Swift's current tarp pay?

yep its current, and its counts for both.One shot deal

 

$23 to tarp? Are you out of your mind? There charging the customer $100+ for the tarping and only giving you $23? $23 for most likely 4 hours work is less than minimum wage. lmao

 

Yeah, they are 100% serious on that tarp pay. You should see the SMALL chain down pay they have . When I went with Swift to start over a while back I was going to do flatbed again, until they went over tarp pay etc. I layed the materials down on the table at the end of the flatbed training course and said "Nah, ya'll done lost your minds, just make me a door slammer"

 

of course you don't tarp every load I assume, so aside from this and the extra .01cpm, what's the benefit to flatbedding?

 

Longer loads usually allways over a 1000+ shippers and recievers treat you better.
You end up tarping alot of loads, usually takes an hour to two. Not that hard of work.
Swift has the lighter lumber tarps, they only weigh 85lbs a piece.
If your a food blister and out of shape I would not reccomend it.

Less bull crap to put up with.Less scraps than the van fleet. The van division has way more mentors,teams, owner ops who get priority on the loads. If your a company driver you get little runs that eat up a bunch of time.

I would rather do a little extra manual work(which helps maintain your weight) than sit at a dock for hours on end and deal with the rude people at the docks.

Plus you can pull vans also if no freight is available. I did this for two weeks and would just rather sit, with empty pockets than pull a van
not a good experience for me.

 

You get to haul some really unusual stuff to and from some pretty unusual locations.

 

Like schmud said.

The shippers and receivers are usually happy to see you.
Each load is a challenge in and of itself.
You get to re-evaluate how you drive depending on the load on the deck and how its positioned and secured.
Also, when freight slows way down, you can become a door slammer faster than a door slammer can become a flat bedder.

 

Schmud, TB, Mister, thanks for your feedback. Don't think I'm quite a 'food blister' (lol, never heard the term)...but sometimes I think it would just be easier to 'just' drive...however, still weighing the options, and guess I will continue to until it's decision time. Also occurs to me that each load is different...with a van, they're all the same size wise, and I wonder how easy it could be to make a mistake when you don't account for the different loads....everyway I think about it, seems like extra work...and while I'm all about making money, I know there must be days out in the freezing rain (or blistering sun) when you look over at a van and yearn lol. Not to mention you gotta drive a while after working up a nice sweat, which is always real comfortable.

But on the flip side I think how, since you're there, you should try to make as much money as possible, and make yourself as marketable as possible.

thanks for the info, i'll try to tuck it up for some later consumption.