I'm too short to put the tarp on the flatbed

That is great attitude to have in this industry. Hope your new gig works out well for you

 

@Little trucker gal I'll just add to what others have said, as an 11-year skateboard vet: where there's a will, there's a way! (So long as it's a safe way, lol.)

Keep up the can-do attitude, keep the shiny side up, and hammer down!

 

You should revise that to "I wouldn't be a flatbed truck driver."
Your job is a lot harder than mine as a dry van driver.

You have the spirit, I'll give you that. You go girl, wouldn't want to cross you, and all the other sayings that simply mean... you are formidable.

 

120# tarp, I don’t think I could lift it.

 

I don’t ever remember tarps being that heavy.
120 pound tarp I don’t think I could lift that.
I’m 6’ 2”, 70 yrs old . Not a chance , I’d quit
And then I’d have to lift it up over the freight, not a chance.

 

Yeah, it's ridiculous how tarps are heavy these days, my tarp is about 115lbs, 120lbs when wet and frozen, it's crazyyy...

 

Happy that you were able to do it!! But do you love Flatbed? Especially flatbeding in the winter is brutal... I'm looking to get out of that stuff and you just got a new Flatbed job, you're stronger than me, I'm going to Tanker, F that, I won't be missing my fingers getting numb while trying to roll a frozen tarp LMAO!!!

 

I ran flatbed for about three years when I was a kid. I don’t remember being that heavy. I think there were 20’ -30’ section tarps, though. I don’t remember man it’s too long ago. My memory is very very short now ha ha ha.

 

Deadlifts, cleans and overhead presses.

If no else mentioned it, if you air suspension, evacuate all the air from the system.

 

I never I worried about them souring. If we couldn’t tarp it, we didn’t haul it.