How to dry tarps

Please post a video of you wiping the tarp down with rain-x... mercy.... I wish some folks on here would just stay in their lane. OMG

 

Black tarps laid out dry in the sun above freezing pretty quickly- they’ll likely be dirty pretty bad but they’ll be dry.
Significant temp & humidity change while rolled up will get streaks of wetness in the folds, not enough to be wet but certainly enough to be damp inside.

 

Always told the customer “Tarps are not waterproof”. “Tarps do not guarantee the product does not get exposed to moisture”.

 

If you don’t want to wait for them to air dry, then a leaf blower would speed the process up some.

 

Dang man. What are you hauling from those shippers that you wrap them up with plastic?

We have a couple customers that provide plastic for metal sheet/bar/tubing loads

 

Only suggestion I have is to use tarp straps to hang it off the edge of a flatbed - at the truck stop after you're done, weather co-operating.

Which just sounds like doing a job twice to me.

 

I never worried about it and I ran exclusively in the Northwest and some Western Canada. Stuff like particle board and MDF the mills provided plastic and required no matter if it was winter or middle of summer.

The only thing I would do was if the ground was muddy or super wet or if there was a bunch of snow I’d fold the tarps up on top of the load. It was a pain to do but it kept the inside of the tarps dry.