Tarping sucks!

This thread will get stupid real fast. The whiners usually feast on this kind of talk. We will see.

Not every carrier pays minimum wage as you say to tarp. If someone chooses to work for one of those carriers that is their choice and they can move on if they choose.

I don't get tarp pay per say I just get my normal percentage of whatever extra is tacked on for tarping. Guess what? If you work for a decent company it really doesn't matter.

 

I'll admit to laziness. First week open deck, and I have been looking for the 'no tarp' loads - I have enough to worry about besides that, right now. But I will, eventually, and for the right revenue.

 

If you work for yourself with your own authority some times it's necessary to get a good load out of a bad area. I hate tarping but sometimes the load pays so well you work through it.

 

Some companies pay $50.00 tarp pay. Personally, I never considered tarping a load as work. Sure aggravating at times on a windy day, but still not arduous labor. I've done it in wind, sleet, rain and still didn't mind doing it. I looked at it as wrapping a big Christmas gift and took pride in the finished product.
Tarping isn't for whiners though; sobbing and wailing won't get the job done.

 

To the OP: why do you labor under the perception that "all" of us do it "so cheap"?? Secondly; if you are also under the perception that tarping is hard work.....you have never done any truly hard work. Hope this helps.

 

That question is; Why do you tarp and untarp those loads so cheap?

A ¢0.44 cents per mile company driver has to do what they are told, or get fired and they'll find another driver to do it. Talk about cheap, there is a whole country full of company driver's that will do it cheap.

 

It has never taking me 3 hours to tarp a load but I understand your point, when I was OTR, my company paid $40 for tarp/untarp with addition $10 for extra stops, but I'd rather they keep the money and not trapped the load

 

Agree with what the others have said, working cheap is an industry wide problem, not just the flatbed segment. If it took me 6 hours to tarp a load, I'd probably give up trucking in its entirety and go clean the showers at the Pilot

 

I personally don't find flatbedding that hard as well as tarpping, but I've never been afraid of a little labor work, may take a little longer to get rolling once loaded, van drivers just close doors, but throwing straps or chains ain't that difficult, it amazes me when I hear other driver complain how hard flatbedding is, don't know if it's just laziness or ?