Unsecured Loads

[Birdhunter1]

My first job where I paid into social security was at a local lumberyard. The owner was an old Navy vet hard as nails boatswains mate. He was feared and respected amongst the store for many reasons, and could chew a## like no tomorrow, as long as you did your job right and didn't cause problems he was great to you. I had worked there a few months and was loading a truck for delivery then getting ready to take it out, he happened by to inspect my forklift stacking ability and strapping down methodology. He asked who taught me as if it was wrong, my answer was my dad who learned the Navy way (he knew my dad well). I passed his critique, he said "straps are cheap, paying you twice to do something isn't, don't forget that!"

That was 1997 and I've never lost anything off of a truck.

 

[newbury]

SWMBO and I were doing our commute in our Jetta Sportwagen from northeast Mississippi to Alexandria, Virginia. We had gotten about to Scottsboro near the Alabama/Tennessee line on 72, where it is still a 2 lane road, doing about 60 and I came up behind a stakebody doing about 50 with 4 round bales. When I finally got to pass him I floored it and the TDI responded appropriately. As I pulled about even to him a round bale fell off, narrowly missing the car behind him and us. If I had been about 3 seconds slower it would have been on MY roof and the Jetta is not rated to carry round bales.

 

[big bubba]

SWMBO and I were doing our commute in our Jetta Sportwagen from northeast Mississippi to Alexandria, Virginia. We had gotten about to Scottsboro near the Alabama/Tennessee line on 72, where it is still a 2 lane road, doing about 60 and I came up behind a stakebody doing about 50 with 4 round bales. When I finally got to pass him I floored it and the TDI responded appropriately. As I pulled about even to him a round bale fell off, narrowly missing the car behind him and us. If I had been about 3 seconds slower it would have been on MY roof and the Jetta is not rated to carry round bales.

glad you made it through! this is the kind of incident that brings it to my attention. rather than just speed trap revenue wish the local law enforcement would pay attention to incidents like your own.