The Highway Man:
Can’t stand them, If I was given £1 for everyone I’ve retrieved from live lanes on the motorway, I’d be a rich man. It must cost you lads and lasses a fortune to replace them!!Like them
highways.gov.uk/news/pressre … eid=164475
No wonder east mids truckers keep their balls in a bag, if that’s how many straps they loose
loading hay and straw, hardest game in the world that. length ropes, 13 course with riders. 
I would question the wisdom of using a lever to overtighten a ratchet. All that will do is bend the handle or the ratchet pawl. If it needs a lever to tighten it, maybe it needs chains and dwangs (sylvesters) to hold it on.
Right, new straps arrived yesterday. 
Having paid for them 24 hours earlier. Nice efficient service, its what we like.
Assume we are allowed to post companies on here if we could recommended their services?
I ordered 8 of these gtf.co.uk/RB5050ERG-OD.html with short length of webbing and standard 50mm wire hooks. They come to £9.90 each before VAT + delivery. So didn’t make this the cheapest order in the world, but if it saves me wrenching my back every time I tighten the standard ratchets, or losing anything off the back of the load, then its well worth it, and they belong to me now, so if I move jobs, the decent kit can come with.
And yes in a perfect world the company would have bought them for me. But this isn’t a perfect world last time I checked, there is more chance of the truck sprouting wings.
Cheers for the advice folks.