While waiting to tip this week I saw a foreign registered trailer which had load lock bars between the roof & floor.The bars seemed to have a ratchet type handle to secure into place with rubber pads on the end plates which were about 4" square. Hadn’t seen these before so how common are they? Does the roof need any additional strengthening?
The other trailer was delivering plants on Danish trollies.
The roof doesn’t need reinforcement when it can hold 24 tonne of Swinging
Locking bars are commonly stolen from trailers
Seen these many…
Times when driving over the water. They’re handy for keeping a single tall pallet of fruit from falling over. If I ever had a tall single pallet, I’d just split it into two halves.
Never known them to go through the roof but it’s probably best to check with the trailer maker.
Wheel Nut:
The roof doesn’t need reinforcement when it can hold 24 tonne of SwingingLocking bars are commonly stolen from trailers
Hanging trailers have extra strengthen.
The load bars aren’t stolen, the useless unloaders don’t put them back in trailers,or the Muppets who take them out don’t put them back… I’ve got 2 nice new ratchet bars, curtisoy of Mr ee not picking em up, O and a squeegee.
Commonly known as fridge bars. A rare commodity and available only on the international black market. Nobody knows where they come from or who makes them, but they are out there. Rarer than a hen with gold teeth, they come and go from trailer to coldstore to trailer, carefree and unhindered, unshackled by the hindrance of ownership.
Some are captured and held prisoner by being cable-tied along chassis rails or catwalks but their will to be free always wins out in the end.
Extra tang points for having rack-and-pinion ones marked with a splash of company-coloured paint, like the arse end of a ewe.
Drempels:
Commonly known as fridge bars. A rare commodity and available only on the international black market. Nobody knows where they come from or who makes them, but they are out there. Rarer than a hen with gold teeth, they come and go from trailer to coldstore to trailer, carefree and unhindered, unshackled by the hindrance of ownership.Some are captured and held prisoner by being cable-tied along chassis rails or catwalks but their will to be free always wins out in the end.
Extra tang points for having rack-and-pinion ones marked with a splash of company-coloured paint, like the arse end of a ewe.
. So true! I have two across my unit chassis. Strangely they both have FW in red paint on them! 
the maoster:
Drempels:
Commonly known as fridge bars. A rare commodity and available only on the international black market. Nobody knows where they come from or who makes them, but they are out there. Rarer than a hen with gold teeth, they come and go from trailer to coldstore to trailer, carefree and unhindered, unshackled by the hindrance of ownership.Some are captured and held prisoner by being cable-tied along chassis rails or catwalks but their will to be free always wins out in the end.
Extra tang points for having rack-and-pinion ones marked with a splash of company-coloured paint, like the arse end of a ewe.
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There’s two stillages full of load bars at your place…
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There’s two stillages full of load bars at your place…
Fill yer boots my friend! Everybody else seems to. It’s easier to steal them when there’s a trailer on bay 25 or 26 as it blocks the view from the office!
the maoster:
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There’s two stillages full of load bars at your place…
I don’t steal, I borrow them and forget to return them. The office can’t see, as they’ve got there nose’s stuck in a screen doing their shopping. 
Out old Scania rigids had 6 ratchet type ones per truck that fixed in a series of holes along the floor and floor…not used on the new DAF’s as they are a different body type so different bars. Somewhere in Scotland is our ‘scrapyard’…they’ve probably got in excess 5000 of these old type ones kicking about!
Cobblers…just noticed the pic needs rotating 90 to the right…it’s up against a wall and not laid on the floor!!
