would love to see pallets strapped on the top deck of a double decker - especially to the “RAVE” of the trailer as the sides where the curtain clips go are supposedly no good.
Does all this rubbish apply to boxes too or is it just curtains/flats?
When you say “Corner Boards” can you show me a picture of one/some and where would one procure such equipment on the interwebz?
I’ve seen the laminated cardboard type strips but surely these aren’t good enough to hold anything with weight in it & i’d presume they aren’t waterproof.
I’ve also seen the single hard plastic type strap protector but these aren’t long strips, they’re just for preventing the strap chaffing on the product.
Make your own.
Select pairs of suitable pallet slats, an old webbing strap, a bag of half inch self tapping screws, a bag of wide washers to suit the size of the screwheads and a decent screwdriver.
Cut lengths of webbing about six inches long, two per pair of slats, line up two slats and fix the webbing in place with the screws, allow about four inches gap between the slats and voila, corner boards!
We’ve got this down pembrokeshire too , its seems a brick lorry went round a roundabout here and some.blocks.fell off, not many, , so boss jumped on it & said everything is to be.strapped , funny thing is they are happy to just see a single strap over a doubpe pack , also hooking a ratchet of the hooks is not allowed, got to hook off the main chassis … all this is hearsay in my eyes at the mo as had no official notice from company or vosa regarding it yet … when something comes off guess I will find out,
Soz twoninety, I forgot to mention I’m bone idle. 
Saw a builders merchant hiab on a roundabout A54 couple of miles west of J18-M6, with a load of blocks nicely delivered all over the verge.
Funny thing was- the rest of the load had 2 straps on each pack of blocks ! (I reckon he threw them on before Plod arrived ?)
I think the words Horse-Lock the Stable Door-Bolted should be used here (but not necessarily in that order)
Most of our lorries carry straps but have never been used. I had to pick up 60 plastic pallets out of Fine Lady, Banbury the other day and sods law, the truck didn’t have any. As most know, plastics are a pain for sliding especially when empty and damp. I left a few stacks 10 high starting from the headboard, then a few 8 high, 6 high etc and wedged pumptruck sideways on up behind them (jockey wheel resting on an old car tyre). Not the “approved” method of restraint but the load was how I’d left it when I parked up at the mill.
Never been shown load securing, so I just improvise and drive extra careful.
Those of us who used to do fruit to markets remember corner boards very well. 3 mm aluminium, 120mm angle cut to suitable length for product so 600/700mm to 1 metre. Same number required as pallets on vehicle plus 4 for the back. Round off corners 'cos they hurt if they hit you on the head. Down to the boss to supply. Last longer and are a lot stronger than wood.
cav551:
Those of us who used to do fruit to markets remember corner boards very well. 3 mm aluminium, 120mm angle cut to suitable length for product so 600/700mm to 1 metre. Same number required as pallets on vehicle plus 4 for the back. Round off corners 'cos they hurt if they hit you on the head. Down to the boss to supply. Last longer and are a lot stronger than wood.
3mm aluminium? A bit posh, mine were two bits of board held together with a bit of upholstery webbing nailed to them. And they were made in inches!
And as far as load security goes, no ropes allowed anymore and all that crap! Never tried it myself, but my late brother turned a motor over with a roped and sheeted load of veg on. Motor ended up on it’s side on a village green. The chassis was twisted through nearly 90 degrees and the cab was a write off. But the load, ropes and sheet stayed exactly where they were when he started out, you could have unbolted the body and load, put it on another motor and carried on.
Bernard
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Mine were in inches too, but I reckoned that anyone who didn’t know what a cornerboard is would be too young to understand feet and inches! I had to get out a tape measure to ensure that what I was writing looked about right. Jack Henley’s lorries were always properly equipped even down to a box for the ropes, scotches and Sylvesters and another for the cornerboards. The one thing no-one could ever call him was a cheapskate, so whatever it was, it was always quality gear; hence aluminium.
Muckaway:
Most of our lorries carry straps but have never been used. I had to pick up 60 plastic pallets out of Fine Lady, Banbury the other day and sods law, the truck didn’t have any. As most know, plastics are a pain for sliding especially when empty and damp. I left a few stacks 10 high starting from the headboard, then a few 8 high, 6 high etc and wedged pumptruck sideways on up behind them (jockey wheel resting on an old car tyre). Not the “approved” method of restraint but the load was how I’d left it when I parked up at the mill.
Never been shown load securing, so I just improvise and drive extra careful.
If VOSA stop you, they won’t be too happy with the ‘Pumptruck in the Tyre’ method of restraint, I’ve seen one or two pump trucks on the side of the road, even retrieved one once & sold it to an owner driver. Lol !
We don’t have one on the trailers, but all the Palletline wagons have a pumptruck & they’ve all been advised to strap them down.
Never had a problem with pumptrucks sliding, tbh all this strapping obsession is getting ott. I drive sensibly and any heavy/tall pallets I have wrapped (this stuff is so strong it’s annoying to unwrap most of the time). I strap 1t tote bags of wheat shells which go for feed-I just thread strap through the bag eyes of the rear two.
You can get load rated rope now apparently for the show offs amongst us.
Been years since I tied a dolly & I’ve forgotten now so use straps instead. Most of the ratchets you can buy aren’t up to much & only last 6 months before the spring or the gubbins go bad so Im going to treat myself to some Spanset branded ones next time.
It tickles me that vosa are now lifting equipment inspectors so it would seem - not allowing ratchets to attach to rope hooks ? - do the know the tensile strength of steel versus a ratchet ? , i had heard of a vosa guy advising a driver with fertilizer on board the they would prefer straps to rope & sheets ,also they seemingly are not happy to rely on internal roof mounted straps ? - that i would say is steping onto dodgy ground especially with type approval coming into the fray .
vosa are there for a purpose we all accept , but in this day & age help is what this country needs not hinderance .
jackslad:
Strapped ,netted,corner boards,crane strapped,and a very clean set of tyres…nice
VOSA will come down on you like a tonne of bricks(pardon the pun) look at all that mud and muck that could fly off the tyres and cause a 20 car pile up! 
rigsby:
absolutely pointless strapping across packs of blocks , they just pull into the centre space , which you have to have for grab operation . the only exception is shrink wrapped packs , or crossed straps on the rear of each deck , and i don’t know of any company that shrink wrap common blocks . i hauled blocks/bricks on and off over a 30 year period , and never lost any off a properly netted load . the jobsworths are trying to regulate something that they know (zb) all about …again .
Rigsby has it in a nutshell 
I did bricks and blocks for a while and we only crossed front and back with a fly sheet or net over the load, if those blocks are going to move no strap is going to stop them and the space down the centre of the load means it will just close with the moverment of the vehicle.
Looks tidy jackslad! -10 points for mud on the tyres though…