Anyone see this on there travels.
If they came out of a curtain sider the driver is for it. Unsecured load!
It doesn’t make clear if the load was secured but for 10’ x 4’ steel sheets weighing a ton each I would expect each stack should have had at least 4 well packed straps on, possibly a chain but customer may moan if a chains thrown over.
If its one of these where the only thing securing the load was the curtains then for a load of this weight thats insane.
No surprise its on a roundabout as steel in motion will easily shift if not secured, might as well be carrying ice.
A curtainsider should be treated as a flat bed albeit with a weatherproof cover.
Steel sheets are notorious for slipping, they should be layered with a slip resistant material and then strapped to the floor secured from sliding forward with crossovers at least. If this was a curtain sider VOSA will be on that driver like a ton of sheets! Could easily have decapitated a few car drivers, lucky no one was hurt!
Edit: On close inspection you can see blocks of wood between the sheets left in the truck. One must ask if that is sufficient? Obviously not.
A couple of year ago I used to find myself having real issues restraining loads on the agency. I’ve been in countless traffic offices asking for restraints and being refused.
For reasons it takes to long to strap, our drivers don’t bother etc
But recently Iam not having half the problems I once did asking for restraints and it does make me wonder if this DCPC lark is actually having an effect on the industry as a whole?
Although the VOSA lot do also use that matrix thingy if they pull you over.which may also add to more company’s complying with load safety.
Ps if I was never given restraints the load didn’t go.
See my easy money on the agency thread.
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Yep did it on my CPC last week VOSA are targeting companies for not supply drivers with the proper restraints for the type of load they are asked to carry. The operators are liable to massive fines and suspension of there operators licence!
It’s a Scania rigid curtainsider in the colours of Lowes Transport. The sheets have come out through the right-hand curtain.
On the newspaper page when I look at it are three ‘Ads by Google’
‘Buy tiedown straps’
"Claim for compensation’
‘CPC training course’
Right ads, in the wrong order.
Yep saw it bout 11am as i was coming out of soton , glad it wasnt me , guess the driver will be looking for a new job
largebloke1969:
Yep saw it bout 11am as i was coming out of soton , glad it wasnt me , guess the driver will be looking for a new job
He deserves to be looking for a new job, even if he is an agency driver who turned up and was told “drive that to …” , the load should be checked and he should have said “it needs securing properly or it stays here” Or if he was just a lazy ■■■■ he should not have a licence now…Professional driver my arse, more like John Wayne with spurs on.
done us all a bit of a favour they might even put a new bit of tarmac down…
Straps would have been fine on this load…
He’s either had straps on with no edge protection, causing the strap to break, although there appears to be nothing showing to suggest this or
he’s had no straps at all on it, in which case he’s a total muppet, and I’m surprised he got this far from Birmingham before he lost it.
One thing I learned from a very early age,(even before I could drive a car let alone a truck) is that Steel has no friends…
Kate:
Straps would have been fine on this load…He’s either had straps on with no edge protection, causing the strap to break, although there appears to be nothing showing to suggest this or
he’s had no straps at all on it, in which case he’s a total muppet, and I’m surprised he got this far from Birmingham before he lost it.One thing I learned from a very early age,(even before I could drive a car let alone a truck) is that Steel has no friends…
having picked a few bits and pieces up off various motorways I would agree with that…
cliffystephens:
Kate:
Straps would have been fine on this load…He’s either had straps on with no edge protection, causing the strap to break, although there appears to be nothing showing to suggest this or
he’s had no straps at all on it, in which case he’s a total muppet, and I’m surprised he got this far from Birmingham before he lost it.One thing I learned from a very early age,(even before I could drive a car let alone a truck) is that Steel has no friends…
having picked a few bits and pieces up off various motorways I would agree with that…
Agree totally, many years ago I was delivering steel sheets into Shorts aircraft factory in Belfast and an older driver who was there warned me about the dangers of sheet steel. He’d 1 finger missing and told me that when he had tried to stop a sheet sliding off his trailer as he was getting tipped and put his hand around the edge, result was 1 finger gone and serious scarring around another 2 fingers In his words he told me ‘son if that steel starts to slide then run’.
I am starting to agree with the DCPC regime. On safe loading we were shown loads of film of past accidents with lorry loads. One of the most dangerous was sheet steel that many times went through the headboard of the old lorries and through the cab!
Although I do stress that I still think the CPC should not be paid for by the driver and the course could be condensed down to tacho and safe loading/first aid maybe 1 day instead of 5
alder:
I am starting to agree with the DCPC regime. On safe loading we were shown loads of film of past accidents with lorry loads. One of the most dangerous was sheet steel that many times went through the headboard of the old lorries and through the cab!
The steel I was delivering was for part of the fuselage for planes and was so thin it was like a 20x6 razor blade Admittedly there was 3-4 steel bands holding it into a wooden frame but nevertheless still very dangerous.
You think after all the accidents in the past you would not see this accident in 2013. I suppose hauliers and drivers alike see a curtain sider and think great the load is safe in there. Sheet steal is not safe left loose in a box truck let alone curtains! Strap it down. I believe VOSA are bringing in rules for curtain siders anyway that you must have load bars installed!
This was the load I took to Glasgow the other week, as you can see I made sure it was tied down