What really sucks is having to tarp stuff that doesn't need to be tarped, like steel beams that are stored outdoors in the weather anyway. Picked up lumber in Palmer, Ma. one time that was supposed to be tarped- had about a foot of snow on top of it. I told them that was just plain stupid, and I didn't tarp it. Even had to tarp a load of structural steel once that I picked up in Ohio and took to Boston. Used every piece of carpet and padding that I had and still tore the tarps up. Or the coils we used to haul to Lane in Dublin, Va. They made spiral culvert pipes out of them. They would put a big block of wood through the eye of the coils and unload them with a big forklift and set them on the ground. They would complain that we were holding them up while we got the tarps off, because they didn't need to be tarped in the first place. But they wouldn't give you the paperwork at the mill in Martin's Ferry until the load was tarped. And it sucks trying to untarp and get them folded in the snow when it's 1 degree like in Boyers, Pa. the other day. Like trying to fold a piece of plywood. I try to get them folded smaller than a Volkswagon, and sometimes I can. And it really, really sucks tarping or untarping when the wind is blowing, especially if it's 1 degree.