dang dirty tarps

It's just dirt, hasn't killed a man yet.

 

Mostly just practice the more you do it you'll discover little tricks to stay cleaner. I used to like bib overalls because I found them cooler in the summer than coveralls. In cooler weather I favoured shop coats. Also unless I was hauling lumber I tried to roll the tarps up on the trailer or paid attention to the ground where I was rollling up tarps(meaning no mud)

 

Time depends on height, lenght, and what your are tarping down. Everybody is slow tarping at first. Then if your like me, slow after several years.
Some machinery takes longer because of having to put padding under the tarps and corners.
How good your tarping is shows up a few hours down the road. A good tarp job, will not flap, which is better on the tarps.
Now you'll start noticeing good and bad tarp jobs as you drive down the road.

 

Smh....do some push ups...don't carry the tarps up against your body, properly fold your tarps, and learn to move around your load and not crawl all over it...the only problem I had was sweating not getting dirty...and its not a race the longer you do it the more efficient you will be...visualize how you want the tarp job to look...lay out your equipment and follow steps in your mind...time and pratice is all you need

 

Tarping is not hard but it is dirty. That is flatbed work and keeps most of the overweight drivers out of this field. Untarping sucks and is usually when I get dirty or put my coveralls on.

 

Get a large sleeper with a shower, then after tarping you can take a shower before rolling down the road.
That's what I do. Though I still don't like to tarp.

I think it also helps to fold up your tarps on the trailer when possible.

 

Same here, but sometimes, no matter what I do, that stupid thing flaps in the wind taunting me