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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand
Where is the YTDOT when you need them.
This has got to be the most common violation I see on the road.
A tracked piece of equipment that will not freely move and not one tie down.




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I see that and zero turn mowers like that often. Gravity is real but has it's limitations fur-sur!
 
Easier to add one tie down too many than deal with the police, lawyers, insurance companies when disaster strikes. Just be careful, very careful
 
When we built out house 21 years ago, the fellow who did the basement and grade work hauled his traxcavator on a pintle hitch trailer behind his dump truck.

When he finished his work, I was dumbfounded when he just drove the excavator onto the trailer and drove off without booming it down.
 
I wonder if that is more of a southern thing, I very rarely see anything not chained down here.
 
And then the Zero turn owners complain to the dealer that the 'Brake won't hold' when it bounces around.
 
A local septic tank contractor years ago in Colorado fabbed up a curved bracket on the front of his backhoe trailer. All he had to do was drive forward as much as possible and curl the bucket up to hold the Case 580 in place.

It worked well until it didn't one night and the backhoe came off the right side of the trailer just South of the small town of Gill.

Beagle
 
Wouldn't you like to hear the converstion between him and the DOT Cop. But officer, I am only going 10 miles and I am not going to drive fast, pull out quick or make any sudden stops. The trailer has a rail around it anyway, it can't get out.All the time he is writing tickets and filling out the RED tag.
 
Around me the lawn care guys may make 10 stops a day. Local law enforcement does not enforce hauling rules as long as the load does not come off the trainler and then it is a very small fine. Of course if there is damage to other property the insurance companies and lawyers could get involved, but for that small chance there isn't one of them going to tie down for each run to the next customer.
 
I've seen trucks and trailers set up to haul a mini excavator where there was a bar welded to the trailer that the blade just slipped under and then a "hook plate" that they catch with the bucket. For a short haul, seems OK.

Around me in all the new developments the lots are so small compared to the house footprint, all the foundation holes are being dug with mini excavators. A guy will do 3-4 a day so lots of unloading and loading to move from site to site. They don't allow them to drive on the street even with rubber tracks. Gets too much dirt on the street and the county don't want that washing into the storm drains.
 
Local dirt guy has a bracket his skid steer hooks the front bucket into locks the front end onto the trailer. He uses 2 chains on the rear corners, seems to be a good setup to me.

Paul
 
A young mother and her small children were killed here a few years ago like that. A 'bobcat'skidsteer was on trailer crossing a bridge.Not a single tie down,of coarse. Somehow the thing got to bounceing and swerveing ON the bridge.The machine acctually was thrown from the trailer right into the path of the womans car. The whole young family was killed immediately. The driver was unscathed,without a scratch. He went to prison. He may still be there.Moral is to chain down everything,at all times
 
Thats for the real dot . The ytdot is concerned with made up laws and what bubbas cousins uncle earl onrce overheard at a coffee shop once he thought
 
Near my place in Buckingham Co VA a crew was working on the Transco pipeline,loaded a track loader up on a trailer to go about 1/2 mile down a state dirt road, no tie downs on the loader.state trooper pulled in behind the truck as soon as it got into the road, they said it cost the company about $5,000.
 
Years ago we had a one lane underpass close to home. Big trucks and trailers weren't allowed on that road because of the height. One day I was going to work and got behind a dump truck hauling a dozer. I'm thinking man are you screwed. Nope, got to the underpass and a passenger jumped out, up on the dozer, backed off and drove through back onto the trailer and away he went.
 
A few years ago one of my neighbors hauled a compact tractor on a similar trailer with the side rails. He set the brakes and left it in gear and thought that would be adequate with no chains or straps as the trailer had the side rails. By time he got home the tractor had bounced around enough that the tires were wedged into the side rails and he couldn’t unload it.
 
Yes there are idiots out there .. then there is the guy with the 4 x8 sheets of paneling or plywood in back of a pickup. He guns it at the intersection and the load slides out. Seen this several times. And, all he has to do is meet a semi on the highway and the backdraft will flip them out. I d I o t.
Tie them down.
Then there was the guy who bought 4 x 8 material and two big sacks of dog food to throw on top.
And then there ar guys who put a few concrete blocks in the BACK of the bed for extra weight. Hit the brakes, or worse yet, a front end collision. He is injured or killed by the blocks coming through the rear of the cab! I d I o t.
Police need to be concerned about tie down violations that can injure others...rather than looking for seat belt violations...lets see, just how does that injure someone else?
 
(quoted from post at 22:14:24 09/06/20) Yes there are idiots out there .. then there is the guy with the 4 x8 sheets of paneling or plywood in back of a pickup. He guns it at the intersection and the load slides out. Seen this several times. And, all he has to do is meet a semi on the highway and the backdraft will flip them out. I d I o t.
Tie them down.
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Had a guy in front of me on the instate do this... Had it up at a 30 degree angle and it flew out and cartwheeled on the interstate at 70 miles an hour. He just drove on and never looked back.
 
Just think about all the freight in box trailer just held in place with just load locks!
 
Yes, and I really get annoyed with farmers and spray rigs going down the highway with their OVERSIZED machinery...and talking on their cellphone with 17 vehicles lined up behind them!
 
Had a guy hauling a "high Lift" run into trouble right in front of me a couple months ago. He was going down a main highway at about 65 with the machine sitting on top of a gooseneck flatbed trailer - with ZERO tie downs. I saw it moving for awhile. About a half mile from where he wanted to turn, it bounced one of the rear tires off the side and onto the ground. He got the thing around the corner and stopped. I asked him if there was anything I could do. He said "No, I'm about 3 miles from home, so I'll just limp on in...." He also blamed the "Stupid Idiots" who loaded the trailer....
It twisted the frame on the trailer, and tweaked the truck frame....
 
It's legal to drive on the street with
rubber tracks, the only machines we
can register are ones that can drive
on the street, our steel track
excavators don't have plates but the
ones with rubber pads do
 
Doesn't take much time to throw a couple chains or straps on! I was on the interstate the other week and seen a flatbed gooseneck hauling those 2x2x2 concrete blocks with no securment!
 
I get annoyed when I am on the road with machinery and an idiot is behind me laying on the horn and there is no place to pull over.
 
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