Lumber Tutu

Driving home today I was behind a little pick-up truck that had about 15-20 long boards in it, they were probably about 15 feet (around 5 meters) long. Now I respect the man for doing his own handy work, but what I didn't respect was the fact that I had no way to gauge how far out the lumber jutted from his car, no emergency lights, no flashing lights, no little red flag, nothing. Also, the lumber, in the course of driving on a curvy road, had spread and started sticking out the side of the truck so now was it not only dangerous to stop behind him, it was dangerous to try to get in the lane next to him. I was thinking about a way to improve on this when I stumbled upon the idea of christmas trees. Don't ask me how they got in this conversation, I just don't know how my brain works sometimes... You all know when you buy a christmas tree and want to take it home some places offer to put the tree in this little fish netting kind of plastic. Why can't home improvment stores, like Lowes or Home Depot, offer a similar add-on to the people who buy lumber? Just take the lumber and slide it through one end and out pops a lumber sausage, too much lumber to go through at one time - lumber sausage links. How hard is that? Now, here comes the tutu part. I know you were all hanging on my every word waiting for this part. Put a little frilly red linning around the fish netting to warn other drivers of potiental danger. The linning should go on at least 3 sides of the lumber so that if it should shift to one side or the other it would warn the drivers in other lanes, and one for the back for the tailgater in us all. Some how ballet got into this conversation too, but again, my brain is synapsing in odd ways...