No headache rack needed?
I was running with a flatbed o/o who was pulling a load of lumber and when I asked if he had ever been bothered by the DOT for not having a headache rack he told me that the rules had changed and one was not required anymore. I tried searching the net and came up with nothing. Has anyone else heard of this?
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Take a look at that red Pete involved in the FL turnpike crash and you'll wonder why,I know before you all jump on me,it did have one you can see it crushed into the sleeper,what I should say is every trailer should have a bulk head.
I wonder if that load had been protected from moving forward at the trailer if the outcome would've been different? |
i understand that you have to have either a headache rack on back of your tractor or a bulkhead on your trailer. one or the other or else!!!
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Headache rack is no longer needed. When I pulled a flatbed, I had a 3-closet style Road Gear headache rack on the back of my W9. I honestly don't see a headache rack stopping anything from coming forward into the back of the cab...if I was going to buy a flat and run it, I would have a bulkhead on the front of the trailer...welded into place, and perhaps braced...I dunno. But I honestly don't see either one stopping 40k lbs. of cargo from crashing into the back of the cab if you slam on the brakes or rear-end something.
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no longer required but foolish to run without one
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I driven flatbeds along with dry and reefers. One company I pulled flat bed for I had only one back haul. 50,000 lbs Granite Block. If it decided to slide forward, side ways or backwards, God help who ever was in the way, The chains would not hold it, and the Headache Rack was not going to do anything but slow it a fraction. Chains are placed on it for looks to please the D.O.T. Seen to many break the chains. At the Musilem back home they show a Granite Block sticking out a Seaboard Railway Train Engine nose where it hit a Flatbed hauling a block.
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