The FMCSA is a program put in place for the trucking industry and for those trucks who cross state lines. Its a system put in place so all trucks going everywhere are all on the same page and there's no confusion as to what has to be done.
How do you chain down your tractor
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Would seem so but each state can and does enact their own laws. Also it's those state vehical enforcement officers that patrol the highways not federal agents.
All in all it boils down to this, everyone should check and be responsible to follow statues of their own local and to move equipment in safe manner. As they say, the life you save may be your own.
All in all it boils down to this, everyone should check and be responsible to follow statues of their own local and to move equipment in safe manner. As they say, the life you save may be your own.
Exactly! A driver (lucky or not) hitting every state need not have 48 different tie down means and methods. We all adhere to USDOT standards when it comes to motor vehicle design, safety, helmets, eye protection, etc...why not load securing. In fact our local, state, and county police enforce federal motor vehicle laws. Ever see a weigh station staffed by federalies?
I'll ask my next over the road delivery driver what he has to say. Thats the best source regardless. What the heck I'm just an electrician with a Kubota and the internet!!!
Each requirement is different for each load and the truck that it carries it on. If you take a dry van that has a load of pallets. All that is required is the pallets be shrink rapped and loaded together and as simple as a cargo bar is all that's needed to keep 14 pallets still from moving. If the dry van over turns and all those pallets go upside down its highly unlikely they'll end up all over the road making a bigger mess. Now with a flat bed trailer each and every item on that deck has to have separate tie downs on it. For example I drove a flat bed tractor trailer hauling concrete pipe. I hauled concrete structures for storm water and sewage collection. Every single piece of concrete had to have a chain or a strap depending on its size and weight. Have I lose you and got you confused yet?!!?
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