know when fold'em

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by lowjo, Jan 11, 2012.

  1. Flightline

    Flightline Road Train Member

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    I beleive it has a lot to do with the brokers not giving a better rate for non tarp loads, so the shippers want every load tarp.
    Just like how many carriers pay most of the tarp pay to the company driver.
    I beleive at Mercer they bid tarp and non tarp loads the same.
     
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  3. 07-379Pete

    07-379Pete Crusty Commando-Pete

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    Oh the poor over worked SOB's. :biggrin_2556:
    Yes
     
  4. THEPRIZEFIGHTER

    THEPRIZEFIGHTER Light Load Member

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    I used to get that all the time at Boyd, the best loads I ever got like that was a load of gaurd rail, and a silo. Both items that will spend there entire life outside. But I pretty much had to tarp everything at Boyd.
     
  5. Jfaulk99

    Jfaulk99 Road Train Member

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    Shingles was another one I liked to see tarped. Certainteed in Milan, OH used to require tarps if the load was going over so many miles. Who wants roofing to get wet?

    That's why I love my conestogas, I tarp everything.:biggrin_2559::biggrin_25522:
     
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  6. Oscar the KW

    Oscar the KW Going Tarpless

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    That one erks me also. Tarp a load of shingles so when you deliver them they just set outside untill someone buys them. Then they put them on the roof and still set outside.:biggrin_25526:
     
  7. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    i'd like to know why the brokers should get tarp pay.

    and why the brokers aren't ruled by the govt to stop screwing us.
     
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  8. Jfaulk99

    Jfaulk99 Road Train Member

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    Please tell me your joking!:biggrin_25524:
     
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  9. Oscar the KW

    Oscar the KW Going Tarpless

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    Some of them take tarp pay because they can. If you feel the load doesn't pay enough then don't haul it.

    We need less government in our lives, not more.
     
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  10. KenworthGuyNH

    KenworthGuyNH Road Train Member

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    Couldn't agree more!!!
     
  11. gravelhauler

    gravelhauler Medium Load Member

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    I had a run up to AK in Rockport for about a year. I hauled shrinkwrap up there. What exactly do they do with that up there? I never did get to see what they used it for.
     
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