Got this one through from the north west, shows how not to secure a load.. the driver was VERY lucky to be able to tell the tale
i bet he will need some new underwear. gald he was in the AUS instead of NA,
Good thing you down under boys sit on the wrong side of the cab.
I have seen it several times. Never ever underestimate a load of steel, especially pipe
Thats funny!!!! Also I liked the drive safely sign.
It looks like his driving was fine, It was the stopping that got him in trouble! :lmao
Mate! As you would well know, we still have a lot of regulatory inconsistencies in Australia. I'm sure that our Canadian and Alaskan friends will have a bit to say about this as well because they are well experienced in carrying pipes. In Queensland, logs coming into the Mill may only be carried on trucks with log-guards at the front of the first trailer or behind the cab of the prime-mover. Yet when leaving the Mill, poles or long, treated, perfect-round pine logs are legal to be carried on general-freight flat-top trailers without log-guards! They should have log-guards! So when it comes to steel pipes, it should be law that they are only allowed on trucks with logging-type cab-guards. With the gas pipeline bonanza that we have here at the moment, we can only expect to see more accidents like this with not always the same happy outcome. Cheers. Maurie.
lucky lucky he was driving right hand truck
Here in the US, You have to have a headache rack on the truck, or a bulkheaded trailer to haul pipe and other long items. It looks like the trailer above had a half a**ed excuse for a bulkhead, but it was not up to the task. Proper load securement goes a long ways as well. Looks like a lucky guy. I hope he pays more attention next time. Seeing that the accident appeared to happen at a Stop sign, a softer touch on the brakes might have helped as well
yep, unsecured load.. it was only a gate on the front of the trailerthey bend if you look at them sideways and stood on the brake at the stop sign (also going down hill) i think at the very least there will be a new trailer spec arise from this incident
Ok you are all saying unsecured load, so what is the proper way to secure the load? How do you get binding/tension/bearing on the center pipes? I have little experience with moving pipe.
You would gut wrap each tier. muzy
i like two gut wraps and one thrown over the top on each row of pipe personally.
I got this at work aswell. Cant remember the name of the company though, crazy stuff.
We had a driver at one of my old jobs hauling conduit inside a PVC pipe on top of his work van. He cleaned up the jobsite and had a few shorter lengths that he threw in with the full length sections. On his way back to the shop a car pulled out in front of him and he had to stop rather quickly, he heard a pop and watched as a 3 foot chunk of conduit went through the back window of the car that just cut him off. Same situation, just on a lot smaller scale.
No body has mentioned it, but that trailer did have a headache rack, Not much of one but it did have one.
Few years back , Boss had a 55 ton crane and me bobtail up on I 35 just outside Kansas City . Accident on I 35 a mile ahead caused traffic to start the chain reaction panic stopping . A driver hauling all the red iron for a steel building had tied the entire load with nylon straps Only . His jammed the brakes on and it was just the grace of God he wasn't skewered . That whole load moved as a unit ,Folded the bulkhead over and sheared it off . Went on to lay the headache /Chain rack over and into the sleeper and stopped only after shoving the seat ahead 6 inches . We managed to pick that whole load up at one time and snake it out of the truck . Set it back on the trailer and chain it so I could go the last 5 miles to deliver it . Every 6 inch wide strap he had was cut in two . I have always thought that I don't have enough horsepower throw anything off but I sure have enough brakes to make it slide . That accident gave me the incentive to look hard at what might crawl in with me .
I have afriend thats a log hauler. They were doing a job in Tupelo MS and had a contract cutting some high grade willows for some paper company. The logs were run through a flail delimber. When willow is is delimbed it will peel and super slippery. Some times when cableing down the lod it wants to sqeeze out the back of the trailer. He had awhole load and was going to the lab or mill and got into some traffic. His load wa loaded in bunches and the taperes were put the opposte way to try to lock it. He had cabled down good and was moving on. The highway has a read light on it and he got right there and the light flashed yellow then red. He hit the brakes and the whole load hit the headache rack. His HR has a little grated window in it and one 10 incher went all the way through and knocked the cap off his shifter. He couldnt steer eaiter way and had to ease on through the intersection on green and barely got to the shoulder. Luckily another logging crew had been behind him and used a pole saw to trim the load off the cab and HR.