Need advice! Steel load sitting over weekend.

That last post before me , sounds like a #### good idea , good thought bud , that's one to try !!


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Does the load say anywhere on the BOL or on the load contract "Do not hold load on truck over weekend/holiday"? There are a few places I haul coils to that specifically put this in writing on the load award contract. Mostly on exposed automotive steel, however I've never had anyone check the dates on the bills to make sure.

 

I've sat with steel loads over the weekend with rain a bunch of times and never had a problem with rust. As long as your tarp job is good and you don't have any holes there really shouldn't be a problem with rust.

 

With eye to the sky coils I place a 4 x 4 on top to make a tent so the water will run off and not collect on the top when parked.

 

Do Not pull your tarps monday until the receiver sees that you had them covered and verifies this, we use to yank tarps before anyone showed up monday to be all ready to go but this is one you don't want to do it this time. Its on them anyway you were there to unload, they turned you away their call.
J-J

 

Good, now that I know it worked I'll use it myself should I ever find myself trapped under a steel load over a weekend. As I said, its not a situation I ever had to deal with. I got the idea from a guy who collects classic cars, originally. If he had to store a car outside for any length of time, he would use two covers with space between them to keep condensation from forming against the body of the car. I never thought of the fan, though. That's a great addition, keeping the open space between the tarps dry.

Glad it worked out.

 

Sounds like a AK/PLS load.

So I take it you never hauled coils form the cold north to the warm south before?
After all the extra work you went thru just for a load of galvanized steel you'll loose your mind when you get down south and untarp and water is running off the coils and you never ran thru the first drop of rain.

 

I pulled about a thousand loads of steel. Had to tarp rusty steel before I could leave the yard. If you have it properly tarped it's not your responsibility if it corrodes. Watch out WCR, you'll spook him when he haul from Bessimer Al to Chi and it's -12 and the load is coverd with frost. OH! Wait til you tarp in freezing rain.

 

BTW?Those are standing coils of Aluminum from ALCOA in Spokane going to Kaiser in CHI on my trailer.