Was it Cambs police who tried to motion a new law requiring sheeting? I’m sure it was found to be unworkable due to the HSE view on standing on loads more than over powering any risks to road users. Straw wagons do catch fire and they do go over too but no more than any other lorry. It can just get mote attention as the scattered load can be seen and make quite a mess. We sheet our hay as it is little conventional bales so their feed value drops when wet - promoting mould and fungus but also because it rides better.
weeto:
4whatitsworth:
Javiatrix:
I’ve always been curious why VOSA aren’t more interested in straw carriers!I mean, technically it’s a VERY insecure load?
Could they prove it’s insecure if it hasn’t fallen off
If vosa thought they could get away with doing the drivers of these loads of straw, I think they would have tried to by know don’t you think? But you could get done for leaving all the lose straw on the trailer after you have tipped your load and let it blow all over the road when you set off!
The only time you will see a load fully sheeted is if its going on a ferry, and only small bales will have the top of the load sheeted.
Straw going onto ferries has to be fully covered used to lift it on flats out of Sleaford easy enough to cover the loader lifts you and the sheets onto the load you sort the sheets out and then he lifts you down entertaining yes but no more dangerous than driving up the M6 when it is full of caravans
3 wheeler:
snowman77:
Whats wrong with throwing a rope or two over and attaching said sheet to other end and pulling sheet on.Carrot cruncher intelligence perhaps ?
Or perhaps there is a good reason that an ex tanker driver does not know !
I take it you;ve never sheeted a load then 
Watch someone sheet a load and then you may answer the above quotes yourself 
NiceRoadTrucker:
Was it Cambs police who tried to motion a new law requiring sheeting? I’m sure it was found to be unworkable due to the HSE view on standing on loads more than over powering any risks to road users. Straw wagons do catch fire and they do go over too but no more than any other lorry. It can just get mote attention as the scattered load can be seen and make quite a mess. We sheet our hay as it is little conventional bales so their feed value drops when wet - promoting mould and fungus but also because it rides better.
They catch fire because some scroat has thrown a cigarette into them, I have had people doing it to me in my few months of experience.
Its a natural bio degradable product, unlike some of the junk and litter that gets ejected out of vehicle windows, trucks included 
No point in sheeting the load as the sheet would get torn by over hanging tree branches and hedges going down smaller roads.
What about power lines in fields.If anyone was up at that height they could get zapped.
Do the keys get taken off the driver and he is made to wait in the corner of the field under the oak tree.
The loader clamps his wheels with tree stumps.
No hi viz allowed.The field is private land.
Sign in the field says no drivers allowed in the farm house.No drivers toilets.Anyone caught by the farmer will be banned for life or be asked to test out his new 12 bore shot gun.
While loading no sleeping in the cab is allowed.
If the big mean junk yard dog bites you.Get a rabies and tetanus jab.
No urinating in the field.
very funny to read all these comments 
. now heres the thing if a load is correctly staked and roped or strapped it will not go anywhere,just remember to tie the first thee bails on top together and then when leaving the field drive about 3 to 5 miles stop and then re check straps or ropes and carry on. now then when sheeting a load in the old days when it was loaded by hand or pitch fork we would take the sheet up layer by layer,then when finishing if the next day was a bit iffy you would put the sheet over the load,if it was a dry day then you would remove a bail put the sheet in the hole a put the bail back,then you would place your ropes hook one end on then climb down (there was two off us ) just in case someone says “well how did you hook it on” 
. then came big bails and tractors.now for the max load you would use a step frame not a conventional flat,now there was those who could work out the laws of heights an those that could not theirs plenty out there and not just in haulage,but there is also the lack of councils to cut back trees as they used to then there is the roads like the A38 -A380 many years ago there were no height signs on two of the bridges so as you used to just get over the top of the hill and roll down the other side at death defining speeds one would clout the first two bridges resulting in a slight trim to the load 
now there are sings and its best to move into lane two.loads catching fire ■■■■ or pricks with lighters in service stations 9 times out of 10 i always made it to the farm to night out. and finally sorry BT some off your wires where a little to low and that telegraph pole was at a funny angle, and that bloke in cornwall at least i stopped a gave you back your phone once i got it off the load and it was still working
toby1234abc:
No point in sheeting the load as the sheet would get torn by over hanging tree branches and hedges going down smaller roads.
What about power lines in fields.If anyone was up at that height they could get zapped.
Do the keys get taken off the driver and he is made to wait in the corner of the field under the oak tree.
The loader clamps his wheels with tree stumps.
No hi viz allowed.The field is private land.
Sign in the field says no drivers allowed in the farm house.No drivers toilets.Anyone caught by the farmer will be banned for life or be asked to test out his new 12 bore shot gun.While loading no sleeping in the cab is allowed.
If the big mean junk yard dog bites you.Get a rabies and tetanus jab.
No urinating in the field.
WTF!!!
Good ole Toby,quality stuff mate!!