Any company selling heavy-duty truck tarps should carry both steel and lumber tarps of various sizes. What you might not know is that the tarps are different in size and purpose. Each brings with it a certain versatility and suitability for hauling certain types of commodities. Suffice it to say, not all tarps are created […]
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What to Look for When You are Buying a Lumber Tarp?
Truckers know how important it is to protect the load, even if the load is a lumber only load. So, choosing the right product for the right load is essential. When buying your lumber tarp, you can choose between being solely cost conscious or considering quality and functionality before you make your decision. Moreover, as […]
Specifications of Tarps That are Designed For Lumber Load!
If you are transporting lumber in your cargo then you must make sure that the covering you use is specifically designed for that. Different cargo needs different types of protections. Thus it makes sense to get a specially designed tarp for your lumber. Lumber needs to be drier than perhaps any other type of cargo, […]
Flatbed Lumber Tarps – A Great Protector of Goods
Firstly, let us check the meanings of what a lumber is and what a tarp is. A lumber in the simplest language is a load of raw wood material. Have you ever seen trucks carrying wood? Have you noticed the wood covered with a waterproof polythene or nylon tarpaulin sheet? That is exactly what […]
5 Important Tips on Using Flatbed Tarps to Cover Loads
Tarps can be very useful for heavy vehicles like trucks, trailers and motor homes. They hold the cargo in place when it is been transported through bumpy roads, hilly terrains and other challenging road trips. Their main purpose is to protect the cargo from weather conditions like rain, snow, wind and harmful sun rays. […]
7 Amazing Facts about Lumber Tarp: That Will Let You Rule the Road
Lumber tarps are important cargo for flatbed truckers because logging is such a huge industry in North America, but it can also be heavy and dangerous. That’s why it’s important to choose high quality materials to truck lumber. Fortunately, investing in high-quality lumber tarps empowers you to take on many types of cargo that require […]
Benefits of Using Lumber Tarps for Flatbed Truckers
At first thought, it may seem that applying tarps to lumber loads is a waste of time. We just assume lumber is durable enough to handle a trip up the interstate without too many problems. However, that isn’t the case. There is one silent villain of lumber that could cause monstrous levels of damage and […]
Parachutes: Not Just for Jumping out of Airplanes
Jumping out of an airplane with nothing but a parachute to get you safely to the ground requires quite a bit of trust in the material and mechanics of that parachute. Common sense dictates that you would want a parachute material capable of withstanding the stresses of skydiving. Well, guess what? The same kinds of […]
It’s All Flatbeds and Lumber Tarps in Bitterroot
As the sun comes up on the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana, the trucks are already lining up on one of several logging roads now active in the forest. Those trucks, and their drivers, are waiting for loads of lumber to be carried to a sawmill in Seeley Lake and other logging towns nearby. Up […]
Slick New Trailers Still Need Tarps
The 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show held in early April was quite a show. Independent contractors, carriers and shippers from all over the country descended on the show to see the latest and greatest in new equipment. Among the highlights of the show were new flatbeds from companies such as Great Dane. Yet no matter how […]
The A-Z of Flatbed Lumber tarps
Lumber means a raw wood material and tarp means cover. So lumber tarps are covers made of tarpaulin of canvas material to cover such raw wood material. They are also to protect the lumber from heat and rain while carrying the same on the truck. Before we set our eyes on lumber tarps, let’s first […]
Advantages of Lumber Tarps are not only limited to Trucks
When the word tarp is mentioned, people tend to associate it to huge loads covered with lumber tarps or flatbed tarps. These tarps are definitely effective to secure an protect the cargo when being hauled by the truckers, but today the use of these tarps is not limited to covering heavy duty loads. Tarps are […]