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I pulled a step the last few years down there pretty much exclusively, and the only tarp I carried was a smoke tarp and one small 20 ft 4 foot drop tarp, kept hidden in the box. I only remember having them unload one load, because they wanted a tarp and I had excepted a no tarp load.
Your area may differ, but I ran all over and Alaska too, did not hurt myself any not carrying tarps.

 

I only have a month of self dispatch under my belt so take this with a grain of salt. In that time i never once felt that the heaviest load paid the best. My most profitable were the lightest actually, and those were tarped. Ive hauled lots of stone, lumber, brick and block because that was the easy stuff my former boss loves. Well its breaking below $2 a mile here now. Heavy has left me flat broke and him looking for another gullible driver.

I need to make a living, no matter how many tarp jobs that takes. New gig is 100% self dispatch so ill be calling on a lot of garbage, looking for brokers with loads requiring gear and competence, and willing to pay for it.

 

Fwiw, i was scared of taring heavy in the beginning. I spent a few hours chatting with a melton driver one day with his gear all sprawled out yard sale style from a truck swap but i thought he was broke down and went to see if i could help. He had a 53ft steel spread and mountains of gear, tared at like 35k. I tared 5k lighter and his paycheck was twice the size of mine.

Same situation was another old hand looking for some tools in his boxes at a T/A.. Landstar guy with a gorgeous mega sleeper and a steel step. Crazy high tare, still made a great living. We talked for hours, don baker. Great guy.

Anyhow i made up my mind to carry what i need to do the job right every time. I will make my reputation on completed BOLs of hard to replace items, not 49k piles of lumber at subsidy rates. Someone else can beg for that trash.

 

Load from Augusta?

 

I agree with you. My tare isn't real heavy but I'm not worried about it either. I carry what I want and just haul what I can.

 

Yep.

 

Western Express displaying a phenominal tarp job. This guy actually hooed to that preloaded trailer and after 30min of strapping and bungeeing, thats how he's fixin to roll.

 

You get what pay for.

 

Its beautiful ! Isn't it ?

 

Ive seen worse.