Load Securement Time

First and foremost, this is your assigned truck. Like any tradesmen, this is the tools you use to do your work. Doing the work makes you money. Take care of your tools. They will take care of you.

From some of your postings, your trainer did you no good service. Looks like he gave you his bad habits and slack ways of doing things.

Before even getting to worried about your load times, you need to worry more about your equipment. Worn, bad, crappy equipment will not help you, but actually slow you down and make doing the job harder.

I understand the want to get out on your own, get going and do the work, make some money.

Your going to need to take some time and inventory the truck. All the equipment, everything. Is it good, marginal, or unacceptable. Get the equipment replaced and get rid of the garbage.

Then we can start working on systems that will help you get better.

 

They look like this. Small clips that you pinch on a tarp wherever you need a D ring/ O ring.

 

How well do those work?

 

OP, everyone here will agree that tarping shingles is dumb, but if co policy is to tarp them, then do it like this to save yourself some hassle.

 

Also another trick is to get yourself a mesh/grass tarp and use it for loads like shingles or anything else that's plastic wrapped and protected from the elements

 

Get it done right, now matter how long it takes you. If not secured correctly, what you are hauling can kill someone or kill you. The more you do it the more efficient you will become

 

Well i gonna have to disagree with ya here. There is alot of legal dims load on a flatbed that could take very long if ya got alot of sharp corners or odd angles, etc..i am usually the slowest and last one to finish tarping.

 

Or u could take an extra 30 mins and do it right....




Straps over tarps especially on a square load of palletized prodcut ..... why ?

Sloppy

 

They work well. On his tarp with the missing D Ring string, pinch the tarp with the clip and tighten it, then hook your bungee through the O ring on the end of the clip.

I bought them at a truck stop, they come 4 to a pack. I bought 3 packs. I have a small tarp that shredded one end of the grommets strip. Tarp was good except for that one end. I left the clips on the tarp when I folded it up. It held up to the wind without coming loose, so they did the job I needed them to do.