Coming home on A5 seen this parked in lay bye
Unless someone nicked his straps
There’s only one answer no
It’s because he’s always done it like that makes him better than us .
What a pro 
I bet he can drive a twin splitter too 
Who,s to say he,s not delivering to farmer giles in the field next door?
As long as the bags are tight against each other and something like sand it’s ok, although personally I’d chuck a rope over them for belts and braces.
norfolk:
Who,s to say he,s not delivering to farmer giles in the field next door?
You could be right there norfolk,dont judge a book by its cover 
seth 70 +1 We dont all deliver to RDC,s ( thank god )
If you look his cab curtains are closed so he probably turned somewhere nearby and thought he would save doin it in the morning,i dont think anybody would dare to take that far 
norfolk:
Who,s to say he,s not delivering to farmer giles in the field next door?
think he off to B&Q
Trade Point bags
I’ve seen them going up and down the motorway like that, lots of times over the years. Oddly, what I’ve never seen is them all over the road. Drive it accordingly and it’ll be fine.
That said, I’d probably sling ratchet straps over the rest of them, just for the look of the thing.
That’s the way I do it, although I’d normally strap the front 4 as well. If it’s fine stuff like sand, it will not move. If it’s coarse like stone I’d strap the front 4 and the back 4 and lace the eyelets in the bags with a rope down the middle. Never had a problem, but as has been said, drive accordingly.
Just an aside, and I know it’s not the “right” thing to do but I have been delivering fertiliser in bags in a curtainsider for the last month or so. Havnt strapped one pallet of it and had no problems whatsoever. And a lot of it was bad roads to farmers yards etc. A lot of load security is down to driving technique
As a agency driver, I wouldn’t hesitate to refuse that load like a shot.
Of course I would get paid for that shift
Would anybody on this forum voluntary pull themselves in a DVSA checkpoint with that load?
Complying with Vosa’s nonsensical load matrix and what’s safe are two different things.
Whatever way you look at it, it is an unsecured load.
The fact that because that type of load wont/has’nt moved countless times before, is irrelevant.
Why is it un secure? The head board is solid. The bags look to be loaded tight together, the rear straps are pulling them forward toward the solid head board. They can’t move.
Now if you turned it over, yes they would fall off but that’s true of most loads.
U can its safe if u drive it right but what about other drivers. Your going down the road someone pulls out u swerve bag comes off and hits a car or someone. I’m guess your then off to court.
kitbuilder123:
Why is it un secure? The head board is solid. The bags look to be loaded tight together, the rear straps are pulling them forward toward the solid head board. They can’t move.
Now if you turned it over, yes they would fall off but that’s true of most loads.
There are no straps over the load.
How would straps keep the sand in in the event of a rollover?
I’ve taken similar loads from bag force, recently had an old timer screaming at me for strapping the lot. Says you only need a net and a strap over the back two, I said I’m happy to spend 15 mins strapping it in the event vosa see it unsecured and got a grunt back. Some of our lads use straps a lot don’t, up to them but why risk getting a fine for the sake of 15 mins? Not like we are run off our feet sat at the wheel all day.