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Originally Posted by bodgit
Just one thing to think about for your own safety in future. Every 10mph increases the wieght of your load by 100% under heavy breaking, so if you had to do an emergency stop or break quickly you would have had 11 tons behind you. What load could your straps or the anchor points have held before letting go.
Worth thinking about next time you have a heavy load, how safe is it really?
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Force is to do with acceleration, for a load with the mass of 1000kgs to have the force of 11000kg's while braking, the deceleration would have to be 11m/s which is the same as loosing 24.61mph a second. The stopping distance for a car at 80mph is 96m which is a deceleration of about 14.8mph or 6.6m/s. Using that the load would have the force of 6600kgs