I'm a flatbedder!

it is usually

 

Going to a job site? NO WAY.

 

Which is why I said usually

 

Hey grave that looks really nice, make sure you take good care of those nice tarps you have there and pad all of your corners and roll them up nice and neatly everytime you use them and your life will be alot easier.

keep posting in this thread with your experience with malone and your load pictures.

 

Looks squared away.


I would second what Logan said about protecting the corners. I used rubber belting strips during my brief flat bedding adventure to keep the edges off the tarps.

 

Rubber belting, felt pads, movers pads, card board, or if your really ambitious and can get your hands on an old worn out tarp and cut it to be about a 2 foot drop and then throw your good 4 footers over top of that old worn out tarp.

 

Welcome to the working side of trucking! The tarp job looks great but those aren't steel tarps. Look like 6' drop lumbers to me. 30-45 mins is average time for strapping and tarping. It seems the smaller loads take longer, but then all I have are 8' drop lumber tarps. You'll find it's not how fast you work but rather how efficient you are. Circling the trailer 5 times is a big time waster.

 

Great job tarping!!! Looks better than some of mine lol But I also dont tarp much lol Im not a tarper...

 

Excellent. That is two tarps right? Looks seamless, of course it could be the angle.

Great securement, that's the way to do it, 2 front, 2 back, spaced in between every 10 feet..you've got 40k securement. Excellent and nice corners and fold on the back too.

One question, I see a little space there at the right corner and what almost looks like a pallet edge. Are these steel tubes on pallets? Asking, cause if they are, they needed to be chained/strapped down to keep them from moving under the load.

 

says the guy with straps over his tarp. You're making a lot of assumptions driver, he's just showing off the tarp job.

Sorry, pet peeve.