I can see me getting some flak for this one but I’m used to it on here now .
So one of the places I drive at has a policy of strapping all loads now whereas in the not so distant past they never used to bother. For the most part nothing really has changed and everyone just carries on as they did before by not bothering, but there are 1 or 2 company boys that go crying to the transport manager if they take a loaded trailer that another driver has loaded and not bothered to strap.
So Saturday night I’m there live loading a trailer for one of their own drivers to take on Monday. I belled up the office to ask who was taking it and it was one of the company boys so had to strap it. Because I was feeling in a devious mood and also more to do with this particular guy always bad mouthing agency drivers, I made sure that I swung on other single internal strap before pressing the lever home and they all had the sort of tension that you’d need a piece of scaffy pole to release . I then did the same with the curtain buckles, making sure to loop the tassles round the clip and then shove the ends underneath before securing the clip.
Fast forward to Monday night and I just so happened to be doing a change over with him. Unsurprisingly I was keen to veer the topic of conversation round to strapping loads and it was at that point that I was regaled with the story about how some utter ■■■■ of a driver had done the straps up so tight that it took him over half an hour to release them all! . I don’t think I’ve ever struggled so much to keep a straight face and not burst out laughing .
Seems you can’t do right for doing wrong! You don’t strap them, you get moaned at! You strap them, you get moaned at! Can’t win!
Never succeeded in getting internal straps that tight, way too much give on them things to get much tension. And if they are a little tight just pop the supports out and the roof drops a bit. Think Rob might be over egging the pudding a little on this one.
Nice, perhaps you could do a course in strapping for your CPC rob.
I hate strapping loads that don’t need strapping, really depresses me, not because I’m bone idle which I can be sometimes, it’s just such a waste of time & effort all so some shirt & tie can tick a box on a sheet.
switchlogic:
Never succeeded in getting internal straps that tight, way too much give on them things to get much tension. And if they are a little tight just pop the supports out and the roof drops a bit. Think Rob might be over egging the pudding a little on this one.
Plus 1. Think cos he got good replies on his other thread, he would day dream another up.
How the ■■■■ can you get trailer straps that tight. Plank.
switchlogic:
Never succeeded in getting internal straps that tight, way too much give on them things to get much tension. And if they are a little tight just pop the supports out and the roof drops a bit. Think Rob might be over egging the pudding a little on this one.
What roof supports? Trailer doesn’t have any.
spectron:
Plus 1. Think cos he got good replies on his other thread, he would day dream another up.
How the [zb] can you get trailer straps that tight. Plank.
Ah Mr. Spectron, I wonder which sockpuppet you are? Your sole purpose on this site is to hunt out all my posts and post 1-2 line pointless and generally abusive replies in a futile attempt to get a bite from me. Fail. I’d put my money on it being dinosteveus under a new moniker.
switchlogic:
Never succeeded in getting internal straps that tight, way too much give on them things to get much tension. And if they are a little tight just pop the supports out and the roof drops a bit. Think Rob might be over egging the pudding a little on this one.
What roof supports? Trailer doesn’t have any.
Fair enough but my point that internal straps have way too much give in them to get them that tight still stands though. You can get them tightish but so tight you need a scaffold pole? No sorry don’t buy it.
Strapped opposite i don’t see any reason why the straps shouldn’t be banjo string taut (squeal boy… )
There’s a knack to getting foldover straps taut, you tension them then keep waggling them whilst under tension then finally force them over, if you do a couple in the middle to start with then work along, returning to those middle ones now and again, swapping to the other side adds tension to those already done…pinnnngh.
Mind you by the time the trailer roof’s come down a permanent 6", they might be loose again…
Juddian:
Strapped opposite i don’t see any reason why the straps shouldn’t be banjo string taut (squeal boy… )
There’s a knack to getting foldover straps taut, you tension them then keep waggling them whilst under tension then finally force them over, if you do a couple in the middle to start with then work along, returning to those middle ones now and again, swapping to the other side adds tension to those already done…pinnnngh.
Mind you by the time the trailer roof’s come down a permanent 6", they might be loose again…
Didn’t say you cant get them tight, we have to on some work like the pallets of unwrapped bottles, but so tight you need a scaffold pole to undo them? Or so tight it takes half an hour? Internal straps aren’t the most robust things in the world, held on by plastic sliders to a flimsy rail so there’s only so tight they’ll go
switchlogic:
Never succeeded in getting internal straps that tight, way too much give on them things to get much tension. And if they are a little tight just pop the supports out and the roof drops a bit. Think Rob might be over egging the pudding a little on this one.
What roof supports? Trailer doesn’t have any.
Fair enough but my point that internal straps have way too much give in them to get them that tight still stands though. You can get them tightish but so tight you need a scaffold pole? No sorry don’t buy it.
OMG you can be so serious sometimes. Obviously scaffy pole was just a slight exaggeration but most folks would have got the drift. Trust me, swinging 16 stone on the end of the strap and then pushing the clip home will not please you when you come to undo them, especially when the clips were nearly 8 ft up in the air so the usual craic of grabbing the end of the strap and ragging it towards you to undo the clip won’t work.
Anyway, don’t see what the problem is. Obviously he has doubts over his own driving abilities if he needs every load strapping , and that’s exactly what I did for him, making them extra tight just for added peace of mind . Just can’t please some folk.
Juddian:
Strapped opposite i don’t see any reason why the straps shouldn’t be banjo string taut (squeal boy… )
There’s a knack to getting foldover straps taut, you tension them then keep waggling them whilst under tension then finally force them over, if you do a couple in the middle to start with then work along, returning to those middle ones now and again, swapping to the other side adds tension to those already done…pinnnngh.
Mind you by the time the trailer roof’s come down a permanent 6", they might be loose again…
albion1971:
Why do some lorry drivers act like children? Probably something to do with a low IQ!
if this forum is so infantile why are you here after all you learn a lot about a man by the company he keeps and you seem happy enough here in the kindergarten
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Obviously scaffy pole was just a slight exaggeration 