Tarp Rebar...? Why

Ding ding ding. We have a winner here. Yet, I have never had to tarp rebar yet. Just round bar.

I hauled a load of blasted round bar w/o tarping it. After theyoaded it they asked me if I,was going to tarp it. I said no and the got a little animated. 0% chance of precip for the next 18 hours and I,will be unloaded in less than 3. The made write it down and sign it in case a claim came back. It was blasted round bar. It gets set and it will quickly start to rust. After I left, I started contemplating the possibility of going under an bridge that is being pressure washed or by a business that is sprinkling its lawn. Just a little paranoia set it for a bit.

 

the question should be phrased "are YOU paying to tarp this load, and how much"

rebar(and any steel) may be tarped to protect it from salt in winter road conditions

 

Thank you for an intelligent answer

 

Wow. This is an old thread. Answer is road salt and grime are not the same as sitting in a mud hole. Easier not to have chemical reactions when placed in concrete when you don't have random chemicals all over it.

 

Because that’s what the customer is paying for. I have tarped pretty much everything before by this point, so I have pictures of just about any type of freight that can be tarped in its tarped state. I always call the customer at both ends and if they say it doesn’t matter, I don’t tarp it and then I send the broker a picture of a tarped load and head on down the road. I have also had the consignee say to tarp it, but then tell me they had overnight parking and I have literally pulled into their lot and unstrapped my tarps and put them on the ground next to the trailer and then had the forklift jockey put them back on my trailer like I had just untarped the snow covered load. I don’t know man they loaded it in the snow.