Flatbed equipment choices....

I thought maybe you guys hauled machines that needed to be tarped. I had a chance one time to haul a big lathe machine out to California and it paid well but they wanted it tarped so I had then email me pics of it and their was no way you were going to have a tarp left when you got it out their. I turned it down because I really didn't want mess with it and California so another driver jumped on it and when he delivered he just threw his tarps in the dumpster.

 

I would say he did not know what he was doing if he killed his tarps.

 

The hooks on a bungie look like a S. On the part of the hook that goes thru the bungie is the part you will want to crimp.

I'll try to get a pic tomorrow but if I don't, you will understand what I mean as soon as you try to use them.

 

It will also keep the hook from coming separated from the bungee, if that helps

 

We sometimes haul stuff like that, milling machines, CNCs, ect. We have a couple tarps designated "machinery tarps" for just such stuff so you don't tear up good tarps. Since we hardly ever use full lumber tarps we now use them to haul stuff like that. Usually you have to turn them sideways so you have enough to cover the unit that might be 9-10' tall.

 

Rob

Sounds like you got everything figured out with my Pops. Let me know when you're going to swing through the shop, I'd like to meet you. I'll be in Crystal Lake, IL and Portage tomorrow afternoon, I'll be driving a teal Pete 386, yell at me if you're in the area.

Also, I've got a securement guide that I made that is specific to all the loads we haul regularly, we'll be sure to get you one of those. It covers machinery hauling, plate steel, coils, tarping, ect.

Did you get chains, binders, and everything through us or just the tarps?

 

Throw your tarps on real quick at the shipper.

Stop down the block and remove tarps.

A few blocks from the consignee toss tarp over load.

Deliver load with unripped tarp!

Worth the price of a tarp to me.

 

SHC you just might have to transfer your rolled up tarps from one trailer to another when you switch trailers. Not the worst thing in the world. Except when it's pouring rain.

Or lose the front bumper and weld a tray like they have in Texas on their hunting vehicles.