know when fold'em

Well the term "keep dry" is WAY too hard to understand for most truck drivers so most places require tarps. A steel mill here used to not require tarps if it wasn't raining but too many steering wheel holders let the coils get wet and ruined, Now they require all loads to be tarped unless otherwise noted. Don't blame the shipper, blame your fellow drivers. As far as the broker, if he does in fact get $200 extra which I don't believe I don't blame him one bit, you would do the same thing. If the customer really cared he could contact the shipper and request the load not be tarped. I got one mill to stop wrapping coils after I took pictures of the signs requiring them to be unwrapped before they would receive them and of the dumpster full of paper.

 

It wasnt AK, I took 2 there back in Nov and added more plastic and paper to the dumpster.

 

I got Zanesville to stop doing it for a while. They were also supposed to stop doing it for Precision loads but I haven't been there for a long time so they tend to forget the policy. They claimed wrapping coils was why they were always behind loading trucks. So I sent the pics to a friend in West Chester and they thought it was equally as stupid so they had them stop, for a while anyway.
It's good to have friends!

 

West Chester must have forgot to send that memo to Rockport.

 

Oh if they're sending them through the CoilMaster they will still wrap them. It's the ones that they were wrapping with paper by hand that they were supposed to stop. It was taking some of those hard working union guys over an hour to wrap 3 coils.

 

i've had a couple of loads that the brokers wanted tarped. but the shipper said it's up to me. i don't get paid for tarping as a company b e o t c h.

 

Rockport, In?

 

We owned a lumberyard for 20+ years and whenever we ordered OSB board from Georgia Pacific in Mount Hope WV we told them not to have the truck tarp it. However every load that showed up was always tarped and the driver said the mill required it to leave. So we sent our own truck down to get a load and refused to tarp it. It got into a heated argument between the driver and the guard, driver won since he had the BOL in hand and drove out loaded. The term "customer pick up" was too difficult to comprehend for a mall cop security guard.

From that point on we told the GP salesman if any truck arrived tarped it wouldn't be unloaded. Only way we could get them to stop making drivers tarp stuff that didn't need it

 

About once a month we pick up a crate 40' long, 1' wide and 1' tall in Chicago to come back to Wisconsin with. It says on the bills "Must be tarped" even though the reciever asks us everytime "Why did you guys tarp this?"