Re: Another trailer binder question

Posted by Hugh MacKay again on December 14, 2005 at 00:25:11 from (216.208.58.152):

In Reply to: Re: Another trailer binder question posted by RustyFarmall on December 13, 2005 at 17:01:42:

Rusty: Having said what I did about good and poor quality both in straps and chains. I believe the main reason some jurisdictions have said straps only, is the guy in the chair at the truck inspection station can tell right from the seat if you have the proper test strength of straps. They are all color coded, and since he only gets to actually see less than 10% of loads going by, he does not have the time to go out and inspect chains.

With the volume of truck traffic going by some inspection stations, particularly close to the Canada - US border, these guys are using some quite high tech equipment. There is photo equipment, audio equipment and weight sencing equipment out on the highway. They know in advance which trucks need closer inspection.

We have one such inspection station here in SW Ontario, located on the 401 midway between two crossings between MI - ON border and three crossings between ON - NY border in the Niagara Falls area. These guys regularly get local trucks, cross border trucks and US trucks in route from MI, WI, MN to the Eastern Seaboard. The same will be true of Canadian trucks going from SW ON to Western Canada via MI, WI and MN. I suspect these guys can tell you a lot more about the trucks going by than one would even care to imagine. I further suspect that when a truck enters US customs from either direction, they know if driver has a pimple on his backside.

I was at US Customs booth at Port Huron. One evening just as I was going to pass customs officer my manifest, he said, "you'll have to wait a min." He vacated his booth with gun drawn, next thing I saw was three customs officers with guns drawn in the next lane to the one I was in. At that point all they had seen was an approaching truck, they had not seen his manifest. 30 seconds later one customs officer was in the cab. I don't know where driver went, too much concrete. My point is US Customs knew exactly what they were looking for before that truck arrived. I think checking chains or straps has to be kept rather quick and simple for truck inspection station guys, they have a lot more on the table than we think.

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