Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

It does get tarped if it doesn’t have the paper on it. That’s the purpose of the paper, so it stays clean and dry. Same as the load of lumber I posted a pic of.

And if you load at the mill in Slave Lake it’s mandatory tarp whether it has bags or not, but 90% of the time we load at a reload yard so it’s our choice.

 

And it’s up to the mill and the customers as to what gets tarped. The “US” doesn’t demand it. If I pick up a paper wrapped load of any kind and it’s dispatched as full tarp, as long as the roads aren’t total slop in the winter, I’ll call the customer and ask them if they want the paper clean or just make sure it stays on the units. Most times as long as you keep the paper on they’re fine with not tarping.

 

A lumber yard we deal with in Oak Bluff tells us it's mandatory for OSB to be tarped when it's coming to the US from Canada. They don't cite a regulation, I think builders just don't want soggy boards.

 

If it were a regulation you wouldn’t see any being shipped on open flat rail cars, only in box cars. And it takes way more moisture than you’d ever get running down the road to end up with soggy boards. There’s a reason the outside edges are painted and the tops of the sheets are waxie.

 

I tie directly to the axles to take the suspension bounce out of it.

 

That's kinda what I thought.

 

Ladies and gentlemen! I present to you an ugly load of concrete reinforcement wire.
Figured since its been some time since one of these was posted, I'd help out.

 

There’s a place close to here that loads tons of stuff like that. Looks like it ties down and rides easy enough.

 

This #### can be sketchy as hell. I loaded out next to a tmc driver about 2 years ago, him and i secured the exact same way, going to the same place, he had more hours and kept going after I pulled off, cone to find out when I got to my delivery site his load come off because his belly straps didn't hold.

 

Does OK without corner protection? Looks scary where those straps go over.