Do you put load locks on loads of rolled paper stacked vertically?

Never have. Its usually so heavy I dont worry about em moving.

 

If you're talking about the rear of the load, load locks are almost less then useless on these loads. Straps are better if you have e-track. But on front rolls that aren't against the nose of the trailer? Forget it.

Not a lot a van driver can do with these except drive sensibly and maybe do a few "quick stops" along the way to keep everything snug that might have vibrated back some on rough uphill stretches.

Seems like paper roll loaders sometimes can load trailers in a way that makes no sense other then they want to cause the driver/carrier grief

 

#### that ####! Slam those mother####ing doors closed and hit the mother####ing road mother####er!

Them rolls ain't going nowhere unless you put that ##### in low gear and really jerk it off. Otherwise, I wouldn't really give a #### if you ask me.

I've trained a couple stupid #####es and have had these sons of #####es rockin and swinging the truck in every way you never thought was possible and never have I had a ####ing paper roll fall over on me.

So run that ####, and if you scared? Tell your dispatcher to get you a load to a church!

Boom! Crackle Crackle best post ever!

 

I've hauled lots of paper, and the way you describe, I'm not sure where you put the load bar. You mean on the very back of the last roll, by the doors? Assuming the last roll was almost on the back, or was there a space, like 4 or 5 rolls straight in, then a space and the remaining rolls. If there was a space, I never did anything. They used to put these rubber mats down, so the rolls wouldn't move, not sure they still do that. Rolls are tricky, they weigh as much as a pickup. Did you mash on the brakes? I guess I don't get where the load bar was.

 

Did your roll of paper fall over and crush your load lock or did the roll just slide back over it, most shippers nail toe boards into floor to keep rolls from sliding, but straps hooked into the slots inside walls will hold most rolls from moving.

 

Unloaded these things with a clamp truck at a printing factory for years. Never saw one fall or move.

 

Wow, that's a lot of hashtags. Must you speak like that?

 

There's really not much you can do to brace those that actually does anything meaningful. Drive carefully and smoothly and don't do anything that would upset the apple cart. I've hauled a lot of those things on much less than great roads. Drive as though your life depends on it because in reality, it does.