Just wondering what it is with flatbed people and these 5/16" chains and pop binders when they haul equipment.
I've constantly see flatbeds and stepdecks around here hauling equipment with only 4 5/16" chains and if I'm lucky they might have one over the bucket or blade. Is it really that hard to put on a coupple extra chains?
Example. Coupple of weeks ago I was hauling a Cat 324DL excavator (aprox. 56,000lbs). I had 4 1/2" ratchet binders on the corners of the tracks, 2 3/8" grade 100 chains in a x pulling from the center to the front of the trailer, and two more 3/8" chains from the center of the machine in a x to the rear of the trailer, then one 3/8" grade 70 over the bucket.
A step deck pulls in next to me with the same machine minus the bucket. All he has is 2 5/16" chains from the front corners of the tracks to the fron of the trailer in a x and 2 more 5/16" in a x on the back. Also no oversize load sings on the back of the trailer and no flags. Not safe at all.
I see crap like this all the time with stepdecks and flatbeds even some lowboys and it's starting to pi** me off. And has me wondering how they don't get caught.issedoff: