Quite a few years ago I was at the Mid-America Trucking Show, chatting with an owner-operator about the loads he carried on his flatbed trailer. Some of the loads required tarping, which is a lot of ...

It takes special people to be flatbedders. Tarping, however, is usually not on their list of favorite activities. A single tarpaulin can weigh 65 to 100 pounds or more. It must be half thrown and half ...

Successful tarping is a twist of art and a tug of science. No two loads are tarped the same. “Every load is different, and every load has to be secured differently,” says Rosco Wood, driver for Denis ...

Mercer-leased owner-operator John Rodriguez (pictured, left), with his R&L Tarping Solutions business partner Willie Lancon (right), offered up this neat display on a diamond-plate-capped tabletop in ...

Whether to protect against liability or against product shrinkage, every recycler knows it’s best to be covered. For loads heading over the highway, that means wrapping things up in a tarp and ...

Tarping laws vary by state. Oregon, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, Alabama, Maine, New Jersey and Delaware are the only states without truck tarping requirements. Some ...

INNISFIL, Ont. — No one was hurt, but an Ontario company was fined $30,000 because someone could’ve been, when working on top of a flatbed trailer without a safety harness or other fall protection ...

WORKING with a tarp is awkward, strenuous, and just plain difficult. It's also hazardous. Slips and falls and manual materials handling accidents top the list of tarp-handling exposures that can lead ...

WORKING with a tarp is awkward, strenuous, and just plain difficult. It's also hazardous. Slips and falls and manual materials handling accidents top the list of tarp-handling exposures that can lead ...