Im looking for tips on dealing with tarps

Cardboard is more of a single use thing, I don't carry any. Places that have things like thinner steel sheets usually will have large pieces of scrap cardboard that you can get from them if you ask, then you just throw them off where you deliver.

 

One day about 5 weeks ago I had a great paying load out of prattville AL to the Nissan plant in Canton MS. square bundles of thin metal with sharp edges & no I was not told this was the type of load I was getting. I used every piece of protection I had & had to cut up several into smaller pieces. towards the end, I thought I was going to have to use my socks & shoes for the last corners.

 

You can also cheat and throw 4x4's or whatever other wood on the load. That will hold your tarps up and away from all the edges. And I mean put them up sideways like they you do underneath and hang your tarps off them.

 

Used rubber mud flaps work too.....
Scrap 4" or 5" PVC duct split longitudinally works on beams......
I saw a driver who used scrap fire hose as edge protectors......

 

Also....Carry a roll or two of gorilla tape.....Or have extra bungees to secure the edge protectors.....

 

Cheap diapers work as well. Tape them to the ld.
I have done that with machinery.

 

Well, it's seems we now know the origin of the phrase, "it was a sh###¥ load."

 

I've just been using some old discarded 4" straps. I cut them into sections and just run them along the edge of the sharp area. I have 3 that are just long enough to feed thru the winchs and up across the edge of my loads of plate steel. Keeps the tarp from getting cut and the straps are free (once you start getting cuts in the good ones, just hang onto them, plus I got 3 straps from a driver who was going to throw his away)

 

always try to put them in your box,nothin worse than tarping with a nasty dirty tarp

 

frozen tarpgood luck