Tarping a tall load

Personally, as I joked in the other message, exercise, but that's serious also. When I started with Swift, we tarped everything, and I went from a size 42 waist down to a 38, probably for the first time in 20 some years when I worked out all the time and danced the night away at the Disco. I had no qualms. What I have a qualm about, is sending me to do a job without equipment the company should have provided. If they didn't give me stuff to pad with, I pity the tarps, because I didn't have on the spot padding provided. THAT's the company's fault and they deserve every ripped up tarp they get, if they did that to a rookie.

I liked one load I got sent on, to pick up some tranformers, big ones. They had little holes that you needed D-Ring Shackles for the chains, that I didn't have, that they didn't issue. I tried everything to get that load, but the chain hooks wouldn't fit on that wide of a metal ear.. hooks couldn't get through, I couldn't get a chain through without the hook on it either because it was too small. Sadly, I was in Florida and ended up wasting a day and getting poverty rocks to get out. Dispatchers that haven't done the job, shouldn't be allowed to dispatch company drivers on loads they don't know what they need.