Anyone else hate tarping on clear sky days?

What's it roughly take a half hr to tarp?

 

Depends what it is. It CAN be 1/2 hour. It can be 1-2 hours. It can be all day. Not trying to be smart with you at all. Sticks n bricks is the nicest to tarp, a nice big rectangle.

 

Yup big and square is easist.. Johns mansville insulation Fernley nevada.. in & out 45 mins if no trucks in front of me.. loads are stupid light and pay good too.. plus they have a tarping she'd to keep you out the weather.. those things make tarping a better ordeal.. not that it's all that fun but I can get behind customers that make it easier..

 

Sure, on a load that requires a single tarp that you havec the appropriate size tarp for, that requires no edge protection....

Try tarping a load of 23 coils, all bare metal, all very sharp edges, an ugly mixture of suicide and eye to the sky sets, half an hour later you are still trying to get all your edge protection in place, you haven't even looked at your tarps.

 

I bet it really sucks on a windy cold day or you took a shower and need another one after tarping.I have great respect for you guys.Not everyone can do that.I did it for 3 months and hated it.

 

Cold is ok as long as it's not so cold that the tarps are frozen. Windy or rain suck. I won't tarp in the rain. If the piece can spend 30 minutes getting drenched while I secure it then it clearly doesn't matter if it's tarped as all the tarp is doing at that point is trapping the moisture in.

The customer needs to at least provide cover if its raining.

I supposed it helps that most of the stuff I haul tends to be very expensive machined pieces or electric motors so the customer isn't going to put a million dollar piece outside because it would get me out the door an hour sooner.

A lot of times if it's nice when hauling stuff for local customers they will at least let us bring it back to the yard to tarp it in our shop where I can get help.

I'd much rather tarp when its 90 and sunny over 20 and rain/snow mix. While it might be hot in the sun at least I'm dry and I can just jump in the truck for a minute if I'm getting too hot. Hot tarps tend to bend and stretch better over the goofy shaped stuff i end up tarping anyways.

 

I don't mind tarping but I did kinda quit hauling (raised price high!) for a place because it just got annoying using my body (large odd load) only to see it the pieces get set outside...every time...no matter what.

I politely let them (via the broker) know and gave them a price and never heard back

 

I think you are in the wrong line of work if you "hate" to tarp. I take it as a personal challenge to make the tarp job look as nice as possible. I just don't get much practice these days with all the dry bulk and curtain side work I've been doing.

Then, usually out of nowhere, I'm headed to the local steel mill with Super-B's, with a "must tarp" load and no one is around to help and it takes 3-4 hours because of the snow/wind/etc and looks like garbage.

 

I always tell the shipper I need it on the bol as well , and your right, they always let you secure and tarp inside when you put the responsibility of a dry load back on them..2 bad more drvrs won't do this

 

Wait till they install a "tarping station" you must use to tarp with.