You certainly should be entitled to more and I'd be happy to pay a driver more for using his own tarps because he reduces my capital outlay and maintenance.
Jumbo makes a good point but that could be dealt with by rolling them out at the yard and inspecting them periodically.
There are a couple of other things to consider also;
1. If you get hurt, my worker's comp rates will go up so there I have a financial risk that needs to be factored into every tarped load IMO. By the way, this "unpaid risk" is the biggest rip off with tarp pay IMO...for both driver and company. The taller the tarp, the more it should pay IMO.
2. Even with your tarps, my equipment is still being tied up, so is a cost there also.
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A fair number of loads are tarped not for protection from the weather but merely as additonal means of securement. Palletized brick loads come to mind, as do shingles. Scrap loads, though rarely on a flatbed, as well, though I'd prefer using a mesh instead of a regular tarp on those. And finally, the biggest reason of all to tarp, because the customer told ya to.
Those places that have outgoing freight requiring tarps but not letting you tarp on their property are ridiculous though. Got one load of plywood in southern VA one time, they had a #### tarping station not 100 yards from where I got loaded but refused to let me use it with a storm bearing down on us. This is back road VA too, lucky I found a tiny truck stop up the main road a bit to stop and get it tarped. And about 30 minutes after I finished here came the rain. I felt bad because there was 2 other flatbeds behind me waiting to get loaded. -
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Loaded up at the copper mine in Bagdad,AZ on Tuesday. Got $200 tarp fee and the mine tells me I can't tarp the load on their property. I have to leave and go down the road...... Guess what, it didn't get tarped and the place I delivered it didn't say a word. They signed "Load Tarped" and off I went
i refuse to tarp if they won't allow me to do it on their property OR if they tell me to tarp outside when I'm loaded inside. I've told them before to just take the #### off my trailer then. Some do, some don't lol -
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That's right. I don't mind the tarped LTL trips.. but if they didn't give you extra for re-tarping, that'd be a sore point for me.
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