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If you have a bedliner, you have to pull that load in tension across the back and tighten it with motorcycle straps or the like. If not, it will slip right on out the back, friction free. Kind of one of the points of having a bedliner. A poseur truck owner wouldn't know this, the same as they wouldn't know how or why to tie a trucker's hitch. You don't have to be completely inexperienced to screw this up but it helps.
As someone who has decades of experience safely hauling loads of all shapes and sizes I'll add my two cents:
Any load hanging out the back of the truck needs to be flagged. If a car behind me could hit the cargo before my truck, it's getting a big bright flag. (most big box stores have them for free right by the exit)
Hauling anything with the tailgate down is asking for problems.
Composite decking is surprisingly easy to snap when unsupported. He should have pulled the back of the unibody off with a trailer for this. (Or jackknifed it into the shiny dumpster failing to back it up)
Anything that you could see blowing around in a tornado needs to be strapped down. Almost anything will fly out of a bed at highway speeds. Ratcheting straps in an x from corner to corner for 90% of the time.
Every truck has ratcheting straps ready to go. Otherwise it's just a pavement princess/dick extender/soothing balm for fragile masculinity.
Even my old Mazda 3 had ratchet straps in case I unexpectedly needed to transport something on the roof.
I drive a Santa Cruz and even I have straps and tie-downs.
Very good points.
I had started to describe with more detail that I was a cabinet and furniture maker for decades and still work in industry as a designer, but was annoying even myself with the description (didn't want to be lecturing folks further). Anyhow, I once saw a guy I worked for send a client off with an expensive piece I had just finished, without lifting a finger to secure the load. That piece exploded out of the bed, somewhere between our shop and the Bay Bridge, splintering onto the freeway. Dude made this woman pay for replacement, said contract stipulated as such. Even supposedly experienced jagoffs like that guy can blow it royally.