Ok I quit, but I’ll be back…. Maybe

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Chi Town Steers, May 3, 2025.

  1. Rugerfan

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    The 3-4 hour tarp jobs are solely on you. Even the worst load shouldn’t much longer than an hour to tarp.
     
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    Good luck getting anybody worth a #### to work for less than $20 an hour and even better luck keeping them if you only want to pay $20
     
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    Yep but I wasn't getting paid so zero dollars an hour, some tarp jobs I did in less than hour sure but some took forever because I was brand new and also the shippers loaded me crazy every time
     
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    Federal minimum wage isn’t $20.
     
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    The shippers will load you how you tell them. I pulled flatbed for 10 years. Square the ends if possible and make sure there aren’t any holes where your tarps overlap. We didn’t get paid for tarping, we simply got $50 per load on top of our mileage pay whether it had to be tarped or not. But we hauled a lot of particle board and plywood so easily 90% of our loads were tarped.
     
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    Even with all the padding I had to use this one didn’t take much over an hour. And I had to use my 8ft lumber tarps because it was too tall for our 4ft drops.

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    God I love those trucks. Awesome tarp job to go with it.
     
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    I think him and snack bar should team! That would be a hilarious thread