yourhavingalarf:
switchlogic:
yourhavingalarf:
due to our misplaced trust in curtains, that’s the way it continues.
Is it misplaced though?
In some ways…
I think it is. A whole generation of drivers who work to the ‘they’re closed I’m good to go’ method. With DVLA and plod pulling everyone with a curtain behind them and fining them for not putting 2 ratchet straps over an empty pallet, the ‘is it ever going to be safe in there?’ question arises again.
In my experience, glass bottles and jars in packed in the way they are, would be far more secure transported in a box.
I agree about being in a box, if dvsa ever have a purge on the wagons pulling out of these kinds of premises then maybe they will have to have a rethink 
switchlogic:
Did them lots for Quinn Glass. We were told to use internal straps threaded through every fourth top pallet. The wrapped ones like that rarely go over. It’s the tall stacks of unwrapped, just banded. Would just take one particular bump in a particular way and once one goes you just have to watch the whole load collapse. No idea why they sent them unwrapped as getting to destination was like a bloody lottery! My worst was just as I was pulling up to delivery, hit speed bump probably a tiny bit to fast, heard the the inevitable ‘glass tinkle of disaster’ sound and with security watched whole load give up the ghost! They let me in, drove round the security hut and drove back out with barely a word spoken.
The unwrapped pallets known as pressure packs will be for an ABInbev site or a contract bottler working for them, they have a real issue with this going back to Whitbread days. If their staff don’t strip the plastic effectively it gets into the bottling line machinery and locks it solid stopping production. Why their staff can’t strip them fully when everybody else can I’ve no idea, but that’s what it’s about.
Then you need an XL rated trailer, with a completely positive fit load - no gaps front or rear and no more than 80mm to the sides.
But that’d mean over 31t…