Tarping VS curtain side flat.

Stay with a Van! Tarping is a part of the flatbedding job description.

Plenty of info here about flatbedding.... Go to reading!! You might as well begin reading the link directly below.


http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ce/114745-so-you-wanna-be-a-skateboarder.html

 

I would like to see a guy with a curtainside or a conestoga tarp a 12' wide load!

 

I'm saying a empty curtain side would be simiular to a sailboat with a 50mph crosswind on a slick surface and I have never hooked one in my life.

 

You will have some limitations obviously like wide loads. But they are great for machinery loads, steel, and wood. I don't personally own any (hard to load over dimension steel joist in one) from one of my main customers. Couple of friends have some and love them though.

 

To me a curtainside is just a van that you can occasionally load from the side...You can't overhang the front so 60' rebar is out of the question.
Most of the loads I've been getting that are above $3.00 a mile are long or wide and you're not doing either with a curtainside.

I have a friend that pulls one and loves it but even HE will tell you that he ain't a flatbedder!

 

BS! Tarping is for the guys too cheap to buy the slider.

Same freight but without the dirt and sweat!

Certain brands can be ran open.

Let's see, I can hand tarp every day in the heat, cold, rain, wind for the rare occasion I can get a decent paying over sized load and deal with that headache. Or I can roll the curtain and never break a sweat......Gee gonna have to think about that for a second.

This one for sale on Truckpaper says the side can be extended to loading up to 108" inside. No idea how that works because I have on with that same brand of tarp but I guess anything is possible.