Carryfast:
So they ‘all’ ? have anchorage points on the load deck
Yes, pretty much nowadays they all have pop up hoops
Carryfast:
which seems to contradict the idea of a ‘load bearing’ curtain and ultimately by definition the roof structure which is anchoring the curtain.
No, it doesnt in the slightest. It just points out they have limits. Since it seems you never lost your licence have you never considered taking on the odd shift to keep yourself informed or do you much prefer bumbling on in ignorance? Rhetorical question we all know the answer
The load should have been strapped across every pair of pallets. Regardless of the curtains, the roof structure wasn’t sufficient to contain the load. Carryfast exactly right on this one.
Thought I would dig out my GDL handbook from Year 2020.
I believe the 400 kg weight threshold has now been reduced to 375 kg.
Noremac:
The load should have been strapped across every pair of pallets. Regardless of the curtains, the roof structure wasn’t sufficient to contain the load. Carryfast exactly right on this one.
Carryfast right? Never, but you’ve just wound him up and he won’t stop for ages now!
We don’t know if the trailer in question is rated. Whether or not, it has kept the load on the trailer.
Has the trailer been used outside of its design parameters? Quite possibly, I see no posts supporting the roof, but I’m yet to see a curtainsider without at least one support, usually two, rated or otherwise.
Just a thought… could always be a curtain from an XL rated trailer fitted to a standard body. Maybe unlikely but possible.
It really doesn’t matter if the trailer is XL or an imaginary XXXXL rated, a heavy load like that will move if provoked and unless strapped down to prevent initial shift once it all starts moving by the time it reaches the curtain and the amount of give in said curtain is taken up its all over bar the shouting and clearing up.
As someone sensibly pointed out, if you’d strap (or rope and sheet which IMO was better in many ways) it down on a flat bed and not rely solely on gravity then you should do the same inside the curtain sider.
Could someone fetch the smelling salts and attempt revival of common sense please 
Juddian:
It really doesn’t matter if the trailer is XL or an imaginary XXXXL rated, a heavy load like that will move if provoked and unless strapped down to prevent initial shift once it all starts moving by the time it reaches the curtain and the amount of give in said curtain is taken up its all over bar the shouting and clearing up.
As someone sensibly pointed out, if you’d strap (or rope and sheet which IMO was better in many ways) it down on a flat bed and not rely solely on gravity then you should do the same inside the curtain sider.
Could someone fetch the smelling salts and attempt revival of common sense please
So what’s the point in an XL rated trailer? Just strap everything?
md1987:
So what’s the point in an XL rated trailer? Just strap everything?
What would you strap inside a box trailer? Sometimes everything, sometimes just the back strap
stu675:
md1987:
So what’s the point in an XL rated trailer? Just strap everything?
What would you strap inside a box trailer? Sometimes everything, sometimes just the back strap
We don’t strap anything in our trailers lol
ezydriver:
Even if they’re not strapped, they won’t move if you drive it like a lorry, and not like a car.
That sagging in the middle - makes it looks like there’s too much weight in the middle of the trailer…
I’d imagine that even driving like a car - wouldn’t necessarily cause it to sag in the middle like that, unless of course we’re assuming that “Cars are not driven like TRON” into potholes (vertical forces) rather than around corners (lateral forces)
Cosmic:
Thought I would dig out my GDL handbook from Year 2020.
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I believe the 400 kg weight threshold has now been reduced to 375 kg.
Ratchet strapping boxed bottles or cans of beer/wine/cider/whatever. Good luck with that.
I’ve driven loads of beer and wine for five years, and both companies instructed drivers to use the internal straps to sucure full pallets of boxed bottles and cans. knowing full well, that that doesn’t secure anything, because they don’t exert a restraint downward, to secure the pallets on the deck. Nothing short of using a sheet/tarpaulin, can “secure” a pallet full of boxes of bottles or cans solidly to the deck of a flat or curtainsider. These kind of loads should be moved in box trailers.
It is of course the “professional driver’s” fault, for not adequately securing the load, despite the fact he/she/they/it are not provided with the right equipment.
That’s the main reason why I went back on the tankers. And won’t go back to curtainsider
