Prepare for Loading & Secure Truck/Trailer

okay before anything else happens you have a second person in your company double check to see how you've got this hooked up if you don't have that option just take the time and physically touch all of your connections to make sure that everything is the way you want it this is an important step of the process because when you're going down the road if you have a failure in any one of those points it can add up really fast like a big giant snowball going down the road you don't want to load going down a hill pass backwards and you don't want to load going forward down a hill you want to be on flat level ground as possible so choose where you're going to put your load on is really a critical element of it okay we've got the truck and trailer about as flat and level as we have for the options here but before we even put anything on it the trailer deck needs to be cleared you don't run a trailer down the road with mud dirt debris and worse yet rocks because they'll bounce off and they'll hit somebody's car so you clean your trailer top before you load it you clean your tracks of your equipment before you put it up and a clean trailer looks good to the d.o.t as well so our truck is hooked up it's in park we're on flat level ground but by no means are we ready to load here's where the second person gets really important if you have the option of having a second person on site have them go into the truck turn the truck on fully operational put the truck in neutral and hold their foot on the brake and the reason that you want to do it in that order is because if you just leave the truck in park you're depending on that one gear in the transmission to hold everything in place your transmission is not designed for that your brakes are designed for that your brakes are designed to stop and hold your vehicle so utilize the brakes not the transmission by jumping in the truck and putting it in neutral you've taken the stress off from the transmission by having someone hold their foot on the brakes you're activating the brakes of the truck as well as the brakes of the trailer so everything is now locked together you're gonna less likely go down the hill bass backwards but you're not always going to have that second person available so here's what i'm going to recommend you do if you're by yourself and you're loading don't rely on that transmission to hold you start the truck up put stomp on that parking brake all the way to the floor get the truck so that everything is…