Best way to transition from door slammer to open deck

Back in my training days I had a tarped drywall load in the winter months delivering in Iowa, It had snowed the night before unloading so I gave my trainee a push broom and snow shovel to clear the snow off the load. We parked with 6 feet on the right side of the truck and 300 on the drivers side. The kid 1 breaks my push broom by trying to move 6" of snow off the load 2 pushes the snow over the 300' clear side . KIDS.

 

No one expects you to carry a 100lb tarp up a ladder. They will all put them up there with a fork lift. If they won't refuse to tarp it. It's too easy to lose your balance an fall.

 

I've only seen a couple of lumber yards in Oregon that have a tarp machine

 

You should see the kids I trained with some years ago. Three times my size and forces me to look up at them to communicate properly. Whew. I don't know what they are feeding them down here in the South. But man. LOL.

I hope your load did well with that snow.

 

And that's the difference between successful owner operators and failed owner operators that now drive someone elses truck. Where they say it can't be done we say give me a moment to figure out how this can be done.

 

You talking about that smart owner operator with the tarps and straps flapping in the wind. looks to me like he lost money on that load.

The smart owner operator has a Conestoga available to use.

The rate of the freight don't cover the cost of replacement equipment.

 

Snowwy, there's no shame in admitting that you aren't cut out for the open deck side of trucking. No need to attack those who are managing to get it done.

 

Congestogas are very nice.

We had a form of one when dedicated to Baltimore GM hauling auto Astro van glass windshields from a location inside north central kentucky. We did find that type of trailer with it's low ride european wheels and huge amounts of canvas to be a giant sail in winter storms. Alot of my driving that very first winter involved managing where possible the wind loading on that particular trailer.

Fast forward to about 1995. Im up north of Lubbock experiencing a classic Texas wind flow. It's a storm wind that does not quit for hours with black sky to match. Those winds flow along across the highway at 60 plus. Here I am with a Ravens, Ive already put 3 bungees on EACH of the tie down hooks and rings along one side. The other side had a form of rope pernamently knotted for the purpose of rolling the tarp to that side for loading etc.

I found myself tying additional rope at each of the bungees all the way down the wind exposed side that kept trying to get under the entire tarp and caused me to be a freakint 20 foot high monster. I managed to get it under control. Then threw more straps over the top of those stupid tarp in several places. I looked like some sort of a trading bum boat from asia by the time I won the battle against such a wind.

Im not sure if I wanted a congostega versus such a storm flow in Texas. If I was not loaded, I would have gone all the way to clean decks just to get under the wind and keep that rig together. Does that make sense?

 

I'm a month into flatbed work so I have a lot to learn but this comment here is complete ignorance from someone who is apparently clueless...

 

You don't tie the tarp on a conestoga. Your post shows you don't even know what a conestoga is. Google chameleon rolling tarp system for an education.