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Thanks!", "thumbUrl": "", "dateAdded": "2012-04-18T18:30:30Z", "lastPost": "2012-04-18T18:30:30Z", "views": 4573, "likes": 1, "dislikes": 0, "messageCount": 9, "premiumOnly": 0, "isfeatured": 0, "showInDays": -100, "showDate": "", "forumLink": "", "youtubeVideoId": "", "approved": 1, "active": 1, "alias": "searching-for-hoppers-wenvironmental-tarps", "forumUrl": "https://www.bulkloads.com/forum/searching-for-hoppers-wenvironmental-tarps/", "userId": 7262, "firstName": "DEREK", "lastName": "JENSEN", "companyName": "FEED PRODUCTS & SERVICE COMPANY", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "ST LOUIS", "state": "MO", "userCommentCount": 3, "userLikes": 0, "replies": [ { "replyId": 22332, "content": "JUST EXACTLY WHAT IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TARP?", "contentHtml": "JUST EXACTLY WHAT IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TARP?", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-02-15", "dateAdded": "2012-04-20T17:40:22Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 6597, "firstName": "RICHARD", "lastName": "CLAPP", "companyName": "RICHARD CLAPP TRUCKING LLC", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "VILLA GROVE", "state": "IL", "userCommentCount": 8, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 28385, "content": "IT IS A TARP THAT YOU BUY TO SOLVE SOMEONE ELSE'S DUST CONTROL PROBLEM, SAVING THAT COMPANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN MONEY THEY DON'T HAVE TO SPEND TO INSTALL THE EQUIPMENT. THE TARPS HAVE EITHER A VELCRO FLAP OR A ZIPPER THEN A FLAP SEWN INTO THE TARP SO THE LOADING POINT CAN RUN A STINGET IN AND LOAD THE PRODUCT WITH A MINIMUM OF DUST TO THE OUTSIDE AIR. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THAT I HAD WITH THEM IS THAT AFTER A FEW USES THEY WOULD LEAK IN A HEAVY RAIN AND YOU COULD EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF A FREIGHT CLAIM ON SOME OTHER LOAD THAT WAS DAMAGED BY WATER. YOU WOULD HAVE THE KNOWLEGE AND THE WARM FUZZY FEELING THO OF HAVING SAVED THE FIRST COMPANY ALL THAT MONEY WHILE YOU ARE TAKING THE HIT ON A WATER DAMAGE CLAIM ON ANOTHER LOAD.", "contentHtml": "IT IS A TARP THAT YOU BUY TO SOLVE SOMEONE ELSE'S DUST CONTROL PROBLEM, SAVING THAT COMPANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN MONEY THEY DON'T HAVE TO SPEND TO INSTALL THE EQUIPMENT. THE TARPS HAVE EITHER A VELCRO FLAP OR A ZIPPER THEN A FLAP SEWN INTO THE TARP SO THE LOADING POINT CAN RUN A STINGET IN AND LOAD THE PRODUCT WITH A MINIMUM OF DUST TO THE OUTSIDE AIR. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THAT I HAD WITH THEM IS THAT AFTER A FEW USES THEY WOULD LEAK IN A HEAVY RAIN AND YOU COULD EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF A FREIGHT CLAIM ON SOME OTHER LOAD THAT WAS DAMAGED BY WATER. YOU WOULD HAVE THE KNOWLEGE AND THE WARM FUZZY FEELING THO OF HAVING SAVED THE FIRST COMPANY ALL THAT MONEY WHILE YOU ARE TAKING THE HIT ON A WATER DAMAGE CLAIM ON ANOTHER LOAD.", "parentReplyId": 22332, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-03-10", "dateAdded": "2012-04-20T21:27:32Z", "likes": 4, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 653, "firstName": "Duane", "lastName": "Geiselman", "companyName": "FCFH TRANSPORTATION LLC", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Holbrook", "state": "NE", "userCommentCount": 286, "userLikes": 4, "userDislikes": 1, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 22333, "content": "Not interested in the least. If a new, good fitting tarp is not good enough, then I am not interested in the scenario you posted. It's hard enough to make it out here without asking for trouble. After 48 years, I just want decent paying freight from companies who will pay their bill on time!!", "contentHtml": "Not interested in the least. If a new, good fitting tarp is not good enough, then I am not interested in the scenario you posted. It's hard enough to make it out here without asking for trouble. After 48 years, I just want decent paying freight from companies who will pay their bill on time!!", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-02-15", "dateAdded": "2012-04-20T23:41:01Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 6597, "firstName": "RICHARD", "lastName": "CLAPP", "companyName": "RICHARD CLAPP TRUCKING LLC", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "VILLA GROVE", "state": "IL", "userCommentCount": 8, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 22334, "content": "I have one, When I replaced my tarp two years ago. The tarp maker try to talk me out of it. I thought I was going make big money by having one. Haul some sand to make beer bottles in Oklahoma. Just doing my part. This Bud was for me. Now it does not leak, But I have never opened it. The rate was not better than a load of grain. You quessed it I will haul grain first. The replacement tarp will NOT be a EPA tarp. Don't forget you have to climb up and crawl on the tarp to open it. That's why it has never been open. Fat boys don't bounce when falling off trailers", "contentHtml": "I have one, When I replaced my tarp two years ago. The tarp maker try to talk me out of it. I thought I was going make big money by having one. Haul some sand to make beer bottles in Oklahoma. Just doing my part. This Bud was for me. Now it does not leak, But I have never opened it. The rate was not better than a load of grain. You quessed it I will haul grain first. The replacement tarp will NOT be a EPA tarp. Don't forget you have to climb up and crawl on the tarp to open it. That's why it has never been open. Fat boys don't bounce when falling off trailers", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-05-14", "dateAdded": "2012-04-21T03:51:30Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 1164, "firstName": "MARC", "lastName": "HIRSCHMANN", "companyName": "MARC HIRSCHMANN", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "GARDNER", "state": "KS", "userCommentCount": 45, "userLikes": 11, "userDislikes": 4, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 22335, "content": "will you supply tarp", "contentHtml": "will you supply tarp", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-09-02", "dateAdded": "2012-04-24T00:04:25Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 2518, "firstName": "BILL ", "lastName": "NORWOOD", "companyName": "POLECAT", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Concord", "state": "GA", "userCommentCount": 53, "userLikes": 6, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 22336, "content": "Little America,WY truckstop will install plastic taped to your painted and well cared for trailer,by a bunch of kids that aren't going to treat your nice clean hopper too well, for $175.00. Or you can just bounce to grain country 400 miles and get back in the system. I always choose the later. EPA tarps are brutal in the winter also.....", "contentHtml": "Little America,WY truckstop will install plastic taped to your painted and well cared for trailer,by a bunch of kids that aren't going to treat your nice clean hopper too well, for $175.00. Or you can just bounce to grain country 400 miles and get back in the system. I always choose the later. EPA tarps are brutal in the winter also..... ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-03-01", "dateAdded": "2012-05-02T19:41:03Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 6782, "firstName": "JOE", "lastName": "MATA", "companyName": "JPM GRAIN TRANSPORT", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Hamilton", "state": "OH", "userCommentCount": 83, "userLikes": 116, "userDislikes": 35, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 28386, "content": "To avoid the leakage problem you need only string support bows between the big bows, it keeps the tarp from sagging around the holes, it's a minimal cost and we run EPA tarps on all of our trailers and have had no trouble with leakage, it's just a matter of a small additional cost.", "contentHtml": "To avoid the leakage problem you need only string support bows between the big bows, it keeps the tarp from sagging around the holes, it's a minimal cost and we run EPA tarps on all of our trailers and have had no trouble with leakage, it's just a matter of a small additional cost.", "parentReplyId": 22332, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/JIM-NOLTE-SANDERS INC.-4853-611713-Jims Pics 023.jpg", "signUpDate": "2011-07-01", "dateAdded": "2012-05-02T21:45:50Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 4853, "firstName": "Jim", "lastName": "Nolte", "companyName": "SANDERS INC.", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Ellsworth", "state": "MN", "userCommentCount": 100, "userLikes": 13, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 29003, "content": "I agree with Jim, I've had an EPA tarp on my last four trailers, I've never had a leakage issue.", "contentHtml": "I agree with Jim, I<span class=\"GRcorrect\" grphrase=\"5b15ebc9d57ba3a4c61f895c1cd6c2e62f73fe34\" grtype=\"null\" id=\"GRmark_5b15ebc9d57ba3a4c61f895c1cd6c2e62f73fe34_'ve had:0\">'ve had</span> an EPA tarp on my last four trailers, I've never had a leakage issue.", "parentReplyId": 28386, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-03-04", "dateAdded": "2012-05-03T17:56:21Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 340, "firstName": "Steve", "lastName": "Neville", "companyName": "STEVE NEVILLE", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Odebolt", "state": "IA", "userCommentCount": 49, "userLikes": 187, "userDislikes": 3, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 } ], "userDislikes": 0, "signUpDate": "2012-04-18", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0, "iSubscribe": 0 }

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Posted on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:30 PM CST in ST LOUIS, MO