No tarp flatbed

My statement is a generalization. Kinda like cars have rubber tires. But somewhere out there, someone is running around with wooden wheels on theirs.

 

Tarping ranges from "not so bad" to "what did I get myself into?"

I find I'm never satisfied with my tarp job but I'd never get any miles in if it was.

No tarp flatbed = no fun flatbed! Maybe I haven't tarped enough?!

103 by Peelsession posted Sep 21, 2016 at 10:28 PM

102 by Peelsession posted Sep 21, 2016 at 10:27 PM

101 by Peelsession posted Sep 21, 2016 at 10:26 PM

 

I never mind tarping that much. Now trying to roll them up in KS or TX wind is a different story...

 

I didn't real all of this but I have learned one thing about tarping.....ask detailed questions about dimensions so that when you catch a broker playing dumb or fibbing....you can call them when arriving to load....and say yea that will be another 200 bucks dick! And them be prepared to leave.

I mean I enjoy tarping but if you send me out to tarp a 4'h x 10' long load and it is 6 or 8' tall and 20' long.....you will pay one way or the other!

 

Those tall skinny loads that require tarps suck! And brokers will lie lie lie about dimensions and they play dumb.

I ask a lot of questions now and save the emails....tarping those ^^ from now on, for me anyways, is going to be an additional 200 period.

 

I have gotten that a few times along with wow you get $x.xx per mile!?

I just say hey I am not the right set up for everyone thanks for trying me though and have a nice day!

 

If I get pulled over for a DOT inspection and they find my helper bunged down under the tarp, does my DAC get dinged..........I can't find anything in the reg's.

 

He can have it.

I'l be honest,.. unless its really simple,.. I dont like tarping. I have tarped some large ridiculous loads. Cant say that I enjoyed it.

When I call on a load to find out what it is and whats involved. I always add $200 for tarping to what ever my base rate would be for the mileage.

If they dont want to pay then I treat it like anything else thats too cheap to haul.

Rates are what they are because people are hauling it for that rate. I'm still around because I have learned what I need in order to keep my head above water.

Probably why I dont tarp much anymore. A coil here and there,.. thats been it.

Hurst

 

I might just throw my tarps back on the shelf in the shed, that way I won't do something crazy and book a load that needs them.

I spend entirely too much time cussing when I take a tarp load. And it always seems I tarp when it's hotter than hell out too.