Straps, Inside or Outside the tarp?

Unless you like to buy tarps a lot (company drivers don't worry obviously), straps should be inside. Obviously there will be loads that need TARP securement via straps due to severe height drops or odd overlap points.

I had an awful load of machinery not too long ago that had as many 2" straps on the outside holding the tarps down as it had 4" and chains holding the equipment down. A truly awful load to haul from Seattle to Green Bay.

When my tarps are nearing the end of their useful life, and some of the D-rings have broken off, over the tarps become a requirement.

Oh yeah, MMM, super sacks suck! I hauled them exclusively for a couple months a few years back and under or over, never a way to keep the straps tight.

 

Highjacked the hubbies laptop when I was doing deck work I found it was best to go under the tarps with the load securement straps and then put a strap at the front ,middle and back on top of the tarps. Not any special reason just found less air getting under if I lost a few bungiees. Tarps are way too expensive to do all your straps on top, and patching a tarp on your reset just isnt much fun.

 

There is but you have to drive for two full days before they settle enough to stay. If you're not going that far you're stuck tightening them every couple hours the whole way.

 

Most of my loads weren't even a couple hours long when I was hauling them. I rarely needed my winch bar to take off the straps 50 miles away hauling iron oxide.

 

Yeah it is about two days before they settle enough. It does seem that straps over the tarp helps (on a super sack load) or if anything is just easier when you crank the straps another notch or two. On drywall, it is pretarped a lot of times and I like straps on the outside. I used to haul a lot of this and steel. On the drywall I also put a twist on the strap on each side to keep it from slapping the drywall and breaking it.

 

Yup. At least they don't move around on you.

Same here. I usually use more straps, or all the straps, and don't tighten them down as tight when they're over the tarp. I prefer to have the main load bearing straps under the tarp so I can get them tight with the ones over the tarp looser by a notch or two so they won't chew through it.

 

One good thing about going under the tarp is when its messy out the straps stay clean and dry.

 

Unless they get dropped in the mud

 

You mean UNTIL they get dropped in the mud lol