61-9-414. Logging trucks. (1) A truck or truck trailer combination, except pole trailers, actively engaged in transporting logs must be equipped with chains, cables, steel straps, or fiber webbing with working load limits that meet or exceed the manufacturer's marked value. The number of tie-down assemblies must be determined by the working load limits and the total weight of the load. The working load limits must equal or exceed 1 1/2 times the total weight of the load.
     (2) A pole trailer actively engaged in transporting logs upon the highways of the state must be equipped as follows:
     (a) At least three binders are required as standard equipment. The binders must:
     (i) be made of steel chain or steel cable;
     (ii) have a minimum diameter of three-eighths of an inch; and
     (iii) be long enough to encompass any load when secured by a fastener.
     (b) Binders used to secure loads of logs together must be fastened by means of a fastener.
     (i) The minimum diameter of the portions of the fastener under direct stress from the binder must be three-eighths of an inch.
     (ii) The handle, or leverage portion of the fastener, when in use in tightening and holding the binder must be securely fastened to the binder or to the fastener so that it cannot be accidentally loosened.
     (c) At least two binders must be in use on all loads. The binders must be placed as close as reasonably possible to the front and rear bunks.
     (d) If short logs are loaded on top of longer logs, sufficient binders must be used to secure both ends of the short logs to the main body of the load. A log may not extend laterally beyond the stakes that form the outer boundary of the load at the top of the stakes. Logs or poles loaded above the tops of the stakes must be loaded in a pyramidal fashion.

     History: En. Sec. 119, Ch. 263, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 233, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 182, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, (part); amd. Sec. 33, Ch. 431, L. 1997.