Tarping a load is one job. Untarping a load is another. Your explanation for tarp pay was for tarping the load. You neglected untarping it in your pay breakdown.
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Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by rank, Jan 29, 2013.
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From the first post in this thread:
Do I have X Ray vision, or was it indeed included in his "breakdown"?
Seemed like a fair way of doing it in my book, especially considering that a different driver may well be untarping the load etc.
As I said though, no way to make everyone happy where tarps are concerned.....
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Freight broker and I had this conversation a couple of days ago. He's been bugging me for a couple of weeks to bid these lanes. It's all step deck stuff, odd shaped machines. So I give him rates and then he tells me it needs to be tarped. I said I am out. We don't tarp much and I told him I have no interest in bidding on multiple loads of tarped freight. But he kept hounding me so I told him $500....the line went dead silent and then he starts to chew me down and tell me he usually pays $50 to $100 for most tarp jobs.
I said tough. Someone is looking for me to send a driver up a ladder with 50 lbs on his shoulder outside in the ice, rain, cold, snow and wind. If they want it dry they can build a crate. In the end, we settled on $200 for this one load and they built a crate plus I got written guarantee that they put the tarps on top with the fork truck and allowed me to tarp inside. And I went there myself with the driver to make sure everything went OK (he watched me tarp it actually).
Looks like my curtainside will work.
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