Post your flatbed load pictures here

Having a conestoga would have made this so much easier lol

 

Hey NWMAXI, What you doing now?
Have'nt seen you posting for awhile.
You back on the road or still at home?

 

SHC,you don't need extra bungies but old fashioned rope on that load.
In 9 places ,to be precise.
Would take me about 10min.

 

775 miles on this one so far and it hasn't ballooned..............YET. Only 350 miles to go and it will probably fight me the rest of the way. Although I'm surprised it hasn't, there's no way for me to keep the air out where the trailer is stretched and normally I get a lot of it up through that gap and it blows up on me. This time I did things a little different, instead of pulling the back of the second tarp tight on top I actually bungeed the end of it to the cross brace holding it up about a foot and I think it's creating quite a vacuum holding the front two tarps pretty tight. Dumb luck is all I can think because every other time I haul this particular load I get some pretty good balloons from the second and third tarps.

 

i don't use rope....never could tie a knot worth a crap.

The main issue is they added an extra piece to the load, adding about 12' more on the overall length, so my main tarp comes up short and I wound up having to wrap the front instead of pulling it all the way forward to the deck.

You also need to realize that I am OCD about my tarps moving. The "ballooning" I'm complaining about does not really extend past the rub rails. I just hate when a tarp moves AT ALL !!!

 

You should give rubber rope/ bugee rope a try. Cut to lenght.
Works like rope but don't have to deal with knots, just place hooks where you need them and easly moveable hooks.
I just started using rubber rope couple months ago and can't beleive I haven't been using it all these years.
It's especially helpful going across a tarp to take the ballooning effect out.

 

Using a tow truck to make like a crane. Never saw that before.

 

you know what also works good to take ballooning out of tarps ? bungee cords.

sometimes you put three or four together and go over the top, or around the load, tie the tarp to itself... use your imagination. I get the rope thing with choosing your own length, but I can basically do the same by adding and or doubling/folding tarp straps.

 

Been unloaded few times with a wrecker truck, last time in NC IIRC. makes sense really, as those trucks cost an arm and 1.5 legs to buy, so why not utilize it as much as possible?

Martin

 

i was at Interstate running CAT parts out of the new RDC they built in Spokane , the big company policies got in the way of making that what it really could be, then got a job offer Running local deliveres for Peirone Produce and thats what im doing now