question about flatbed pay+tarp pay

I suppose you can wait until the load that makes you all warm and fuzzy comes along. In the meantime I will find the load that makes me the money I need and keep moving.

If the customers says tarp, and pays accordingly, I don't care if they put it in a lake.

Some customers include all aspects of transportation cost in one rate, and some break it down. Example: Will you tell a customer that is paying 3.00 per mile ( on legal load going 1200 mi) that you wont tarp unless you get a tarp fee? IMHO as long as the money is in there, they can call it whatever they want

You don't want to tarp that is your choice, no bother to me.

 

I was wondering when someone would make this statement. Whenever I put a quote together I do not itemize it unless I'm asked to do so. But I Completely agree. I don't understand the "free labor" statement that snowyyyyyyyy keeps mmaking. I used to think tarping shingles was stupid. And that I wouldn't do it. Needless to say I was in North Carolina and needing to get to Minnesota. Only load available was tarped shingles. Pay was good enough. I took the load but they didn't itemize that I got $50 to tarp. I probably sshould have turned it down

 

One mill we haul out of in northern Ontario has to be tarped every load. Most of the time the OSB sits outside for weeks on end at the customer... I don't enjoy sweating my rear end off to tarp it but I get paid a decent buck to do it and it's free exercise lol

 

Prime pays a minimum of $25, if the shipper pays more prime gives it to you.

 

i noticed you quoted THREE DOLLARS PER MILE. well, isn't that paying you to tarp??????

i'll tarp a load for $3 a mile. cuz that's paying. i WON'T tarp loads at $1.25 per mile. and around these parts. that's the majority of loads to be had. so, if you want the majority of those loads. HAVE AT EM.

 

around here. i've only found 2 companies that paid for tarping, melton and system. have yet to hear ANY of the companies in my state pay for tarping.

around here, most of the loads are wood and hay. and your lucky to find $1.20. and they want it tarped.

you take a tarp job, for an o/o. and collect $50 to tarp and untarp. that's at least 2 hours of work. (depending on the load) that your truck isn't rolling.

and if your hauling a load for $3 per mile such as 2can talks about. well, heck. 2 hours tarping/untarping. or 2 hours rolling down the highway. say 130 miles X $3. my calculator might be broke. but $390 driving 2 hours over $50 tarp fee.

as others have pointed out. your time is money. most loads around here don't pay to haul. let alone tarp.

 

Right now I'm on a streak of ONE!

Yeah, the first no tarp load in a couple of weeks. We get a small fee for the tarps, but it's usually the whole job that I'll look at. If the loader make the front and back squared off it's not to difficult to make the rest work in a fair amount of time. But I can understand with this year being so rough why a lot of drivers would be just fed up with the rags. I know I'm just tired of them too!

 

If you haul or work for someone who hauls oilfield equipment then tarping is not required and the pay is great. We pull Stepdecks. Get er Dun Hands!

 

Another reason to never run for thieves......

Martin

 

What he's not telling you is that on the Prime Flatbed Division you will start out owing them a MINIMUM of $1500 because YOU MUST PAY for ALL YOUR LOAD SECUREMENT EQUIPMENT as a COMPANY DRIVER. Tarp rips, you fix it. Strap tears, you pay for it. Bungee's age you pay for it. How does that tarp pay sound now?