Cargo Lashing Course
This course equips participants with essential skills for safe and compliant cargo lashing on South African roads, covering load planning, physics, equipment selection, securing techniques, and legal requirements to minimize risks and operational disruptions.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
The Cargo Lashing Course provides practical, step-by-step training to secure loads safely and legally on South African roads. Learn friction basics, force behaviour, load distribution, and flatbed layout for a 13.5 m truck. Master equipment selection, lashing patterns for pallets, coils, and crates, plus checklists, inspections, documentation, and emergency actions to reduce damage, fines, and delays in daily operations.
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Develop skills
- Plan flatbed load layouts: optimise axle weight, access and stability.
- Apply lashing physics: use friction, inertia and force paths to secure cargo.
- Select lashing gear: match straps, chains and tensioners to cargo and WLL.
- Secure specific loads: palletised goods, steel coils, heavy crates and mixed cargo.
- Follow South African rules: meet legal cargo securing, inspection and documentation.
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