An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

I have a question for my fellow open deck drivers....would you tarp this piece? Or just secure the shrinkwrap?

 

It's a 3rd party warehouse for Boeing, so they would only say that it came in on a conestoga and don't know if it needs tarped or not and neither the B/L or the load info says must be tarped. (It's going to McConnell AFB so it's some sort of lift for airplane equipment)...it has a pintle ring pull bar on the one end, so it must be pulled by a flight line tractor of some sort. I called my dispatcher, he didn't know, so he is messaging the person who set this load up...and they may need to call Boeing on this.

I don't see anything electrical or hydraulic on it...has a hand crank at the end connected to a transmission at each post via a driveshaft and those transmissions have a geared shaft going up the posts that lift a sling

 

After almost 2 hours of waiting, I messaged my dispatcher...he apologized for not getting back to me, he is covering his board and someone elses as well. He said with Boeing, always tarp...so I had to then start tarping. I decided to take my center tarp off the front deck's pallets and use it since it's lighter than an end tarp...but, after I got it up on top of the #### thing, it was short...but, I improvised and wrapped it like a Christmas present...once I got done, it was then rush hour in Phoenix...but it's done and doesn't look any worse than some of the tarps I see on a certain mega's flatbed loads (Western Express), so I guess I'm not -that- bad at tarping.

 

For some reason I was thinking that McConnell AFB was in Topeka (it's on Topeka St, I misread it because of the way SPD's Peoplenet displays stuff). So I got a 2 Wichita stops, a Park City and then St. Louis, which will make it easier to get unloaded earlier than I originally planned.

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Almost looks like a professional did it. Mrs. Snackbar said if this trucking gig doesn't work out I could wrap gifts for a living.