I do love being lectured by people who’ve been doing the job less than a tomato season 
The Sarge:
I do love being lectured by people who’ve been doing the job less than a tomato season
Same as that, I took a load of roof-high timber westwards yesterday, it was strapped to within an inch of its life, I’m carrying euro pallets of ceramic tiles eastwards today, these are for distribution and not one single pallet has tiles loaded to the height of the pallet itself, they are customer orders with enough tiles on each pallet to tile one single bathroom or kitchen. The pallets weigh more than the tiles.
I haven’t strapped them because they don’t need strapping. I’ve been doing the job long enough to know if a load needs strapping or not and I’m getting a bit fed up with these gobby “know-it-all” youngsters who haven’t been doing the job five minutes telling me what I should or shouldn’t be doing. 
newmercman:
Class! Could do with that at our firm!!!
“Generally the weather protection structure is not rated for load restraint and should not be used to secure load restraint equipment, although trailers with a reinforced and rated superstructure are allowed for in European Standards.”
And of course the sheets(tarpaulins for those in the dark) were(are) only there as “weather protection” and have no load restraining capability whatsoever because they are not rated by some numpty’s with a calculator.
Think about this one, in the old days(maybe still is) it was not unknown for people in peril of their lives from fire on the upper stories of buildings to jump into a sheet(sometimes literally) stretched taut between a few people.It is my belief that this worked, and it worked because tensioned fabric of any sort has some load bearing capability. 
matamoros:
“Generally the weather protection structure is not rated for load restraint and should not be used to secure load restraint equipment, although trailers with a reinforced and rated superstructure are allowed for in European Standards.”And of course the sheets(tarpaulins for those in the dark) were(are) only there as “weather protection” and have no load restraining capability whatsoever because they are not rated by some numpty’s with a calculator.
Think about this one, in the old days(maybe still is) it was not unknown for people in peril of their lives from fire on the upper stories of buildings to jump into a sheet(sometimes literally) stretched taut between a few people.It is my belief that this worked, and it worked because tensioned fabric of any sort has some load bearing capability.
Oh come on - that’s unfair!
Bringing realworld facts into their rose tinted theoretical world 