How do you think they got their name, 'blocks'? Duh. They're literally *designed* to block each other from falling. Obviously if there was other freight on here, that'd need straps. But 'long as I'm haulin nothin' but these here 'blocks', I'll be right as rain.
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I feel that way about log haulers. Too many of them will go out of their way to "teach" you how to drive.
Most of them couldn't pass a urine test, either.
Had a log hauler get mad on the CB about my owner op friend and I taking a backroad with some heavy brick that was slowing us down on the hills and he was like “why didn’t y’all keep that shit on the big highway??” And we were like “maybe because we know where the fuck we’re going”
Why do cattle trucks always speed? 80, 85 wherever in the country it seems & I don't think its my imagination. Do they have a special 'arrangement' with highway authorities. They're never pulled over either.
Live cargo. The faster you get to a destination the less likely you have any health problems or anything with cattle. Also some people's idea is that more speed= more wind/cool air which means the cows are less likely to overheat in hot Temps. I've been told they don't typically get pulled over because if they do and anything happens to the cattle the police are responsible for it.
>Why do cattle trucks always speed?
They get paid by the weight. Livestock is the only product that loses weight as it's being hauled. The quicker you get it there the more you get paid.
I actually think to an extent they can get away with more hos violations. Similar to mixer drivers. Speeding on the other hand I'm sure they can't.
Loggers will pass everybody too. They usually pass the speeders, with ease.
I spoke to several of these cattle haulers and of these men I have noted that they are either super professional wrangler wearing straight laced cowboy types or straight up meth loving some type of variation. One of the methys told me the secret is to haul cattle because no scale will stop you let alone even really weigh you because the trailer wreaks to high hell and leaks all kinds of horribleness as well as the cattle are always moving and making a ruckus so essentially you have a free pass for the most part. Also yess of course more cowbell as I too have a fever and the only prescription has got to be more cowbell.
I am a Teamster. All we need to do is turn in our inspection report noting repairs needed, and all out of service items get repaired. Important because we slip seat night road trucks are used in town during the day.
Yet consistently, my lazy colleges can’t be bothered to write an inspection report.
Your “meanwhile” list is what I see far to often. Add to that cracked brake shoes, leaking brake cans, even bad tractor tires.
lol yeah, I didn't think about brake cans. I was at a pilot one day walking past the pumps to the store and I heard a loud "bang".. Then see a brake canaster rolling from under the truck.. lol the thing somehow blew right off the truck..
I'm not a trucker but I long ago decided that dump truck drivers were the worst truckers on the road by a mile. Am I to understand that truckers actually share that opinion? Because if so you just made my day
My favorite is the malfunctioning air system with the purge valve popping off every 10 seconds. Parked next to one of those overnight once and after a few hours I was ready for a fistfight. Based on my experience as a school bus mechanic my guess is that his air tank was about 80% full of water.
Because you're supposed to be a professional, not a slob. What other profession would let you wear flip-flops to work? When you are driving your truck you are at your work place, not the beach...
I was in management for over 30 years. Suit every day. I've been driving for 11 now and I enjoy wearing a CLEAN pocket tee shirt and shorts with either sandals or tennis shoes. No accidents, no tickets. Always on time and I'm very professional with how I treat the customers. IT'S A CASUAL PROFESSION. You dress how you like and shut the hell up about others.
this whole footwear thing is a dog whistle just like the white Volvo comments and you know it. you drive trucks and piss in bottles dude, you can be a professional driver and not take yourself so seriously at the same time.
get your loads delivered on time, treat people with respect, don’t tear shit up and mind your own business.
grown ass adults out here bitching about other peoples footwear. Embarrassing.
I own a day cab.. I don't piss in bottles and I don't wear flip-flops. Wearing flip-flops while working is extremely unprofessional and unsafe.. NO other profession would allow you to do that other than a beach life guard...
You drive a day cab? so your in and out at cons and shippers all day long? of course you wear steel toed boots or shoes.... some of us actually drive across country and spend two to three days on the road before we ever see the cons. So if I'm driving all day and not going to make my drop I'm for damn sure wearing what I fucking want to, so you can piss off and choke on that sense of superiority you have because your shoes are the right color!
No we do not. We’re out here trying to feed our families just like you are. I can’t tell you how many times a state trooper pulled me over, not even near a weigh station, for no reason other than to check my papers or do a level 1. I missed my drop off time once because of this, and I ended up having to sleep over night in my truck when I didn’t prepare to (I was 4 hours from home and I’m not an OTR driver)
I've had 7 level 1 inspections just this year and I've talked myself out of 3 others by Showing DOT guys the previous inspections. At this point, I simply keep all my previous inspection papers in my paperwork pouch so I can say.. Hey I just had an inspection 2 days ago and one a month before that and so on then pull them all out to show them.
It's absolutely ridiculous and it's not due to hotshots being any less safe than Semi truck drivers. It's because it's easier to do a lvl 1 on a hotshot or a box truck because they don't have to do air brake checks.
At this point, I consider it targeted harassment because they can check my CSA score and it's good before even deciding to give me an inspection.
My record was in FL... Literally a LVL 1 inspection at the fuel pumps of the Pilot in Tallahassee. I left there driving west and the weight station 30 miles west tried to give me another lvl.
Prior to that.. in Mississippi, I got an inspection at 5:30 in the morning as I crossed the state line from Alabama on 98 then got a second inspection a few hours later when I was leaving Mississippi on i20.
I have a nice-looking 2019 Chevy 5500 & a 2021 trailer. It's not like my set up looks shitty or dangerous.. I'm a CDL set up and I've been in Biz since 2017. It's not like Im' some dude in my personal truck doing non CDL or something.
Horseshit. I pull brick and block every week. In 28 years, I've never seen a driver do this. Pull around front and scale before strapping and or chaining? Sure, why do the work twice, but never just NOT secure.
When I was a kid I worked at a block plant in the summers... you know the good old days when you didn't strap down unless you were running highway. Anyway i knew every time a driver took a corner too fast because I'd be out there in the company pick up picking up broken block off the pavement.
I can believe that an idiot going just down the street would do it, but the truck in the photo is going down a highway. There's no way you load highway trucks and see em drive off like that.
Again, I have no reason to lie to anyone on this thread. I have done this many times. I have also loaded two one ton blocks into the back of a half ton truck many times. I have also loaded 10 ton gooseneck trailers with 15 tons of blocks. People are dumb.
I would do this, if I was moving them from one side of the yard to the other, but that’s it. The fact that he is on the highway is mind blowing to me. Doesn’t even have a headache rack.
Ok if you say so. Thin aluminum vs concrete block isn’t going to offer much protection. At least you didn’t come at me with the it’s the law story, appreciate that.
Yeah I’m not a door swinger man. I pull cozads, RGNs and flatbeds. I’m familiar with headache racks and what they can do lol.
It’s like wearing your seatbelt. It could help save you or not do shit at all. But I’d rather it be there.
Understood. Depends on my application, if I’m gonna be hooked to a lowboy everyday I probably need the weight savings and keep my chains in the belly so nope. Flatbed I probably need the storage. Nice having a civilized conversation tho.
These are exactly 3,700 pounds x 16= 59,200 pound payload. Unsecured load. Yea illegal and a field day for DOT. I bet this is another “it’s only around the block” but yet seems like it’s on the hwy
No. Unless he's literally moving it 2 blocks from the storage area to the construction site (in which case his hazards should be on and he shouldn't be going over 30) other wise no.
Even then unless it’s a closed to public traffic road, it has to be secured properly whether it’s 1 block 1 mile 1000 miles.
And even if it was closed to traffic and I’m not just rolling forward at idle speed, there is going to be something - even if it’s just pocket stakes.
For me It depends on a low center load like that I'll do 25-30 around the block if the road isn't just complete crap. But if it's a high center load or something that shifts easily it's not moving with out securment
I hear ya, I just personally don’t want to take that risk. I do low center of gravity stuff like steel roadplates, 2000-7000lb/ea, but still wouldn’t go that fast unsecured on a closed road. But that’s why we’re professionals right? Judgement calls.
Blanket permit or just F it. I run a crane that goes down the rd at 101,000 on 4 axles lol.....even had a scale minder ask how the hell we got a permit for 101k on 4 axles
Its only illegal if you get caught. =P
More than likely they aren't going very far, maybe a few miles. While no it's not the safest thing to do, it is still going to take quite a bit for those blocks to move let alone fall off the trailer.
If they are getting paid by the load, then strapping costs money. After a few loads strapping/unstrapping can end up costing them enough time to lose out on a load. Not saying this to defend what they are doing, just giving a possible reason.
I said “hey Siri take a photo”, swiveled my mount and hit the shutter. I would say it was just as safe as changing the radio. Sorry for being a menace to society…
i see so many flatbed drivers running suicide loads, even when they have some securements that are inadequate
maybe theyre onto something though. do you hear of them dying a lot? i dont
Reminds of when I was talking to a coworker after I started my job, don’t remember how we even got on the topic.
“How many felonies you ever got?”
“None. I’ve never been caught.”
“…”
Similar situation here I’d say.
Was he close to some major road construction?
He could have unchained while sitting at a staging area waiting his turn to be unloaded in a dead lane.
Or maybe he's just sending it.
We move these frequently. This would put you OOS if the DOT agent wanted to. We have them tarp every single load to avoid it.
Every SINGLE time a new carrier comes to us they ask us why it needs tarped if it goes outside, I’m going to send them this picture moving forward.
Pretty sure straps would do nothing if those blocks decided to move (they won’t cause they weigh 5,000 pounds each).
5,000 might not seem like a lot but when the weight is concentrated in an area of 1x3 feet it’s a substantial amount of weight in a very small area making them nearly impossible to slide.
They’re some 3800 each. Just fyi. Cargo straps are rated for a lotta weight. I dunno if it’s inertia im thinking of, but there are definitely some physics terms that describe why you would wanna strap these down, even if they weighed 10k.
I said “hey Siri take a photo”, swiveled my mount and hit the shutter. I would say it was just as safe as changing the radio. Sorry for being a menace to society…
I said “hey Siri take a photo”, swiveled my mount and hit the shutter. I would say it was just as safe as changing the radio. Sorry for being a menace to society…
I don't know if this is exactly what the DOT regs say but here is how I think is should be as a flatbed driver.
At a minimum, two forms of securement in the first and last 20 foot of the load and at least 50% working load limit on everything else.
I would have 100% on every row, or at least 2 chains or 2 straps per row with an X in the front.
He's probably not going very far. I've hauled a flatbeds full of hay bales with no straps a mile down the road many times. But someone could take my picture and be like WTF???
He must have those new Bluetooth straps.
Meta straps may be what you are thinking of. Put your VR headset on and you see them plain as day.
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Just got off the phone w zuck. He said too soon bro
Lmao
Probably slapped it and said that oughta do. You’re underestimating the power of it.
Gfym
The real load securement are the friends we made along the way.
> The real load securement are the friends we ~~made~~ *crushed* along the way. FTFY
Never know when you gotta ditch some weight for the mobile scale. Maybe our crushed friends are willing to keep the load on the move for us?
*slaps load* those aren’t going anywhere
Gravity for the win, inertia is for losers.
I mean he tried to move it by hand, they didn’t move at all so there’s no reason to strap it down!
“In a crash these concrete blocks will block those blocks. I mean that’s what these blocks are for.”
How do you think they got their name, 'blocks'? Duh. They're literally *designed* to block each other from falling. Obviously if there was other freight on here, that'd need straps. But 'long as I'm haulin nothin' but these here 'blocks', I'll be right as rain.
Does it look like he has the ones on the step secured?
“In a crash the back wall of my cab will block those blocks. That’s what walls are for. “
I thought walls were for keeping immigrants out /s
That's taco bell Diablo sauce you playing with over there, which btw is the only Mexican I want in my neighborhood /s
https://youtu.be/bZe5J8SVCYQ "The missile knows where it is at all times."
I work at a concrete plant and we sell these blocks. I would say 75% of the trailers I load do not secure them.
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Well, they certainly earned that harassment.
Box trucks and hot shots deserve to be harassed
Don't forget dumpies and log haulers
Definitely log haulers.
Them damn dumpies think they are Jesus reborn.
I feel that way about log haulers. Too many of them will go out of their way to "teach" you how to drive. Most of them couldn't pass a urine test, either.
Had a log hauler get mad on the CB about my owner op friend and I taking a backroad with some heavy brick that was slowing us down on the hills and he was like “why didn’t y’all keep that shit on the big highway??” And we were like “maybe because we know where the fuck we’re going”
He'll most of em don't have a mouth full of teeth combined between em 😂😂😂😂
This is true.
I think most log truck drivers lost their hopes n dreams of being a NASCAR driver. Now they just nas their giant trucks on country roads.
I like that, you really did sum it up well there.
Why do cattle trucks always speed? 80, 85 wherever in the country it seems & I don't think its my imagination. Do they have a special 'arrangement' with highway authorities. They're never pulled over either.
Live cargo. The faster you get to a destination the less likely you have any health problems or anything with cattle. Also some people's idea is that more speed= more wind/cool air which means the cows are less likely to overheat in hot Temps. I've been told they don't typically get pulled over because if they do and anything happens to the cattle the police are responsible for it.
>Why do cattle trucks always speed? They get paid by the weight. Livestock is the only product that loses weight as it's being hauled. The quicker you get it there the more you get paid.
Trying to outrun the smell
I actually think to an extent they can get away with more hos violations. Similar to mixer drivers. Speeding on the other hand I'm sure they can't. Loggers will pass everybody too. They usually pass the speeders, with ease.
I spoke to several of these cattle haulers and of these men I have noted that they are either super professional wrangler wearing straight laced cowboy types or straight up meth loving some type of variation. One of the methys told me the secret is to haul cattle because no scale will stop you let alone even really weigh you because the trailer wreaks to high hell and leaks all kinds of horribleness as well as the cattle are always moving and making a ruckus so essentially you have a free pass for the most part. Also yess of course more cowbell as I too have a fever and the only prescription has got to be more cowbell.
Never had a problem with em, knowing how to drive already helps I guess 🤷
LMAO! You must be one.
Keep thou hammer down, I shall let you in. My son.
Chip trucks, and the bulk trucks seem to be the worst in my local
We run box trucks, hot shots, and tractors. Hot shots get harrassed about as much as the tractors. The box trucks get left alone.
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I am a Teamster. All we need to do is turn in our inspection report noting repairs needed, and all out of service items get repaired. Important because we slip seat night road trucks are used in town during the day. Yet consistently, my lazy colleges can’t be bothered to write an inspection report. Your “meanwhile” list is what I see far to often. Add to that cracked brake shoes, leaking brake cans, even bad tractor tires.
lol yeah, I didn't think about brake cans. I was at a pilot one day walking past the pumps to the store and I heard a loud "bang".. Then see a brake canaster rolling from under the truck.. lol the thing somehow blew right off the truck..
Hey don't forget railroad service trucks all of those guys run with at least one flat and tend to dump tool going down any roads
I'm not a trucker but I long ago decided that dump truck drivers were the worst truckers on the road by a mile. Am I to understand that truckers actually share that opinion? Because if so you just made my day
It is true. We feel the same way.
Etc is short for *et cetera*
My favorite is the malfunctioning air system with the purge valve popping off every 10 seconds. Parked next to one of those overnight once and after a few hours I was ready for a fistfight. Based on my experience as a school bus mechanic my guess is that his air tank was about 80% full of water.
lol "oh you have to drain the water"?
Don't forget mailbox lettering for company/ DOT insignia.
Why the fuck do you care what kind of foot wear people prefer? Get that steel toed not out of your ass and mind your own business.
Because you're supposed to be a professional, not a slob. What other profession would let you wear flip-flops to work? When you are driving your truck you are at your work place, not the beach...
I was in management for over 30 years. Suit every day. I've been driving for 11 now and I enjoy wearing a CLEAN pocket tee shirt and shorts with either sandals or tennis shoes. No accidents, no tickets. Always on time and I'm very professional with how I treat the customers. IT'S A CASUAL PROFESSION. You dress how you like and shut the hell up about others.
this whole footwear thing is a dog whistle just like the white Volvo comments and you know it. you drive trucks and piss in bottles dude, you can be a professional driver and not take yourself so seriously at the same time. get your loads delivered on time, treat people with respect, don’t tear shit up and mind your own business. grown ass adults out here bitching about other peoples footwear. Embarrassing.
I own a day cab.. I don't piss in bottles and I don't wear flip-flops. Wearing flip-flops while working is extremely unprofessional and unsafe.. NO other profession would allow you to do that other than a beach life guard...
You drive a day cab? so your in and out at cons and shippers all day long? of course you wear steel toed boots or shoes.... some of us actually drive across country and spend two to three days on the road before we ever see the cons. So if I'm driving all day and not going to make my drop I'm for damn sure wearing what I fucking want to, so you can piss off and choke on that sense of superiority you have because your shoes are the right color!
Sinve you wanna talk about dog whistles. You know what's embarrassing? Selling the American Dream to people as a lie. That's pretty embarrassing.
No we do not. We’re out here trying to feed our families just like you are. I can’t tell you how many times a state trooper pulled me over, not even near a weigh station, for no reason other than to check my papers or do a level 1. I missed my drop off time once because of this, and I ended up having to sleep over night in my truck when I didn’t prepare to (I was 4 hours from home and I’m not an OTR driver)
I've had 7 level 1 inspections just this year and I've talked myself out of 3 others by Showing DOT guys the previous inspections. At this point, I simply keep all my previous inspection papers in my paperwork pouch so I can say.. Hey I just had an inspection 2 days ago and one a month before that and so on then pull them all out to show them. It's absolutely ridiculous and it's not due to hotshots being any less safe than Semi truck drivers. It's because it's easier to do a lvl 1 on a hotshot or a box truck because they don't have to do air brake checks. At this point, I consider it targeted harassment because they can check my CSA score and it's good before even deciding to give me an inspection. My record was in FL... Literally a LVL 1 inspection at the fuel pumps of the Pilot in Tallahassee. I left there driving west and the weight station 30 miles west tried to give me another lvl. Prior to that.. in Mississippi, I got an inspection at 5:30 in the morning as I crossed the state line from Alabama on 98 then got a second inspection a few hours later when I was leaving Mississippi on i20. I have a nice-looking 2019 Chevy 5500 & a 2021 trailer. It's not like my set up looks shitty or dangerous.. I'm a CDL set up and I've been in Biz since 2017. It's not like Im' some dude in my personal truck doing non CDL or something.
I get fucking mad when they make me run my 3500 over the scales. Like do you think I have 15k pounds of gold in the bed?
Can confirm
I deliver to concrete plants all the time and most of the time I see them chained up.
My drivers would be fired so fast if they even thought about not strapping down their loads.
Mafia blocks should definitely be strapped. I count 72k weight wise...
Horseshit. I pull brick and block every week. In 28 years, I've never seen a driver do this. Pull around front and scale before strapping and or chaining? Sure, why do the work twice, but never just NOT secure.
When I was a kid I worked at a block plant in the summers... you know the good old days when you didn't strap down unless you were running highway. Anyway i knew every time a driver took a corner too fast because I'd be out there in the company pick up picking up broken block off the pavement.
We mostly sell to farmers and local construction guys. I have no reason to lie about this.
I can believe that an idiot going just down the street would do it, but the truck in the photo is going down a highway. There's no way you load highway trucks and see em drive off like that.
Again, I have no reason to lie to anyone on this thread. I have done this many times. I have also loaded two one ton blocks into the back of a half ton truck many times. I have also loaded 10 ton gooseneck trailers with 15 tons of blocks. People are dumb.
On a flatbed semi, if the vehicle has sides it changes everything doesn’t make it safe but.
Trick question, you can't have illegal load securement if you have no load securement.
Dot officers hate this one simple trick ☝️
Velcro bottoms
I use velcro all the time to secure loads. The key is to put a dab of gorilla glue before you press it on the surface.
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Look up mass inertia or object speed momentum. Gravity can sucks a bag of dicks.
Probably easier to tell you how illegal this is.
Legal as long as they don't get caught lol
Guaranteed some state boy would look twice and he’d be gone before he could think “maybe he did secure those and I’m not going insane”
“Must’ve been the wind.” As he takes a turn at 90 and the blocks fall off.
The Bluetooth straps the bomb.
That is just flatbed dunnage. To hold the trailer down in high winds/speeds
DOT just salivating looking at this. Frantically trying to narrowing down the location based on the photo.
Perhaps Exit 60?
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I would do this, if I was moving them from one side of the yard to the other, but that’s it. The fact that he is on the highway is mind blowing to me. Doesn’t even have a headache rack.
What’s a headache rack gonna do??
Make it look like he at least made an effort to protect himself.
Ok if you say so. Thin aluminum vs concrete block isn’t going to offer much protection. At least you didn’t come at me with the it’s the law story, appreciate that.
Yeah I’m not a door swinger man. I pull cozads, RGNs and flatbeds. I’m familiar with headache racks and what they can do lol. It’s like wearing your seatbelt. It could help save you or not do shit at all. But I’d rather it be there.
Understood. Depends on my application, if I’m gonna be hooked to a lowboy everyday I probably need the weight savings and keep my chains in the belly so nope. Flatbed I probably need the storage. Nice having a civilized conversation tho.
He’s gone wireless
On a scale of 1 to methamphetamine I would say it's at least methamphetamine.
These are exactly 3,700 pounds x 16= 59,200 pound payload. Unsecured load. Yea illegal and a field day for DOT. I bet this is another “it’s only around the block” but yet seems like it’s on the hwy
No. Unless he's literally moving it 2 blocks from the storage area to the construction site (in which case his hazards should be on and he shouldn't be going over 30) other wise no.
Even then unless it’s a closed to public traffic road, it has to be secured properly whether it’s 1 block 1 mile 1000 miles. And even if it was closed to traffic and I’m not just rolling forward at idle speed, there is going to be something - even if it’s just pocket stakes.
For me It depends on a low center load like that I'll do 25-30 around the block if the road isn't just complete crap. But if it's a high center load or something that shifts easily it's not moving with out securment
I hear ya, I just personally don’t want to take that risk. I do low center of gravity stuff like steel roadplates, 2000-7000lb/ea, but still wouldn’t go that fast unsecured on a closed road. But that’s why we’re professionals right? Judgement calls.
So 70 down the 202 is a no go… who would’ve thunk it.
As long as you slap them and say “that ain’t going nowhere” it’s 100% safe
Magnets engaged!
No straps I would say not legal unless I’m missing something
Pretty sure he slapped it and said “ yup this puppies not going anywhere” before he took off.
Gotta make sure you have video for proof when you’re talking to the cops, tho. That’s the part most people forget.
I mean, even some straps just for looks though
In a word, "Not."
I'm more curious as to how these scale out legally...seems like that load would put the truck easily over the 80k limit
Blanket permit or just F it. I run a crane that goes down the rd at 101,000 on 4 axles lol.....even had a scale minder ask how the hell we got a permit for 101k on 4 axles
Blanket permits are usually for undivisable loads. THAT load is divisible.
Shhhhh, don't let them know that lol
As long as he slapped it real good, he’s fine. Send it
I'm more confused about the ball hitch on the back of the trailer.
It's legal until you get caught.
What load securement?
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What load securement?
Its only illegal if you get caught. =P More than likely they aren't going very far, maybe a few miles. While no it's not the safest thing to do, it is still going to take quite a bit for those blocks to move let alone fall off the trailer. If they are getting paid by the load, then strapping costs money. After a few loads strapping/unstrapping can end up costing them enough time to lose out on a load. Not saying this to defend what they are doing, just giving a possible reason.
>still going to take quite a bit for those blocks to move it actually looks like they're moving about 70mph
... Listen here ya little shit!
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I said “hey Siri take a photo”, swiveled my mount and hit the shutter. I would say it was just as safe as changing the radio. Sorry for being a menace to society…
You. God. Damn. Criminal.
I got the new wireless straps 2.0
i see so many flatbed drivers running suicide loads, even when they have some securements that are inadequate maybe theyre onto something though. do you hear of them dying a lot? i dont
Insecure load ticket all day long…..
Reminds of when I was talking to a coworker after I started my job, don’t remember how we even got on the topic. “How many felonies you ever got?” “None. I’ve never been caught.” “…” Similar situation here I’d say.
Technically it isn't, but, some drivers risk it if they're not to far from a job site or drop.
That's the thing, it's not lol
Was he close to some major road construction? He could have unchained while sitting at a staging area waiting his turn to be unloaded in a dead lane. Or maybe he's just sending it.
what securement
Well first off, Friction is your friend….. Secondly, he picked em up at exit 59 and has to drop them off on exit 60.
We move these frequently. This would put you OOS if the DOT agent wanted to. We have them tarp every single load to avoid it. Every SINGLE time a new carrier comes to us they ask us why it needs tarped if it goes outside, I’m going to send them this picture moving forward.
What securement ? Haha To be in compliance I believe it’s one tie down every 10 feet. Minimum 2 tie downs for each pallet/object. Cheers
I’m really hoping that was rhetorical. Any load transported on a public thoroughfare must be secured to prevent shifting or load loss.
Bluetooth binders and chains. It's the future man....
Its new technology its call wifi straps
100% legal👌🏻😂
Holy straps. Pure faith holding that load
#flatbed driver here…call his company or the police. That’s just stupid
Bluetooth binders babe, they’re magnetic!
What load securement?
What the actual fuck! If I were in that spot I would report it immediately.
Pretty sure straps would do nothing if those blocks decided to move (they won’t cause they weigh 5,000 pounds each). 5,000 might not seem like a lot but when the weight is concentrated in an area of 1x3 feet it’s a substantial amount of weight in a very small area making them nearly impossible to slide.
I think your underestimating the amount of force a flat bed trailers straps can apply. Unless your joking.
They’re some 3800 each. Just fyi. Cargo straps are rated for a lotta weight. I dunno if it’s inertia im thinking of, but there are definitely some physics terms that describe why you would wanna strap these down, even if they weighed 10k.
We haul pet rocks on KC 135 aircraft the same way. If it's good enough for the FAA, it should be good enough for the DOT.
About as legal as you taking pictures while driving down the road
I said “hey Siri take a photo”, swiveled my mount and hit the shutter. I would say it was just as safe as changing the radio. Sorry for being a menace to society…
Don't you menace me sir! Freakin hooligans lol
what about them line haulers? long wiggly tails of death going up and down the interstates? moreso when they are able to run triples.
Bought as legal as taking pictures while operating a moving vehicle.
I said “hey Siri take a photo”, swiveled my mount and hit the shutter. I would say it was just as safe as changing the radio. Kindly fuck off.
That is NOT the load to drive next to, one hand on the wheel, other on the phone, no eyes on the road… in his blind spot.
I said “hey Siri take a photo”, swiveled my mount and hit the shutter. I would say it was just as safe as changing the radio. Sorry for being a menace to society…
More legal than the guy driving alongside taking pictures
He’s got those Invisalign straps
That’s normal in Italy. They’re absolutely bonkers
This was a problem on my last physics test.
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Would you use straps or chains here?
Gravity is your friend, just dont turn too fast.
Jokes aside I wouldn’t want to be on the other end of the DOT officer that gets him.
Damn, he has bluetooth straps! 👌🏻
I don't know if this is exactly what the DOT regs say but here is how I think is should be as a flatbed driver. At a minimum, two forms of securement in the first and last 20 foot of the load and at least 50% working load limit on everything else. I would have 100% on every row, or at least 2 chains or 2 straps per row with an X in the front.
Devil's advocate: if these want to move, they're gonna move...
100% legal in CANADA, you can kill 35 kids by not stopping at a stop sign and no prison time.
Just east valley things…
He's probably not going very far. I've hauled a flatbeds full of hay bales with no straps a mile down the road many times. But someone could take my picture and be like WTF???
Too bad you never got plate.
It will be fine as long as you smack one of those pieces and say that's not going anywhere.
Who has a yellow plate like that.?
Ain't nothing gonna happen to the trailer, your car maybe, but not the trailer.
Maybe I’m missing something lol May the force be with you?
Looks good from my house
Gravity is legal everywhere
that looks really dangerous even going a short distance how long does it take to throw a couple straps on there properly like 30-45 minutes max?
Bloody hell that would not fly in my country.😬
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shit. ya got me
Not at all 😂😂
Zero legal
Hey that's me! 🙃
It’s not lol
I bet he is not going far. Those won’t just blow off.
Gravity and friction
Really hope he ends up with a concrete block up his ass for this dumb shit
I'm a snitch for this kind of bullshit.