Unsecured Loads

GeorgeK

Member
Location
Leicestershire
Good job they didn't catch him on the hay run!
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Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
If they dropped tail gate and ratchet strapped and put warning marker at rear would possibly been ok?
A holes about ,chuck anything in back ,and often speeding, only takes one thing to tamp out and could kill someone behind or on kerb ?
if they had secures and marked the load correctly they would have been fine. Sadly they used the JFDI atttitude we are all guilty of, some more than others!
 

Paddington

Member
Location
Soggy Shropshire
Picked up some 14ft lengths of timber in a 12ft trailer from the builders merchants. I hadn't far to drive and most of the wood was inside the trailer so didn't tie it down, however after a few miles on Shropshire's notoriously bad potholed roads, the lengths were nearly bouncing out of the trailer and I had to stop and secure them.
 

Daddy Pig

Member
Location
dorset
Yup, athough during lockdown me and the traffic cop who was following behind me passed a guy restrapping a fully assembled trampoline to the back of his pickup and the traffic cop never even put down his doughnut :)
To be honest going to collect a trampoline so the kids can get some exercise and maybe even have some fun would be considered essential and necessary in my book at the current time.
 
Location
southwest
This morning on the m25 truck and trailer with round bales, truck had two bales on there end with one on top on on its side with one strap holding it all on. May be all right on local roads but not on m25 heading fir the dartford crossing

Why does the type of road make a load less secure?

There was a Court case reported locally recently where a round bale of straw fell off a trailer onto a guy on an electric bike resulting in life changing injuries.

Tractor driver's defence was that he was only going a few hundred yards on a minor road. Driver, aged 39 was found guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

The load straps were in a box on the trailer.
 
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