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Lol nope I'll be in Ohio . so I'm pricing coil tarps called a place north of Louisville they want $300. guess I'll order it online

 

You hate tarring coils with steel tarps that much? Heck you hual that many coils? Man I hate coils, they are heavy.

 

Sorry for jumping in.....kind of. I thought this guy seemed pretty competent and it is the best I have seen it explained. I hope I'm not insulting anybody's intelligence, just trying to help.

 

My tarp job on coils look bad cuz so much extra lol. so far this weekend I have 3 coil loads nice little circle

 

I don't care if it looks bad. If it doesn't destroy the tarp and the coil stays dry, who cares.

I'm thinking about putting a generator on to power my little space heater.

 

I never minded how it looked either. I did use 2 2" straps to keep it snug. Everything else I just folded under. If you hual coils enough then I can see blowing $300. I guess that's cheaper than $15k so that every tarp job looks perfect. LOL

 

Accident outside on main road Jamestown Ohio can see if from the flying J and it's making it smell like dirty ### in this parking lot...

 

So today i found out that we are all cheap freight haulers. Like real cheap. Cheaper than cheap. My best paying loads would be scoffed at and laughed about in comparison.

I was at a job site for that engineering firm i pull for where a new hotel is being built at this country club. The oldest golf course in Florida. Some other specialized outfit was prepping their load to move it.

I did a little google research while waiting around for the engineers to do their test. And found an article from the tampa st pete newspaper stating what that other outfit is getting paid. 1.3 million dollars. To go 850 feet. Holy smokes. Let's see, 850 divided by 5280 is .16 so carry the one divide by pi blah blah cones out to 8 million 250 thousand per mile. That's some good freight.

Oh, for those curious it was the old biltmore hotel. Estimated weight of half a million tons. 150ish some years old. They had the trailer in place under it. Wish i had seen them jack it up. Have seen normal houses moved before but this thing is freaking huge. Was really really cool to check out.

Edit: half a million Tons. Not pounds.

 

Yeah, but after they pay for the permits, escorts, etc (what a waste that is for 850 feet) it's only about $7.5million/mile. I made that before breakfast. The LS guy next to me said he doesn't even get out of bed for less than $10mil.

 

Pete, it isn't your transmission that caught on fire?