Lashlander
Senior Member
do those trucks just sit there or do they get chained to the top of the container
The truck is lashed down to the flat they are on with 1/2" long link chain, tightened with 7/8" turnbuckles. Then they stack the containers with cones between them to keep them from sliding on each other. Then each container is crossed chained to the deck of the barge on each end. They use 30" bars to tighten the chains. On our barge I tell my guys to tighten em til they smoke and then take em a quarter of a turn. Its a lot of hard work to lash down the barges.
Even after all that they come in once in a while with whole stacks of containers missing or tipped over on deck. One came in a couple years ago with a 5 high stack on reefers tipped over on one of their forklifts. I had to take our crane down to pick them off of it. Scored some killer seafood from it though.