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Channel 19
New tool for placing hard-to-reach edge protectors and more when securing flatbed loads
The new steel Gavase Tool, designed at the instigation of owner-operator Ricardo Flores, mounts to an extension pole and is suitable for a variety of flatbed load-securement uses, including the basic installation of straps and plastic or metal strap/chain corner protectors and V boards or other wood, and more.
February 19, 2019
Business
And the flatbed adventure begins …
“I feel like the guy who shows up at the job site with new boots and a new tool belt.” — George Parker’s flatbed transition, in the books.
August 5, 2015
Business
There’s an app for that
Another electronic device to tell you when you’re tired! Wendy looks at the “reasons professionally licensed human beings in the transportation industry no longer have the ability to tell themselves they’re tired.” …
May 27, 2015
Channel 19
Driver dispatch from a series of wintry hazmat loads over Loveland Pass
With the city of Buffalo under multiple feet of snow in November, driver Don Christner and his running partner were quietly but heroically hauling hazmat on a series of loads over Loveland Pass in Colorado, quite wintry itself…
January 6, 2015
Overdrive Extra
Taking no chances with flatbed coil securement
In a video, WTI Transport Safety Instructor Gene Sims demonstrates the conservative coil securement methods he teaches.
January 28, 2014
Voices
Securement 201: How best to chain to a stake pocket
What is the best way to use a stake pocket as a chain anchor point? Reader J.D. Bronson, among others, offers his preferred method.
September 25, 2012
Channel 19
Drivers’ safety conversation continues
If the handheld cell ban for drivers (which goes into effect Jan. 3) has done anything for the nation’s interstate haulers, it’s upped the ante on the conversation on this blog about the direction of safety in the industry. Driver and radio host Big Al Weekley is back today with a lament for the safety […]
December 20, 2011
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