What’s drivers and VOSA’s standing on carrying and strapping standard euro and four way pallets in a curtain sider, and how many can you stack up before they would need strapping?
weeto:
What’s drivers and VOSA’s standing on carrying and strapping standard euro and four way pallets in a curtain sider, and how many can you stack up before they would need strapping?
none, 
Gravity will keep them in 
weeto:
What’s drivers and VOSA’s standing on carrying and strapping standard euro and four way pallets in a curtain sider, and how many can you stack up before they would need strapping?
why not ring them and ask
Telephone
0300 200 1122
or you could e-mail them
customer.services@dsa.gsi.gov.uk
that way you could never say MMTM
weeto:
What’s drivers and VOSA’s standing on carrying and strapping standard euro and four way pallets in a curtain sider, and how many can you stack up before they would need strapping?
They all have to be strapped unless you’re using the correct load bearing curtains that conform to the regulations to allow you to carry them unstrapped. Each of those curtains have to have the certification labels on them.
At the pallet firm I go to they’ve got some of those curtains on a double decker and you’re left in no doubt that they’re the right ones as they’re as heavy as hell to pull and a lot stiffer.
Conor:
weeto:
What’s drivers and VOSA’s standing on carrying and strapping standard euro and four way pallets in a curtain sider, and how many can you stack up before they would need strapping?They all have to be strapped unless you’re using the correct load bearing curtains that conform to the regulations to allow you to carry them unstrapped. Each of those curtains have to have the certification labels on them.
At the pallet firm I go to they’ve got some of those curtains on a double decker and you’re left in no doubt that they’re the right ones as they’re as heavy as hell to pull and a lot stiffer.
Isn’t it right that a loaded pallet under 400kgs doesn’t require strapping in any curtain sider? And increased to 500kgs for load bearing curtains.
If it wasn’t clear, I was on about empty pallets, not loaded pallets.
12462XL rated curtain sided trailers don’t need strapping as long as pallets are a positive fit i.e they are up against headboard and all pallets are no more than 80mm from the curtains, if you are carrying 26 pallets in theory none would need strapping as these would be near enough up against the rear doors. Any less than 26 pallets would mean rear pallets would need to be strapped. Read this…
movingon.blog.gov.uk/load-secur … -vehicles/
weeto:
Isn’t it right that a loaded pallet under 400kgs doesn’t require strapping in any curtain sider? And increased to 500kgs for load bearing curtains. If it wasn’t clear, I was on about empty pallets, not loaded pallets.
You got your numbers/ratings mixed up, “most” internal straps are rated to 400kgs, so they can be used upto that weight, depending on the friction coefficient of the secured load, check the ratings on your individual straps.
A non-rated curtain, as most in the UK are, are not rated for load securing at all. You really need to see a non-rated curtain as just providing weather protection, it is only there to keep the load dry-ish, not secure.
but as soon as you place an MT pallet on top of another MT pallet the original pallet becomes a loaded pallet 
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Work for some reason send us up to normanton for sugar with a curtain, and run back with 24 pallets unstrapped, that said they are tight against the curtain.
I regularly pick up 160 pallets, 10 high stacks, head board to literally the back door in double rows. Tight against curtains, used to strap every 2nd stack as don’t have enough straps to do each one. Now I’ll be honest I don’t even do that anymore. And never had any move against curtain to bulge out.