Flatbed question

While moving blankets and carpet can do the trick, i prefer to cut up sections of old ratty tarps, make em roughly 10x10, so you can fold it in half and have 2+ layers of tarp before your real tarp touches those sharp edges.

The advantage to this over moving blankets and carpet is that you can roll them up and just strap them to the deck, use it to cover the extra 3 feet of say a 27 foot load (meaning you dont have to roll out 2 big tarps, and they never get waterlogged the way other materials do.

Also, the cleaner and tighter your tarp job is, the less damage you will do to the tarp, if its flapping, you're destroying it.

 

Don’t believe I’m I take care of my tarps

 

The problem that I see that's very reoccurring is my carrier tells me. The tarp rate is rolled into the line haul rate. And when I ask what it is????Automaticly I am branded the bad guy. I told them one time send me a message on the computer in truck what it is and I will tarp it. I got some nasty responses. Back. I said few cuss words and told them 2 things dont lie to me and be honest. And I have been with Hornady Transportationfor 1 month leasing with them. All I get back is it in the LHR. To me it could bec$1. For them to pay me to tarp. Why is it such a big mystery??

 

"It is the custom of the flatbed operator to tarp"

This doesnt mean extra tarp pay is normal, it means the opposite.

It also doesnt mean you arent getting your tarp pay, it usually IS built into the rate much the same as fuel is usually built in. If your contract says you get paid x to tarp, they *should* be backing that out and showing it on your settlements, but they dont cause theyre humans and therefore lazy.


At the end of the pay, if it wasnt worth the amou t you hauled for, tarp pay wasnt going to make you happy.

Usually i only see seperate tarp pay for machinery, but fully tarping a 100 foot crane ( 5 tarps, 4 hours, 800$) is a different animal than 20 feet of steel bar (1 tarp, 20 minutes, 50$?)