For someone who hates ATS so much, you sure do stalk this forum!!! I guess you secretly want to come back. I personally hope you don't!!
Yeah, they like to give away free tarp jobs all too frequently which makes it where you don't get jack to tarp a load that is destroying your tarps. The free tarp jobs are usually things that thrash your tarps or are a pain to tarp.
I have never tarped a load for free. What are you smoking? Most of our legal tarp fees are $100 to $300 and 100% of that goes to the driver. I have had OD tarp loads that paid $600. I have seen offers of $900.
I agree, all I saw was tarp. ATS is not half bad. I had fun with them, particularly when you get to play with world war two tanks on the lowboys. (Under instruction of course with two sets of eyeballs watching your every move and thought process.) I would choose to run for them a different way, probably in the tombstone division. Pick em up and set em down. Those days are over for me. I don't worry about it.