truck bed walls?

ive noticed all the other pickup trucks at the scrap yard have walls on them

is it legal to have stuff stacked higher than the walls of your truck without these rack/walls?
even if everything is tied down secured?
what if not everything is tied down but rather locked in?

Here, the law is that if the bottom of the item is higher that the "wall" (truck or trailer), it has to be securely strapped. Losing a load is not good.

I've driven around with this load unstrapped, and I have to drive by a prison and courthouse to get home...I am not sure what the law is in Texas, but I've never been stopped for an unstrapped load.

Law here in Dallas....if it falls off your truck you get a ticket...if it stays on your truck you are fine.

Now...if it just falls off = slap on the hand

falls off and stays in the road way (you dont pick it up) = ticket that can hurt you for a few days

falls off and hits a car = your not going to be happy...one the owner of car will be very unhappy and the cop is going to slap you with a pretty good size ticket for "causing a accident on the road way"

Falls off and hurts someone based on how badly they are hurt could mean jail time.

Falls off and kills someone...you should know the out come on this one.

In short...if you THINK it will fall off...strap the sucker down or put side walls if you dont want to be messing with straps all day. I have a trailer thats 18foot with 7foot walls all the way around. I have 5 two inch 25feet long tie down straps that have a weight limit of 4,000 or something like that. What I do know...I have used them to pull my truck out of the Texas mud a few times in a pinch.

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

falls off and stays in the road way (you dont pick it up) = ticket that can hurt you for a few days

Haha I shouldn't laugh, can't help it though. This has happened to me once before, except no cops were around. I had a 2 seater bike, a mountain bike, CRT monitor, backyard swing bench and a piece of chain link fence catch wind and all of it pulled out as if it were tied together...All of it on US 59 at 65 mph, in light traffic. Luckily it all slid off the side of the road so was able to just back up and pick it all back up.. I strapped it down after that :P