All I could afford wrote:Around here,any contractor or workman worth his salt carries ladders secured on a rack. I sure don't let my ladders blow off on the road, they cost good money. I do see a bunch of homeowners or guys trying to make a living doing odd jobs with poorly secured ladders or other. I cringe every time I pull out of Home Depot and see Joe Homeowner just throwing stuff in the box of a pickup and taking off. "It should be OK" is the mantra of a non-professional.
Poorly secured ladders were always a peeve of mine. Particularly being Id like to assume the majority of people transporting ladders are some sort of home-improvement contractor. I used to joke that if they can't take two minutes to properly secure their own ladder in their own truck, rather just say "I guess this bungie cord is good enough", imagine the attitude when it's your house they are working on and there's a right way and a wrong way to resolve a problem.
bobndot wrote:
couldn't agree more
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/driver-who-lost-ladder-fatal-285-crash-could-face-criminal-charges/thF5va1VAfgblkkmHG4IzO/
“Most things that have been purchased recently have a bar code that shows who bought it, when it was purchased and where it was purchased.”
pira114 wrote:
I'm tired of ladders. Is it really that hard to secure a ladder to your truck? I've had a ladder in or on my truck for years. I value my tools. I've never lost a ladder, or any tool, while driving. It's hard to imagine so many people either don't care to secure them, or don't know how.
PaulJ2 wrote:
A few years back we drove through a Morman Cricket migration near the Ruby mountains in Nevada. The highway as well as the countryside was black with their crawling bodies. It sounded like driving through water or on wet pavement.
This was for about a mile and my Cherokee's undercarrage and inner fenders were a mess with their crushed bodies.
I'm sure if we didn't keep our speed down, we could have slid off the highway.
