Where do you buy Straps / Chains / Binders?

I would like to know this as well. I mean I know of the J.J. Keller website that has all kinds of products and the Iowa 80 Truck stop in Walcott, IA. Other than these two with the biggest selections that I know of, I have no dang clue.

 

BTW here is that website....Top left corner with the three lines that says menu....click shop....then click products

Safety & Compliance for DOT Transportation, OSHA, HR - J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.

 

I got some straps, chains and binders with my trailer I bought from @blairandgretchen.

I added to the straps when I stopped at Tri-city canvas in granite city, Ill. Added some 2” rachet straps and a few more 4” and a couple boxes of bungees. I think they do a lot of online biz

Joplin Tarp also had some good stuff I bought, pocket winches, edge protectors.

Mytee has a ton of stuff to order online.

I also added to my chains and binders from a guy shutting down his hotshot operation from Facebook marketplace
I probably would not buy certain things on marketplace but when you find some good deals on stuff like chains you can inspect before you buy. Just make sure inspect them and they are proper grade.

 

I mainly use MyteeProducts.com & Tarpstop.com

 

Got my tarps from tarpstop and mytee. Chains/straps and binders were from a local kinedyne distributor. All the other crap I've got has mostly come free, from scavenging thru dumpsters at shippers and stuff other drivers throw away.

 

You've actually found good items in dumpsters? Or half decent things that can be repaired?

 

Well mostly just pieces of carpet or wood blocks or pieces of conveyors, machinery sized pieces of cardboard, moving blankets, Jimmy Hoffa. . Anything good that can be used to protect tarps and straps can be found in dumpsters at shippers/recievers... youd be surprised some of the crap that they throw away.. I definatly don't dumpster dive at truckstops. Might drown from all the piss bottles. But if you walk the back lot can find plenty of mudflaps that have. Been ripped off and discarded. Nothing better than free edge protection !

 

Pinching pennies is always great I don't even want to hear any of that drowning in piss bottles! I had to change the low beam headlight out on my car on the driver's side a few weeks ago and first thing I was pissed about was that you can't change it from the hood without taking apart half the dang car up front, so I had to get to it from underneath. There was barely any room to move around (thank God I'm smaller), but then I didn't realize that I laid kind of close to someone's dumped coffee outside at the truck stop so by the time I was done, I was all dirty, hands all black, and I was all wet and smelled like coffee BUT I can't complain.....it wasn't piss from all those lazy ######## that wasn't to open their doors and whip their buddy out because it's too #### far to walk to the bathroom