Tie that load down PROPERLY!!

Yep, coming back from our Xmas break over the Bolte bridge here in Melbourne on the opposite side of the road 3 cars were pulled over where obviously someone was doing exactly the same thing as you but it was some type of wooden cabinet.
The end result was the cabinet going into the windscreen of the following car directly in front of the driver. We didn't see it happen but the end result looked particularly nasty.
We've all been guilty at some time I suppose but it pays to take a few extra minutes and secure your load at all times. I would hate to be responsible for injuring or killing someone simply for not taking the extra time to tie things down properly.
Regards Andrew.

Axle I think I know what you mean.

I tied everything on like drum tight, I was having a clean up and was dumping the lot.Got to the dump OK.

Untieing all my junk. Parked next to a real tidy looken Ford Falcon.
I have a tip trailer started tipping the trailer and a piece of timber fell from my trailer and hit the car next to me . Dented his boot and back fender.(tiny dents)

Not a happy Chappy.( the man in the Ford) Don't blame him at all.

I got the quote the other day $770.00 chit couldn't believe a couple of small dents could cost so much. So I did the right thing.

Jeff M (SA)

Axle,,,,where do we start mate?
You are a silly,silly,silly boy.
SWMBO will now consider complete ownership of your soul for at least the next 6 months to be entirely her's.
Just when you think the dust has settled, she will bring it up at the most opportune moment's throughout your life to remind you over and over that you are a silly,silly,silly boy.
!). You should have thought about dinner before you tied down the bed.
2).Why the hell didn't you tie it down better?
3). Most importantly,,,,why the hell didn't you rush to the nearest bedding store for another bed, so that you could hide this most silly of error's on your part.
4).Do you like baked beans???????/. I reckon you could be eating them for a few more days to come.
5). How's the dog's house,,,,,nice and cozy is it????.Will you be carpeting it now????
lololol ROFLMOL :):):):):):):)

sorry mate but you did a big booboo...........:)

meow.

rick.

wait till a ladder comes off at 120k/hr...scary !

yep go to members pages and down load truckies knot....have others if you want

I was in "the car behind" a while back on a country road. Didn't get hit because I could see the "load unravelling" so to speak on the trailer in front and backed off. Tried the horn and tried to raise the driver in front on the regularly used CB channels but no luck (not even sure they had a radio). Not long after furniture started bit by bit flying off the trailer and literally smashing to small bits on the road behind. I had dropped back far enough so it wasn't a danger to me but felt really helpless because the driver didn't realise what was happenning and just kept going losing more stuff all the time. I couldn't dare get closer to signal in fear of being caught up in flying debris.

In the end they turned off the road I wanted to go on so never did find out the end result. There was nothing I could do anyway.

Generally I tie my load down to what I think is enough and then add 1 more rope just for good measure.

Cheers
Trev

Truckies Hitch link courtesy of the Mitsubishi 4WD club of Qld, I believe.

Jack

Axle
In the truck industry we call that Insecure loading , big fine for that and so it should be, Might be some members who remember the Motorcycle Police officer who was struck in the face with a lump of sawn firewood when it fell off the truck on the Newcastle Expressway back in the early 90s, It bounced and he road into it , killed him instantly

Axle

Rest assured you are not alone. I had a similar mishap on a Freeway and with some undamaged stuff lying on the road surface. 'Blind Freddy' drivers just plowed through making the saving operation useless.

But me mate in Darwin had a classic. He was doing a job and an old door had to be taken to the tip. He threw the said door on the roof rack of the Troopy. But things happened and he forgot about it. Drove around for weeks like that. Then one day a slight updraft caused the door to become airborne. It hit a very well mounted roofrack of a Suzuki 4x4 travelling behind. The young lady was in shock when the whole caboodle stopped to evaluate the damage......as she sat there in her now Convertible Suzuki. Yep, it tore the roof and rack right off!! Cost me mate plenty!!!

Cheers

Some poor bugger was almost killed when a fence post fell off a truck out the back of Cessnock on Tuesday. It went through the windscreen and hit him in the head.

I followed a truck out to work that had 2 scissor lifts on board. In the base of those things is a large battery tray that as a guess would hold 7 or 8 truck batteries. This thing swings out like a gate and was swinging all the way. T full stretch it almost took the head off a guy on a pushie that he overtook.
I’m flashing lights and honking the horn and getting no response at all. This goes on for 10km, untill ½ a km from the front gate he turns left off the roundabout and the tray swings shut and latches.

Probably wondered whet the clown in the vehicle behind him was on about.

Another good reason for allowing a bit of a gap between vehicles.

Ten years or so ago, company I was with had a load of steel pipes on the back of a B-double tootling down the Pacific Highway. Our engineer-designed tie downs managed to fail just as a BMW was passing on the way through Coffs Harbour. One pipe dropped right on top of the beemer.

Real potential for disaster, but somehow, the two people in the car were not injured. The car was a write off though!

Huge fright that one! Got the engineers to rework their sums too.

It can be a worry - baked beans taste nasty!

Max

Someone didn't tie their load down when leaving the Windscreens O'Brien depot in Garling St O'Connor this afternoon too. A yellow truck and one biiigggg pile of glass to clean up. Doh.

I think there might have to be a few cartons put on this Friday.

The year is 1972. The scene is the M6 motorway just north of Keele Service Area. I get called out by the police to attend a "breakdown" of one of our semis. I used to do most if not all of the breakdowns and call outs.

It was carrying 3 reinforced concrete beams, each 20 feet long - max weight load - so just one was about 7 tonnes.

As I arrived on the scene the cops said, "You're not gonna like this one, Les, hold on to yer breakfast".

The truck had braked really hard. One beam had come loose and slid forward- straight through the trailers backboard, cut the top clean off the cab, cut the driver clean in two - and there was his head and guts at my feet!! Legs were still in the cab!

I was having a pint with him in Liverpool the day before. Now dead as doornail.

We reckon he'd felt a heart attack coming on and hit the "deadmans handle". This 3rd line emergency air brake system stops trucks pretty damn hard. Too hard in this case.

Bilbo

I always make sure everything is tied down very securely.
Back in the mid 70's, we were travelling around the outside fence up in Cairns at the time. We had an old Effie100 with a packrack on the back canopy. I used to keep the spare tyre up there and had only travelled about 5000k's with it there not tied down. One day we were heading down to Bellenden Ker and I heard this bit of a noise so I look in the rear vision mirror to see this spare wheel bounce on to the road and back up into the air just as a following car passed beneath it. I know I cacked myself and I'm sure that the other driver did too. Consequences could have been horrific. When I pulled over the other vehicle just kept going.

I can add a slightly different one, that also punished me the most!

My son had a minor bingle in his old magna, and I'd given him hell for it.

front bumper slightly mis-shaped, one bumper indicator broken that I'd replaced a week before, and the centre part of the front pushed back a bit so the bonnet wouldn't shut properly, and the radiator top tank split.

So I told him I could fix the radiator and bumper, and pull everything into line for him, give it a quick spray with paint left over from doing a job before and he can pay me the costs.

Well, I decided to pop down to the wreckers for another indicator lamp, and took the car because I wanted to check out what other parts would be needed for the front.

No problems. But at the yard I couldn't get the bonnet down even on the first latch.

Bugger I thought that'll do. I'll take it slow.

50 metres from home as I turned the corner there was a bl**dy gust of wind and the bonnet whanged up, smack over the screen and bent over the roof line.

I was up for a new bonnet, spraying, replacing the windscreen and spreading a little dirt across the dents in the roof line to hide them.
The rest of the job was easy after that!

I kept pretty quiet about it !!

Ken

towing a trailer to the tip and came up to a busy intersection,looked in the rear view mirror to see the wheel/tyre assembly I,d put on the trailer roll off and heading straight towards the highway in front of me.I quickly opened my car door and the wheel rolled into the door and stopped.No damage but if the wheel had hit the highway might have caused a crash.Gave me a bloody good laugh too.
Cheers John.

First day of our big trip 1/2 way around Oz just leaving Katherine and saw a 1 tonner with a large fridge on the back, It was tied down with a piece of telecom rope just 1 from the side up over the top and tied to the other side that was it.
As we got closer I saw it tilt back and said to the wife look at this I then backed of just in time to see this fridge do a onto the highway and watched it skid for 50 + mtrs down the road needless to say it was buggered and yes they had just picked it up from being repaired .