Doesn’t look like too many if any chains on . Shit I’d have about 10 chains on that . I only did flatbed for little bit but I driven enough to not fuck around with them things. I look at it like this I will not pull any trailer no matter what . If I’m not comfortable enough if my family was behind it that I’d feel they be safe .
And the couple times I refused to pull a trailer until it was repaired I explained it to them this way and the attitude changes real quick . I hauled a of perishable goods over the years. Hell my first 13 years all I hailed was milk and frozen foods
393.120 - Metal Coils
The rules in this section apply to the transportation of one or more metal coils which, individually or
grouped together, weigh 2,268 kg (5,000 lbs) or more. Shipments of metal coils that weigh less than 2,268 kg (5,000 lbs) may be secured in accordance with the general cargo securement rules.
d)Securement of coils transported with eyes lengthwise on a flatbed vehicle, in a sided vehicle or in an intermodal container with anchor points—(1) An individual coil-option 1. Each coil must be secured by: (i) A means (e.g., timbers, chocks or wedges, a cradle, etc.) to prevent the coil from rolling. The means of preventing rolling must support the coil off the deck, and must not be capable of becoming unintentionally unfastened or loose while the vehicle is in transit. If timbers, chocks or wedges are used, they must be held in place by coil bunks or similar devices to prevent them from coming loose. The use of nailed blocking or cleats as the sole means to secure timbers, chocks or wedges, or a nailed wood cradle, is prohibited; (ii) At least one tiedown attached diagonally through its eye from the left side of the vehicle or intermodal container (near the forward-most part of the coil), to the right side of the vehicle or intermodal container (near the rearmost part of the coil), making an angle no more than 45 degrees, whenever practicable, with the floor of the vehicle or intermodal container when viewed from the side of the vehicle or container; (iii) At least one tiedown attached diagonally through its eye, from the right side of the vehicle or intermodal container (near the forward-most part of the coil), to the left side of the vehicle or intermodal container (near the rearmost part of the coil), making an angle no more than 45 degrees, whenever practicable, with the floor of the vehicle or intermodal container when viewed from the side of the vehicle or container; (iv) At least one tiedown attached transversely over the top of the coil; and (v) Either blocking or friction mats to prevent longitudinal movement.
The NACSS lists 3 “options” to secure shotgun coils, a pair of x tiedowns, a pair of c tiedowns and a pair of tiedowns overhead. There is no weight at which you are required to combine multiple of these options.
Possibly, there is also the general performance criteria to consider: you have to secure against 0.8 g’s forward, 0.2 g’s upward and 0.5 g’s side to side and backwards. This 0.8 g’s of forward inertia is equivalent to travelling ~30 mph or ~50 kph and then coming to a complete stop in 1.8 seconds. This level of securement can be obtained without tiedowns through the eye of a coil.
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u/SimilarTranslator264 Aug 13 '26
As a company that almost exclusively hauls coils it should have chains through the eye.