Running straps over tarps

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  1. homeskillet

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    Those suspenders will eat right through your shirt in high winds!!!:p
     
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    Not if you put a half turn in em!
     
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    You've got to watch that clear shrink wrap that is wrapped tightly around the load. That stuff will come unwound on you, and you'll look in the mirror and see it dragging behind you a mile long. I'll always duct tape the ends of that wrap, seems to hold pretty good and keep it from coming unwound.
     
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    Think i offended many people here with my statements and i still stand by them. I will humble myself one day when i run into the situation where a strap over tarp is mandatory but i have not yet seen that situation.
     
    D.Tibbitt, Feb 25, 2020
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    im talking about the blue heat shrink wrap not the clear stretch wrap from a roll. It comes in a big roll and gets taped together then shrunk with a torch. E4FA7A78-B93C-47BD-911D-3E18C0606BE3.jpeg
    Back in the day I used to hand wrap probably 100 pallets of stone a week with stretch wrap. The key to keeping it from unwrapping is to tie the ends off. Poke two little holes about two inches apart from each other and tie the tail to the piece in the middle.
     
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    I’ll be joining Cypress Truck Lines in a few weeks. My understanding is that they have tarpers on the payrole at the wallboard shippers. They tell me most of their loads are pre-tarped. Most of the pictures I found online show straps over tarps. I’m sure they have their reasons for doing it that way. I won’t complain.
     
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    Because they drop and hook. Trailers are loaded and tarped, you show up and secure the load and take off. It’s more productive for them to keep you moving. They’re the ones buying the tarps and I’m sure they’ve penciled it out that it’s better this way for their bottom line.
     
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    Eat my flip-flops, 70 foot long fully tarped... In tennis shoes

    sandals are for driving year round/any weather above 70 degrees where I can get away with it. 8 years on flatbad and I've yet to hurt myself because of what I chose to wear, things that shippers make me wear is what causes injuries

    Quit being so judgmental, you're the reason younger drivers (and me at 36) don't run CBS, stop and help, and certainly don't want to talk to you
     

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    Well i dont see 1 strap over that tarp so u completely missed my point
     
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