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[bcp]

Passed quickly a flatbed semi-trailer, going the opposite way, that had a large school bus on it. There were about 6 of the 4-inch straps going over the body to the bed strap winches. It was too fast to see what other tiedowns were being used. The straps surprised me.

Bruce

 

[Dftodd]

That doesn't bother me as much as that the hitch doesn't appear to be latched onto the ball.
I could be mistaken, but that hitch sure doesn't look right.

Good catch. It's resting on the latch.

I hate that style latch for that reason.

Pops learned a valuable lesson when he stopped by to pick up his tractor.

He borrowed a buddies trailer and my brother in law hooked it to the trailer hitch.

Before pops loaded up the tractor, I stopped him and told him I wanted to chock the tires before he went up the ramp.

I had two 8' 4x4's laying next to wear he parked so I used one 4x4 in from of each set of axles.

As he started up the trailer, it popped off the hitch and the trailer stood up.

He was on an incline, so if I hadn't chocked the tires, the trailer tongue would have gone through the tailgate of his wifes SUV

He backed off the trailer. I made sure the trailer was properly latched and then he loaded the trailer.

I caught pops off to the side and mentioned, that was the exact reason why I refuse to let someone hook a trailer up for me.

 

[mllud]

Re the BX on a trailer

The cloths line isn't tied tight enough. That's the guy DOT won't bother. You can only hope he makes a hard right turn. Hès a moron!

 

[WinterDeere]

Passed quickly a flatbed semi-trailer, going the opposite way, that had a large school bus on it. There were about 6 of the 4-inch straps going over the body to the bed strap winches. It was too fast to see what other tiedowns were being used. The straps surprised me.

Bruce

They may have had chains from under the bus to the bed, I suspect. The 4" straps themselves usually have a breaking strength of 15,000 lb. if standard duty, or 20,000 lb. if heavy duty, and working load limits around 35% of those numbers, or 5k and 6.5k lb., respectively. With six of them, depending on how they're arranged, that bus probably isn't going anywhere short of the towing vehicle having a head-on collision. If I recall from working on 1970's school busses in the 1990's, they all had a curb weight around 23,000 lb.

 

[BravoXray]

Passed quickly a flatbed semi-trailer, going the opposite way, that had a large school bus on it. There were about 6 of the 4-inch straps going over the body to the bed strap winches. It was too fast to see what other tiedowns were being used. The straps surprised me.

Bruce

Six 4 inch straps would be legally sufficient to tie it down, though I would also secure the front and rear axles with chains.

 

[bcp]

I wasn't thinking about strap strength, but about body damage. Or they may have been hauling it to scrap.

Bruce

 

[WinterDeere]

Oh, for sure. Straps over a bus cinched tight enough to hold the thing is almost definitely going to cause some body damage. There should be chains underneath from axles or chassis to flatbed, usally two fore and two aft. The straps may have been just to deal with the high center of mass swaying around in the corners.

 

[Eagle1]

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[BigBlue1]

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I think it was just due to that thing on the trailer... Once they got it off then it straightened right out...

 

[bcp]

Bridge load limit 25 tons.

Truck = 120 tons

SHOT

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Bruce