bands before being placed on my deck, so there isn't much danger of anything falling on me. That said, I'm always ready to duck and dodge, or run for the bushes when I'm unstrapping a load. You just never know.
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I just delivered a load of empty aluminum cans, and that load had shifted, too. Three individual cans of the 7435 lbs load had broken loose!
Guess I shut the doors to hard?
OOS:
When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.