Raise your hand if you think tarping is outdated and stupid and shippers should be weather protecting their own cargo with shrink wrap like boats or air conditioners get wrapped

I did my first tarp today and I screwed it up......that's why I'm here ..👍

Whats sad is that by now in 2020 this back breaking work should be a thing of the past flatbedding is severely behind in technology or advancement. Because tarping is not 100% affective against weather elements. Companies would save thousands wrapping there own shit.

Safety glasses should be worn when using bungee cords. Those hooks will take an eye out when the cord snaps. They can also take a tooth. I had a face shield on my safety helmet. Hot and not comfortable but l like to chew my food.

I wanted to do flatbed at first, but climbing up on top of the load to tarp is what made me decide not to. Going to do tanker now.

Brandnew boots and skinny jeans...i like how prime pulled the new dispatcher to make this video

I guess the hardest part is getting yourself and the tarp up there

20 years ago we hauled tarped lumber out of Dryden, ear falls, blue lake , Winnipeg , delivered all over the Us. We hauled tarped white pine, tarped mahogany from port of Baltimore to Marvin windows in Warroad mn .

Well, I can almost "GUARANTEE" that 90% of the time you WON'T have a NICE, DRY, WIND FREE, TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED warehouse to TARP in for sure!! Great video but, DEFINITELY not very REALISTIC. Just saying now and keep it 💯. 🤨😏👌🏾👍🏾

Shippers should have to protect their own loads

my husband took a picture once when he worked at TMC where he had to tarp banded, composite outdoor decking, that had been shrink wrapped. Made zero sense. and the $40 TMC paid tarp hardly made up for it. or a 2 drop load to 2 different Home Depot locations where the rear section unloaded first....but one final piece was loaded by HD distribution at the very front....so off comes the entire tarp job for that one piece. then re-tarp. Tarping is a primary reason he left flat bedding. TMC = "Tarp My Cargo". Otherwise really enjoyed working for TMC; just to much time messing around with tarps; and on trailer swaps at Lowe's DC...you'd have to leave tarps with the trailer and pick up a preloaded trailer and without fail, pre-loaded trailer had terrible tarps; missing D rings, holes etc. SO that next steel load pickup was a night mare keeping dry.

Very nice i love it but i have a question what you when the load hangs out from the trailer ether sideways or to the back hang

I want to see some tricks on how to tarp up a load like this during 40mph winds. That must really separate the men from the boys.

Going flatbed monday..thanks for the vid..very helpful

I’m assuming there is a very particular way of folding your tarps after use? So that when you use them again, they come undone perfectly.

That's why went Reefer...that way I dont have to worry about tapping a load. Just put load locks in the trailer..and close the doors and put seal on it.....That Frickin simple.😜😁

He made it easy for us to do!

Nice informative video👍🏼

NEVER EVER EVER WALK BACKWARDS ON THE TRAILER OR WORSE THE LOAD

Nice clean work pants and boats, nice and cool environment, what happens when your out in the cold ❄️🥶🥶🥶❄️ and your hand are NUMB from the cold????

Thanks for the video 👍

Just watching this, awesome video! I’m about to get into the step deck with MERCER and I’m trying to get enough experience by watching videos.

Fantastic💪👍

Ud become a greate gift wrapper after a few years of this.

Taping no big deal. At 85 years I turned west Fargo yesterday with a conastoga. Wagon, racks out, tractor bodies and parts back to Grand Rapids MN

I don't think I could handle the winter in flatbed.

Unfortunately I will have to do this working for Western Express. Not looking forward to all this for $25. I might consider team driving just because of this aspect.

tarping in the winter in Wyoming... won't do that without extra pay.

Ok how about this you can't tarp on property so go into the dark where it's snowing or rainy and them tarp are slippery God forbid a gust of wind comes ok so then you managed not to fall off the trailer even when your 10 ft above the trailer ok cool so exactly 13'6 the easy part is coming also with no wind yeah it should look that good great job man. Just how about some real world conditions with ppe and without in elements yah know real world these inside loads are far and few inbetween

Nice music

Great job 👍💪🏼✌️🛣️

You are tarping in a nice climate controlled environment and your tarp looks very clean I'm willing to venture out and say you're not your tarp is going to be filthy ass dirty and your bungees may even become tangled. My last question is how do you get the tarp on top of that load did you do it yourself or was it put up there by a machine. Nice video though

Buy black tarps, soak up sun when it’s 40 below.

that's a lot of work for a little pay

It’s not hard I just hate getting on top of loads

Fuck. Where I work we can’t stand on the truck not even to tarp up. It’s a nightmare

Background music for what?

Great job

I was going for a job as a yard spotter. Then they told me I would be tarping all the loads also. For $21 an hour. No thanks.

does all flatbed freight have to be tarped

Why not spend the extra 1/2 a second and hook the straps properly instead of to the rub rail? Not only does this leave the straps unprotected but it also reduces the working load limit of the strap, which is 5,400 lbs because it’s now hooked to a 2,000 lbs WLL light-duty aluminum rub rail.

Lets do the tarping in the santa anna winds in California. That when i gave up 8 foot tarps when i watched mine rolling across the desert ..

Looks kids spoiler alert no SAFETY harness and SAFETY glasses just imagining one the rubber snubber (break))no more eyes no more CDL. AHHHHH be safe then sorry ( no more driving) you're can't drive with one eye D.O.T Regulation ahhh

No flatbed for me. Not worth it

I don't see any gut straps though

What a huge waste of time. Just use a curtainside trailer if possible.

To much CRAPPY music

7:52 Tarping your load at the fuel pump? 🤦‍♂️

OK I am a flat bed driver 13 years a few things I see wrong your folding the rear flap incorrectly it should be under the sides for aerodynamic they even did a cut jump with it correct but didn't take the screw up out and also you NEVER face the hooks on bungies outward it will rub holes in tarp you always hook them away from the tarp look at the flap job on rear at first this is supposed to be educational COME ON PRIME TEACH THEM CORRECTLY DO BETTER !!!!!!!!