Things You Should Do and Shouldn’t Do for Cargo Securement

Today, we are going to talk about the things you should do and shouldn’t do for cargo securement, especially for the first-time mover. No matter you are the shipping company or the individuals who want to move or do the business of transporting goods.

Things You Shouldn’t Do for Cargo Securement with Tie Down Straps

1. Exceed the limitation of your vehicle. As we can see on the urban roads and highways, there are some pickup trucks and SUVs that load the goods exceed the limitation in size and weight. This is very dangerous, because this may cause the vehicle to overturn, or the falling of the goods may affect passing vehicles. When the car is driving on the road, it will encounter many uncontrollable situations. For example, sudden braking, sudden lane change, and sometimes there may be vehicle crashes, etc. If the cargo is overloaded, the problem will be serious. We commend check your car weight limitation and never exceed it. For the height limitation, we suggest never exceed 2 boxes tall in height.
2. Improper tie-down straps. Each of our tie down straps marked the working load limit and breaking strength very clearly, that’s why we suggest customers choose the proper tie down strap for specific cargo securement. Of course, you should know the weight of your cargo before tie down. Choosing the securing straps much lighter or much heavier than your cargo is not good for cargo securement.
3. Stack the goods too high. Some motorists want to earn more money from the customer, so they will stack the loads too high and someone even does not stack irregularly, the cargo is very easy to fall down, so please do not load the goods too high in order to make fewer trips, it is dangerous.
4. Transport the car through the vehicle window. In this case, we could see most in transporting scrapped cars to junkyards, although these are end-of-life vehicles, we do not suggest you do so, since cars are not designed to be transported in that way, we still need to secure them in the proper securement point.

Things You Should Do for Cargo Securement with Tie Down Straps

1. we suggest customer secure the loads at least 4 securement point. 4 securement point is more stable than 2 securement point. Even if during transportation, a sudden brake, the sudden lane change or one of your straps suddenly breaks, 4 tie down straps can create less of a strain on each cargo strap.
2. Corner protectors are very useful in cargo securement. Using a corner protector seems to increase your cost of transportation, but the corner protector or Cordura sleeve or the edge guard can protect your loads from been overtightened, or protect the tie down strap from been worn. So, in another way, this does not increase your transportation cost, this helps you save a lot.
3. Quality is always more important than price. The business will win because of profit, but what is profit? Some people think profit is only price/cost, but we prefer profit is quality and service with proper price. Webslingness work in this industry and get good reputation these years because of our quality and customized service with affordable price.

If you are interested in customizing ratchet tie down straps or need our help to select the proper tie-down straps, feel free to call or WhatsApp us at (0086) 1505 1715 196 or send an inquiry to info@webslingness.com, you can also fill out the form below or chat with us online.