tarp pay

I want his tarps!

 

I'd say $40 to tarp AND untarp is quite fair. Last company I worked for paid 30$ each, or $60 if you did both obviously. Melton, while they pay $40, is only for tarping. They don't pay untarp, iirc. Most companies pay it this way. Now, additional CPM for tarped loads is ridiculous to me. I looked at BTC, and they pay what, like .01 cpm more for tarped loads? So on a short, say 200 mile, load you get $2 for tarping and untarping? F that. Sure if it's a longer load it works out better, but to get $40 for tarping the load has to be 4000 miles at that rate. I know BTC is getting alot more for tarping their loads then that.

 

Man, you all are pretty generous indeed. We usually just get twenty to tarp and nothing to un-tarp. If the customer pays more then the driver receives that amount, and some of the odd loads do pay decent at times. The places that save any tarp pay by having a crew do the work are the real painful loads. Sometimes it takes longer to rework it than if I'd have done it for free, the minimum wage guys just push it out half-axx finished. Now that could be a major thread on here!

 

Melton pays for both, 20 to tarp, 20 to untarp

 

i'm on my 3rd company. i have yet to get paid for tarping.

i've got my 2 years in now. i'm looking for other opportunities. i have absolutely no intentions of flatbedding next winter.

a driver makes more money driving down the road then he does tarping and untarping. 1 1/2 hours to tarp roughly. that equates to about $30 for the job. plus another $30 to untarp. so anything less then $60 is a joke when driving pays better.

that's just a basic example and roughly about the amount of time it takes for a basic load.

carrying the tarp up a ladder. they don't have forklifts. i can see a driver falling REAL easy packing a tarp up the ladder.

 

Ya flatbedding is not for everyone some guys just aren't cut out for it.

 

I would just flat-rate the drivers pay. $50 for a tarp load, no matter the size. They complain about it, then they can go work for MANY other companies that DON'T give the drivers tarp pay.

 

Yep, then go drag a box around. That's the only way to get around NOT tarping freight, but instead of tarping for free, you will be sitting at shippers and recivers for many, many hours and not get paid for it. Usually longer than it takes to tarp a load.