It'd be a great thing if law enforcement was as aggressive w/ unsecured loads as they are w/ speeding. Hope they heal up soon.
Actually, it would be really nice if law enforcement paid any attention at all to this sort of thing around my area. Plenty of laws on the books about securing loads, covering loads that have the potential to blow such as sand and gravel, etc. And every day I see dump trucks with sand or gravel piled in the bed and the cover still rolled up (where it has probably stayed since the truck was built). That stuff can very painful when cruising down the road at 60 mph, and just a little tough on the paint job as well. I give them a very wide berth whenever possible, but it ticks me that I never see a cop pull one over as they tool up and down the highway sandblasting anyone unfortunate enough to get stuck behind them.
Another source of frustration is the morons who think they are Joe fixit and head over to the Home Depot with a passenger car to pick up a load of building materials. The crap is tied on to the roof with that cheesy twine, or just stuck out the window, or maybe just stuck out the back with nothing more than the deck lid to hold it down. I have to drive by the local Menards, Home Depot, and Lowes every day on my way to the gym, and the road is always littered with stuff that has fallen off or out of folks vehicles. I try my best to avoid that entire stretch of road on my bike, since the fools have also been known to let entire boxes of nails fall out into the road.
My all-time favorite is the ace with a mattress lying on the roof, holding one side with his left arm out the window while his buddy is holding the right side out his window. Seems to work OK at 2 mph in the parking lot, so lets hit the highway and get this sucker home. Funny how a mattress can easily become a sail; funny, that is, unless you happen to be behind this moron when the mattress decides to go airborne.
I think life is much too easy these days, so really stupid folks somehow manage to survive and reproduce. I would propose a minimum intelligence level requirement for people to reproduce, but in our politically correct society I'm pretty certain it wouldn't fly as far as that mattress.
Jerry