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<blockquote data-quote="retiredTxfeeder" data-source="post: 1629090" data-attributes="member: 52978"><p>I'll give you another example. Down here in the district I worked in, we had 3 or 4 flatbed trailers with rollers built in that were used to transport air containers. They were used only when necessary, but they saw a lot of use. During peak, they rented about 4 more flatbeds and bolted down sets of rollers like they used in the buildings to go between package cars during preload. They loaded air containers on those and strapped them down with nylon straps. They also came up with some angle iron to go over the bottom edges of the cans. About half my night was pulling air trailers. They asked my input to make them safer. I went to Lowe's and bought some hardware and put it together in my garage. For about 25 bucks/trailer it made them probably about 75% more safe to pull. They said good idea, but it takes too much time to secure the cans, so thanks, but no thanks. That year we had 3 cans roll off those trailers in traffic, and one caused a multi-car accident with injuries. That extra 5-10 minutes cost too much in labor to implement, in their opinion. They also wanted to strap only the rear can down and not the 3 towards the front. I finally convinced them to strap all 4 down, at least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="retiredTxfeeder, post: 1629090, member: 52978"] I'll give you another example. Down here in the district I worked in, we had 3 or 4 flatbed trailers with rollers built in that were used to transport air containers. They were used only when necessary, but they saw a lot of use. During peak, they rented about 4 more flatbeds and bolted down sets of rollers like they used in the buildings to go between package cars during preload. They loaded air containers on those and strapped them down with nylon straps. They also came up with some angle iron to go over the bottom edges of the cans. About half my night was pulling air trailers. They asked my input to make them safer. I went to Lowe's and bought some hardware and put it together in my garage. For about 25 bucks/trailer it made them probably about 75% more safe to pull. They said good idea, but it takes too much time to secure the cans, so thanks, but no thanks. That year we had 3 cans roll off those trailers in traffic, and one caused a multi-car accident with injuries. That extra 5-10 minutes cost too much in labor to implement, in their opinion. They also wanted to strap only the rear can down and not the 3 towards the front. I finally convinced them to strap all 4 down, at least. [/QUOTE]
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