New to Flatbed: What commodities "really" need tarping

LumPer has to be tarped - dead or alive

 

I've had to tarp highway guard rails.
Depends on the customer.

 

There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to tarping as stated above. There are loads you will tarp that will just pi$$ you off. Good luck.

 

The last load of guardrails I hauled, I told the shipper I want to weigh the load before I tarp.
He said, "Uh, OK." I already knew the weight was OK because I'd hauled them before. So, I left as if to go to a truck stop and weigh, and just keep going. Those loads were going from upstate New York to Virginia.

 

Lol, sounds like something I would do.

 

Our shop is next door to a major roofing supplier. They get loads of shingles coming in every day, almost always tarped. They then unload them and store them outside, uncovered, because logic.

 

You certainly wouldn't want ROOFING SHINGLES to get wet!

 

After we tarp the lumpers, my vote is we all get a few whacks in with bars of soap wrapped in towels.