Ive tarped super sacks of gravel out of rock quarry in washington. Delivered them to a road construction project about half a mile before the TA in laurel montana. The gravel is currently sitting on the shoulder with road salt, rain, truck grease, you name it . luckily super sacks are about the easiest tarp job you can get.
A kid in this 20s was very green and sitting in Rawlins Wyoming asking when the wind would stop so he could tarp.I explained if the wind ever stopped in Rawlins everyone would fall over.He was slightly confused.
The first time I saw a roll tite close over 3 tiers of lumber squared off, the tarps hit the ground. They can pay those guys whatever they want to haul their ####ty 2x4s Only thing I have left in the yard are machinery tarps and 3 front tarps from the step deck sets I kept to cover the little bit of LTL we do. I don’t want my drivers on top of a load of lumber in the wind performing death defying feats with a 24’x30’ tarp. How do you charge enough to cover the risk in that? I hired a driver not an acrobat.
Used to irritate the #### out of me when you'd get one of those stock market tarp jobs (high, low, high, low) just for the reciever to take it off the trailer and put it on the ground next to 1000 identical pieces that have been out in the weather for years
Y’all doing it all wrong. The only way I tarp Customer loaded,secured and tarrped ,all their equipment and paid me to wait on them to do it.
A steel plant that was a frequent point to load had a very strict policy. Been quite some time since loading there, things may have changed. They had stakes with cables that had to be placed on both sides of the trailer. You did not get up on the trailer before these were in place. Then you could set up the trailer. You had to put all your gear on. Then you go load. Come back to the staging area, tie down and if required tarp. At that point you could take the stakes down. They watched everyone. They would get upset if you even got up on the cat walk. Seen a few get called on it. That place never bothered me.
90% of the place's I haul out of have the harping shed with the machine.The 10% that doesn't means load and go..
I have one shipper requires tarp year round. Receiver requires tarp year round. They unload and set hot oiled metal on the ground outside. No inside storage. You will see coils rust bad, but they still punch parts out of it.
