Tarping

I generally get $75.00 to $150.00-200.00 as a O/O leased onto a company.

 

Wow...Guess I should be glad I have never thrown tarps as a company hand. My minimum is $150. If I have to get out more than one section it's $250 or $300.

I've gotten as much as $850 but that one was complicated and required lots of padding. Took 7 hours.

 

I'm company, so I don't see many load confirmations, but I've seen some. I've seen tarp pay listed at 50 bucks, and I've seen tarp loads that don't list tarp pay. It doesn't always need to be a line item.

You get paid for a pickup, a drop, a tarp pay, and mileage. The company might not bill that way. They are generally going to simply negotiate a set price for everything. On the other hand, they may have contacts that do specify mileage pay for a regular customer that ships to a number of different places. Those negotiations can take place in many different ways.

Many o/os work primarily for brokers, so the broker pays everything. With direct customers generally the receiver buys product from the shipper, and the price includes shipping, so the truck is paid by the shipper.

 

Nothing at all. Just your pain, blood, sweat and tears. Getting paid something out of it is a true miracle.

 

I don't pay attention to the tarp pay too much because in my view it's irrelevant. If a load pays $4/mile on 1000 miles but refuses to pay me to tarp it or only pays $20, I'm not going to turn the load down over tarp pay. Conversely, if the load pays $500 to tarp it, but only pays $1.10/mile on those same 1000 miles, they can keep their load. In other words, as an o/o you have to look at the overall pay for any given load, the itemized things don't really matter much except to the customer's bookkeeper. That being said.... I've been paid as low as $30 and as high as $700 to tarp... the average landing somewhere in the $75-$150 range.

 

I'm leased to Landstar

 

Everything is negotiable...unless it's spelled out by contract.

I always try to get more money. Many times even if an agent advertises a load paying $100 for tarping I can get them to double it just for asking.

But as others have said it's all about the big picture...as long as the load pays right overall there's no sense getting hung up on details.