Sheets of mesh from BRC or Rom is another nightmare.
You strap it down (with a T Bar) then 10 mile up the road you have to do it again because it has settled and bounced
erfguy:
Got to agree with everything you said Andrew as a retired driver living in Sanquhar I used to load it out of Scotboard Irvine and Caberboard at Cowie it allways was dodgy stuff if not roped or strapped properly but another problem at Guildhall southbound is definately speed and it worries me that its only a matter of time before there is another motor under one as it goes over like the fatal at Enterkin last year.Eddie.
We used to do return loads of the stuff out of Caberboard and Scotboard, in fact the first load of the stuff I did was out of Irvine. An interesting trip home to say the least. Look in the nearside mirror, that’s a new bulge in the curtain, round the next bend it’s on the otherside! I’m sure we used to go 3 high with that 8’ by 4’ chipboard and we used to have to cover it with plastic sheeting as well. Still got a couple of those rolls of plastic, handy for decorating 45’x20’+! Bugger having to crawl about on the top of the load to cover and strap it! I carried 14 span sets and used them all, as most of the blokes up there did, and use a bar. If I remember we never had chance to strap each layer as we were only there to make sure we moved the curtains for the loaders, who were generall pretty sharp once you got in there. Did dozens of loads and never lost one, used to move about a bit but never lost a load.
‘Crazytrucker’
Long time ago this was a regular back load for me on flats with sheets We used to strap top and bottom packs, using lengths of 90 degree aluminium as corner boards ( minimises any damage), and also run two straps per stack around the stack itself adding to the banding, Never had one move.
And while I agree it is not nice stuff to carry, Polished hardboard coated flax board, or laminated board is far worse
Andrew Leitch:
Oh dear…it 's happened again.
Police, VOSA and Nithcree looking at it!!! What do they know about loading chipboard■■?
i hate passing a lorry when you can see it’s load pushing against the curtains on one side only 
I live in Kirkconnel, and to be fair the bridge on which most of the aforementioned accidents have occured does have a pretty nasty camber on it! Coupled with this is a pretty steep downhill gradient on one approach, and a short straight with blind bend leading onto a similarly nasty downhill gradient coming from the other side, all means that if you’re in the least bit out of shape when you reach the bridge you are most likely going over!
None of this detracts from the fact that it could all be avoided with a bit of forward planning on the part of the driver, but I’ve never yet met a driver who was anything more than human, and we all make mistakes, there’s just not much room to correct them on that particular sequence of bends …
I nearly toppled a high roof panel van there a few weeks ago, and I’ve been driving that bend every day for 10 years! I just took my eye off the road for a couple of seconds, clipped the inside kerb and next thing I knew I was on two wheels and see-sawing towards the river!
A lot of you seem to feel that this is caused by inexperienced drivers not knowing how to treat the load, a lot say you learn’t from parents etc.
Everyone has to start somewhere and not everyone has someone to show them, many pass their test and then learn as they go.
So isn’t this an arguement that all this CPC stuff is worthwhile? OK i agree all the customer service stuff is BS, I pull up, open up then sit in the cab until the forklift driver has done his bit, thrust a clipboard in his face then drive off, not much need for 7 hours of training there, but safe loading and legal driving are worth it in my opinion.