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<blockquote data-quote="Ya Dad" data-source="post: 5948566" data-attributes="member: 40478">I&#039;ve been in Feeders for six years and 14 total with company, and I was always told, starting out as a loader, that all trailers need a load bar or strap before you shut it down. Now that we are low on load bars, I&#039;m being told that they don&#039;t need them and that it&#039;s not a DOT requirement, contrary to what I read in Title 49 years ago, and I got told, as a shifter, to stop sitting on moves and just pull the trailer when it&#039;s shut down. I&#039;ve been putting load bars on trailers this entire time and it&#039;s never been an issue until now.I know a lot of drivers don&#039;t care about load bars anymore. I only do it because it&#039;s UPS policy (although apparently not anymore according to someone in dispatch) and I thought it was a DOT regulation. However, I can&#039;t find the information on load bars/straps in §396 regarding load securement, but I know it found it somewhere.So, short of talking to safety or stopping at my local FMCSA, I figured I would ask here tonight and check out the answers in the morning.Thanks in advance for the help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ya Dad, post: 5948566, member: 40478"] I've been in Feeders for six years and 14 total with company, and I was always told, starting out as a loader, that all trailers need a load bar or strap before you shut it down. Now that we are low on load bars, I'm being told that they don't need them and that it's not a DOT requirement, contrary to what I read in Title 49 years ago, and I got told, as a shifter, to stop sitting on moves and just pull the trailer when it's shut down. I've been putting load bars on trailers this entire time and it's never been an issue until now. I know a lot of drivers don't care about load bars anymore. I only do it because it's UPS policy (although apparently not anymore according to someone in dispatch) and I thought it was a DOT regulation. However, I can't find the information on load bars/straps in §396 regarding load securement, but I know it found it somewhere. So, short of talking to safety or stopping at my local FMCSA, I figured I would ask here tonight and check out the answers in the morning. Thanks in advance for the help. [/QUOTE]

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