In what circumstance can shortwood be treated as longwood?

• When it is painted green on the ends.
• When it is embedded in a stack of longwood.
• When it is stacked long-ways on the trailer.
• Right after it is cut down.

What's in a stack?

Some stacks may be made up of both shortwood and longwood. Any stack that includes shortwood must follow the shortwood securement requirements.

Exception: If shortwood is embedded in load of longwood, it can be treated as longwood.

Cargo is contained when:

• It is loaded on the end of the truck.
• it fills a sided vehicle, and every article is in contact with or sufficiently close to a wall or other articles so that it cannot shift or tip if those other articles are also unable to shift or tip.
• It fills a void between articles of cargo and the structure of the vehicle that has sufficient strength to prevent movement of the articles of cargo.
• It is packed in a square box.

If the cargo is fully contained in a sided vehicle, what is the minimum requirement for withstanding sideways force?

• 0.2g (20% of cargo weight)
• 0.7g (70% of cargo weight)
• 0.5g (50% of cargo weight)
• 0.8g (80% of cargo weight)

If you were instructed to 'tarp' a load, what would you be using?

• A waterproof sheet used to cover cargo.
• A platform or tray on which cargo is placed so that it can be handled as an article.
• A strip of material that may be used to unitize articles and is tensioned and clamped or crimped back upon itself.
• A short piece of material, usually wood, nailed to the deck to reinforce blocking.

Who is responsible for inspecting securing devices and cargo within the first 50 miles?

• The driver.
• The D.O.T.
• Your Moms.
• The shipper.

When using tiedowns to secure boulders, all of the following are requirements except:

• Use only chain to secure large boulders.
• Tiedowns must be arranged to prevent sliding across the rock surface.
• Tiedowns should be located in valleys or notches across the top of the boulder.
• Boulders must be loaded as far back towards the rear as possible.

Requirements

Use only chain to secure large boulders.

Tiedowns in direct contact with the boulder:

Should be located in valleys or notches across the top of the boulder

Must be arranged to prevent sliding across the rock surface.

In cargo securement, what is a 'cleat' defined as?

• A short piece of material, usually wood, nailed to the deck to reinforce blocking.
• Part of the structure, fitting, or attachment on a vehicle or cargo to which a tiedown is attached.
• A tapered or wedge-shaped piece used to secure round articles against rolling.
• A tapered piece of material, thick at one end and thin at the other.

What is the maximum weight that can be secured by a tiedown with a marked WLL of 5,000 lbs?

• 10,000 lbs
• 2,500 lbs
• 6,000 lbs
• 5,000 lbs

A hook-lift container is:

• A specialized container, primarily used to contain and transport materials in the waste, recycling, construction/demolition, and scrap industries, which are used in conjunction with specialized vehicles, in which the container isloaded and unloaded onto a tilt frame body by an articulating hook-arm.
• The load carrying area of a truck, trailer, or intermodal container.
• A reusable, transportable enclosure that is especially designed with integral locking devices that secure it to a container chassis trailer to facilitate the efficient and bulk shipping and transfer of goods by, or between various modes of transport, such as highway, rail, sea, and air.
• A vehicle especially built and fitted with locking devices for the transport of intermodal containers.

When securing paper rolls with eyes vertical in a sided vehicle all of the following are acceptable except:

• Placing the rolls against each other.
• Placing rolls against the front and walls of the vehicle.
• Placing the rolls against other cargo.
• Placing rolls against the doors.

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