The fun gets even better when you're UN-TARPING in a 40 mph wind. You leave a few bungees in place on the up-wind side, and while you're up on top of the load, one of the customer's guys decides to get helpful... He removes the bungees from the up-wind side, you find yourself suddenly in the dark, and when you bounce a couple of times and finally find yourself back in daylight, you realize you've just gotten a MAGIC CARPET RIDE over the top of another trailer parked on your down-wind side. Your free ride has taken you from the top of a 7 foot height, over the top of a 13' 6" object, and down the other side. Just exactly how to guide that magic carpet so that you don't bang your knee and sprain your wrist is also not covered in training.

Can't say that I worried much about just how the tarps were folded and rolled up after that.

But, there seems to be as many ways of folding and rolling tarps as there are drivers doing it. You want them small enough to fit where you have to store them. And, in this weather, they don't like to get small.

 

While we are on the topic of tarping, someone explain to me why it is a bad idea to throw your straps over the tarped load. I do this sometimes intentionally. We pick up pretarped loads with the tarps already on the load, I wouldn't untarp to throw the straps then retarp. Other times, especially when it is a irregular load, the tarp with straps over it secures the load, for example when you don't have V-boards. It also holds down the tarp so you don't have to use as many bungies. On the down side it might take a little longer to throw your straps because you can't see the load for proper placement of the straps.

 

B/c if u strap over ur tarps then the LD isnt as secure as it could be. I do strap under all my tarped LD's but then I'll throw a few 2 incher's over the tarps just so it stays pretty :twisted:

 

How can a load be less secure with the straps over the tarp? All loads would be just as secure, some even more secure.

 

terrylamar

How can a load be less secure with the straps over the tarp? All loads would be just as secure, some even more secure.

all loads, how bout a coil?

 

Assuming it a small coil that is strapped and not chained I still don't see that it matters whether the straps are inside or outside the tarp. If I am missing something, tell me.

 

I don't think it a load securement issue but you are pinching the tarp so any little thing under the tarp can damage it. I liked putting the straps under in the winter because the straps stayed clean and dry and rolled. up nicer. I used to fold the first end in 4 feet or so to make a flap. That way when you rolled out the tarp on a load you didn't have to drag the whole tarp back to cover the back of the load down to the trailer.

 

I don't think it makes any difference on load securement as long as you take time to make sure the straps are in the right place, and don't guess at it just because you can't see. Get up on the load and feel if you have to. As far as a coil goes COIL+STRAPS=FATALITY!!

 

How else are you going to secure small coils on pallets eye to the sky?

 

Small coils on pallets thats alright. I just get the impression he was talking about big coils.