Use a sheet to secure a load of bricks on a flat.I bleedin despair.
Look at any of the numerous photos of London Brick Company’s trucks among others.You won’t find many sheeted or roped flats but there are plenty of drop and cage siders.
Your time would be better spent working on a brake line, rather than prattling on about stuff of which you have no experience.
Own account trucks may have had specialist bodies.
General haulage motors with ropes and sheets also carried hand loaded bricks and tiles quite successfully.
We managed to do the same job, it took longer to rope and sheet rather than just clip in a side, but we were much more flexible on the type of load carried. If we knew we were going to carry bricks we would have tried to get a net, but if we couldn’t, or didn’t know the back load in advance it was not an issue. Just do the job with the gear available.
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Pallets of bottles double stacked would have been interesting.Try getting out of Rockware without sheeting …… well the Leatherhead empty head said the sheet only keeps ‘em dry 
What, that “boat anchor”? Scrap it and put a Detroit in 
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The A580 East Lancs before the M62 was built
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A Leyland Chieftain with quite a story behind it (Martyn Hearson on flickr)
Tesco’s run, anyone?
I seem to remember TV adverts with “Sir Save-a-Lot Tesco”?
Edit…found one. With green shield stamps too.
Filling up with diesel I used to get books and books of those stamps.
I’ll try again.I never said it didn’t happen and in some specific cases like empty drums and loose loaded bricks it would sort of work as an exception proving rules.But bricks are always best practice to use a drop sider or a cage sider and chuck a sheet over em ‘inside’ of the drop/cage sides for good measure.
BUT Ramone is also then conflating that with the common examples of the same short cuts being applied to loads like heavy stillages and paper reels and full drums.That’s what would rightly get the attention of the law then or now.The premise of any decent driver was don’t rope between heavy loads to use the sheet as the restraint.
How would you secure a (round, slippery) full drum on a flat?
If you have corner boards that would work. But without them, the ropes would slip into the gaps between the drums.
Sheet the drums, rope between the pallets, and all is as safe as houses. I and colleagues did that for years. Common practise, not exceptional at all.
Sheets are not kitchen roll weak and flimsy tissue.
I’ve never mentiined heavy stillages but i carried them for Solaglass and we taped flexible polystyrene over the sharp corners to stop the sheet ripping but eventually they did tear..We had to rope the bottom of the stillages in some cases because the glass was higher than the stillage.The sheet went over and then roped. We had to rope between to get the sheet tight amd hold it all together .
I like to think I’m REASONABLY intelligent, but I can’t understand what you’re rambling about
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My point exactly.
■■■■■■■■ baffles brains…
Yes. Bradford Rd, Batley. AS we speak the Jaguar is tucked up nice and cozy in my back yard in a Batley garage. Money well spent 20+ years ago.
‘Warnings of prosecutions’ ??? Rubbish.
If a load shifted dangerously or at the very worst, came off…you were prosecuted for ‘insecure load’
parkroyal2100,
Have you been brainwashed by a certain member 