Truck Strap Maintenance
For each trucking company, your daily routine is moving the heavily loaded truck on the road and you can not avoid using the tie-down strap to secure your cargo at the back of the flatbed to ensure the safe delivery of goods to owners. Also, securing cargo by tie down straps can prevent the loads from falling down off the truck and may hurt some other drivers on the road. So, today we are talking about truck strap maintenance.
Different weights of cargo need different truck straps with different working load limit, you also need to know how to maintain these trucker tie down straps to extend their lifespan.
Inspection Before and After Use
Remember, never use the truck tie-down straps if you found any tears and wears, you need to fix them or buy a new one.
The main problems you may find are rust truck strap ratchet, worn tie down webbing, or broken tension devices, please fix them or buy new ratchet straps to replace them. Before using the straps for truck bed, please check the working load limit on the tag.
Proper Storage
Your truck ratchet straps may get dirty after use, then you need to wash them and make sure they are completely dried before storage. For the metal part which is easy to get rusts, you need to lubricate it regularly. You can also store these truckers tie down straps according to their characters, such as strength, length, and width, by doing so you can easily identify which straps are used for securing the cargo this time.
Proper storage of truck bed straps can extend the working life, and save time and money.
Tagging Your Truck Cargo Straps
Sometimes you need to roll up the truck cargo straps and you can not see the working load limit easily before unfolding. So, if you can tag these moving truck straps, then you can easily find the right one when you need them. Such as mark the capacity, length, the width of the strap on the sticker and you can easily check.
Clearly tagged your truck bed tie down straps can save time and money. Imagine that if someone uses the lightweight truck straps to tie down the heavy load, it will cause serious problems. So, don’t forget this small matter, tagging necessary information on straps help you a lot.
Following our tips will help you make the best use of truck straps.
