OK, so this is a K&N trailer with cargo nets, but I can’t help but think this scene proves what I have always thought about roof straps/cargo nets hanging from flimsy roof rails, which is that they are useless and a waste of time for securing anything really heavy like palletised drinks. I’ve never understood why they are relied on so much. The pallets here have fallen against the cargo net and the roof has just collapsed.
Either use an XL trailer, ratchet straps, or it’s not worth bothering strapping at all in my opinion.
Wowsers! What a mess. I thought they were designed to break before they ripped the roof off, I was clearly wrong. I’d never have imagined they could do this
Funnily enough tonight as I joined the m6 from the m53 there was a K&N driver on the slip with his load hanging out the curtains, the trailer was twisted like it had hit a bridge! There looked like big matts inside of the curtain on his near side that was hanging out.
When I started driving 10 years ago my firm used to cut the internals out and we drove like we had a live load and to this day I’ve never seen one go! Respect the load I was taught, and touch wood I’ve not been close to losing one yet.
Taking a motorway slip road bend flat chat will do that. If the load had been ratcheted to the bed the wagon would of been over. Either way, an accident was happening regardless. M56 - M6 slip.
billybigrig:
Taking a motorway slip road bend flat chat will do that. If the load had been ratcheted to the bed the wagon would of been over. Either way, an accident was happening regardless. M56 - M6 slip.
I agree, there was probably going to be an accident here regardless. I’m just not sure the cargo nets made a great deal of difference to the outcome vs. a load that wasn’t ‘secured’ at all.
I think they need to start making trailers out of 3/4" thick steel and girders, training people to drive properly has obviously failed so let’s just put all the onus on load securing instead.
Surely driving style has more effect on load security than straps.
As some on here once said: “strap it like you’re going to drive it like it’s stolen, but drive it like it isn’t strapped”
Internal straps are a waste of time.I think there just for show to keep DVSA happy thats all. I was told they are only rated for 400kgs because of the roof but everyone says diffrent things.
I’ve dragged lots of k&n trailers and k&n loads in our trailers. This can only happen from driving style or the driver having to make an evasive manoeuvre. I think the internal curtain are more for the kegs.
If you read the dvsa and fta paperwork.
A curtain sider vehicle is to be classed as a flat bed with weather protect only.
So anything in them should be strapped to the deck of the trailer with the correct straps or approved ratchet nets like xpo use on paint carrying vehicles.
Had this argument with an idiot manager at norbert dressing table.
He didnt have the man beads to say if vosa stop you will you cough up answer would be know.
Joeblogs38:
If you read the dvsa and fta paperwork.
A curtain sider vehicle is to be classed as a flat bed with weather protect only.
So anything in them should be strapped to the deck of the trailer with the correct straps or approved ratchet nets like xpo use on paint carrying vehicles.
Had this argument with an idiot manager at norbert dressing table.
He didnt have the man beads to say if vosa stop you will you cough up answer would be know.
Nail hit on head. Fancy going without securing it properly just to save the boss a few bob in the time taken to do it right.
Not the first time for them. Driver dumped the truck and ■■■■■■ off home with his mate. Those of you that remember this will see the irony in where he dumped it.
Joeblogs38:
If you read the dvsa and fta paperwork.
A curtain sider vehicle is to be classed as a flat bed with weather protect only.
So anything in them should be strapped to the deck of the trailer with the correct straps or approved ratchet nets like xpo use on paint carrying vehicles.
Had this argument with an idiot manager at norbert dressing table.
He didnt have the man beads to say if vosa stop you will you cough up answer would be know.
Nail hit on head. Fancy going without securing it properly just to save the boss a few bob in the time taken to do it right.
Pwyll:
Not the first time for them. Driver dumped the truck and [zb] off home with his mate. Those of you that remember this will see the irony in where he dumped it.
The amount of sway required to do that its probably as well it wasn’t properly secured or the whole lot may have gone over, presumably on the last roundabout.
Does anyone wonder, i do, if some of these drivers have better tyres or is it handling awareness or what? (or haven’t a clue whats going on?) how often do you follow them up to a slippery and/or cambered corner to find they have gone round or through it at near enough twice the speed you feel through the seat of your pants is the right speed), another time you can maybe feel the tyres on the edge of grip on a worn surface roundabout but another artic comes ploughing past like you’re some kind of wuss?
Different motors feel and respond differently to different tyres, but the difference in speeds on slippery ground is amazing.
I did many night shifts for them out of Normy. We weren’t allowed to pull 22 gallon keg loads but were allowed to pull 18 gallon keg loads. But I could pull 22 gallon kegs if I was only going up to John Smiths in Taddy. Work that policy out?
Transport on nights was staffed by a load of useless halfwits who spent ALL night on the net playing games or watching DVDs.
Their solution if someone rolled one was (I kid you not good people) not to go round the bend or roundabout where the last one had gone over. Which meant going a different way! Just plain daft!!
The trailers were forever being welded up because of cracks and splits which said to me that they were only concerned about payload and got the lightest, not necessarily the best trailers for the job.
I did Carlsberg out of Leeds on nights too, they had a photo gallery of roll overs and load shifts in one of the offices, it nearly covered an entire wall.
M56 - M6 slip.
