Hi from France ,i used to work for Blakiston's in Geelong,back in the 80's, i was based in Melbourne, i use to tarp two,maybe three times a day,depending on the frieght, Melbourne-Geelong isn't that far. Back then it was a matter of pride,that front and back enveloppe had to be tighter than a guitar string,when you were finished there wouldn't be a single crease, looked as though it had been ironed.There was an art to folding your tarp,an art to unrolling it as well. I've even still have some photos. Your knots are called a half hitch and a clove hitch.Some times you'd have to splice the ends,even slice two ropes to make one or simply slice the ropes back onto to your tarp. But now some 34 years later,god knows how many miles,i now drive a petrol tanker local in and around Lyon. I really like your chanel,i enjoy all of your vidéos,i honestly can't fault any of them. Have a great day.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps. I actually live in Point Cook so you might remember that near Werribee.

I’ve always called the knots with the loops in them a Sheepshank & a 1/2 hitch on the tie rail. And how you’ve tarped that trailer is absolutely exactly the way I was taught 40 years ago & was still using them when I was last on the Darwin run in 2016

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome. I was shown by the old school guys.

@ThePaulv12

11 ай бұрын

There's a vid on KZread from a training school that shows the way I was taught. They call it a Beehive, I call it a Truckies Hitch: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aWecqtabj8zMYco.html If you've got rings like that on the tarp you don't need to use them anyhow since the rings are the pulley blocks, but the ropes have an advantage when using a Truckies Hitch and that's they lock in better.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes he did a very good job at explaining.

Hi! I am writing to you from Poland, I am also a truck driver, but I drive on a walking floor. Your videos are very interesting, I can see the hardships of working in Australia, the climate is different in Europe and work seems to be easier on a refrigerated trailer, curtainsider or flatbed. I have a little dream to visit Australia. Greetings, wide road John! ;)

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah that would be great for you to come here. See all the big trucks. I'd love to go to Europe one day.

I agree with you about the talking mate. Those yanks can talk a glass eye to sleep. I’ve always been a watch and learn bloke.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

That's very good.

We always called them sheepshanks. Tarping with wet muddy ropes in winter was always great fun, dry, cracked skin wasn't sore at all... The quality of the tarp job showed the quality of the operator.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Where do you call them sheepshanks? Yes a good tarp job looks good

@ctiley2212

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures Western Australia, up the coast and also across the paddock for many years, mainly to Melbourne.

@glennbrown1961

11 ай бұрын

The "trucks hitch" or "pulleys" you tied into the rope are typically called sheep shanks. It's the name for the knot. Used by sailors and boy scouts the world over!

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes I'll remember that from now on. Thanks

@gsd4me00

11 ай бұрын

I heard them called sheepshanks too, but it was back in NZ many years ago.

Way back when, in the UK, I used to drive much smaller trucks than you do, but I really enjoyed roping and tarping. The systems were different, no bars to rope to, but numerous welded hooks under the flat. Anyway, then straps took over and the art seemed to go out of it! I still love rope though - maybe that's why I now live on a boat 🙂.

@RoadTrainAdventures

9 ай бұрын

Oh Malcolm. We only have to tarp every fifth load or so. I don't like it. It's just something we have to do sometimes.

Love watching your tarp job. Everyone does it different. In the states i pulled a single 48 foot flat trailer,i had 4 tarps. We rolled them out from back to front depending on the size of the load,sometimes I'd use all 4 sometimes not. But still like watching others tarp jobs.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps All of our trailers are 48 foot.

Back in the 70s in Yorkshire UK we used to not only tie down the tarp but secure the load using ropes. We used to call it a "twitch". It allowed you to double the leverage you could put on the rope. 😂😂😂 Brings back memories of working with my Dad. Thank you.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Dave. Yes I hear from other older drivers that before straps, everything had to be tied down with ropes.

I think you are doing just fine doing what you have been doing, please keep it up if you can. Thx

@RoadTrainAdventures

10 ай бұрын

Sure thing

Another way of putting the 1/2 hitch is to wrap the rope behind it self before you reef down on it and it’s easier to undo when you want to undo the rope, hard to explain here , but something an old truckie showed me 40 years ago, cheers,

@RoadTrainAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Yes. The older truckies here do that.

Great job you doing. Stay safe. Love seeing your Kenworth. Beauty of a truck.👍

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Justin. It's great to have your along.

I recently quit a job where I was doing multi drop steel deliveries and tarping. Earlier on this year, I was standing on top of the load after completing the first drop of 5 and pulling the tarp back across (one side was still tied off) and as I was pulling it over a gust of wind ballooned the tarp, a rope wrapped around my ankle and knocked me over. Luckily I'm fit and strong and all that happened was I fell on my back on top of a pack of steel. Big tarps are bloody dangerous in windy conditions. Freaky shit like this happens. After that I was so over multi drop steel deliveries I looked for a tanker job. I like hard work but a time comes where you realize for the degree of effort and experience you have they aren't paying you enough and it starts eating at you. Tarp, untarp, retarp, repeat in the rain is hard yakka. They make you tarp when it's 40deg C or raining, it doesn't matter. I was getting reasonable not great money as a company driver say $75k a year for 40 hours with holiday and sick pay. So I looked and found a tanker job and I now get paid $9 an hour more for doing one or two pickups and one delivery (which I'm not required to unload) with overtime and penalty rates. The only hard work in this job is sometimes I have to break up the trailers to load and I always have to break them up at the end of each shift for unloading which means the set has to be assembled at the start of the shift too. I'm never in the same truck in this job though and they're all lowish power and I drive in hilly country so they're slow when loaded, like really slow - 25kmh slow many times. Crappy 425hp auto Macks... I miss my 600hp Cummins in the K104 from the steel job but that's about all I miss. When it was slow it was still doing 70kmh LOL.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story. It's not all tarping with us. Maybe every fifth load I might have to tarp and it's very rarely more than one drop on each trailer. Your job does sound like a lot of hard work. I've done pressurised tanker work. You didn't say which kind of tanker you had.

Johnno, double wrap the top knot of the sheep shank and it will NEVER slip when tightening ( Give it plenty of back 😂) Also unwraps easily when undoing wet ropes. Keep up the good work mate.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve. I see the very old school double wrap but that's not for me.

@itsnotaball

11 ай бұрын

Hahaha, old school . Makes me sound old, but then again, I am!!!

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome

I only know it as a "truckies knot".....comes in very handy.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

For sure

Hi Johno Good meeting you at the BP at Kewdale today, having a bit of a look at your channel, some great info. Saying that I'll stick with my box, no tarping for this old boy Say hi to Ken for me and the Lindsay Mob Cheers Pete

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome Pete. Yeah you gotta work where you enjoy you job. I'll certainly say hi to Ken for you too.

What an effort! Must add a couple of hours each way loading and unloading the tarp! Another great video Johno!

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

It's not that bad. We only have to tarp every fifth load or so. Undoing and rolling up a tarp doesn't take long either. All in a day's effort.

You have nice balance between talking, silence, music and engine noise!

@RoadTrainAdventures

Ай бұрын

Very nice. Thanks

I think in the UK the truckers would refer to them as "hitches". I.e. A truckers hitch. Enjoy the videos very informative, good drone shots.

@RoadTrainAdventures

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Nigel. You may be right.

We used to tarp our loads like that, but not in the UK now , it's more curtainsiders, or ratchet straps now.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes tautliners are the way more big we still need flat tops.

Greetings from bernie from hamburg germany

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Hello Germany. Great to have you along.

We call them a dolly knot here in the uk .nice job of that sheeting.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Stuart. Interesting name in the UK

man didnt know this was so much work....really gratefull we have truck drivers doing this job all year round. as for future content: basically do what you enjoy doing for content, because this joy comes across in videos. I always liked the rather short videos driving through all the beautiful landscapes you go through, with or without music. Its always so relaxing and inspiring :)

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Jack. I try my best.

The wind can be an opponent. The advantage of the heavy canvas,insteat of plastic tarp. I never done that. Whel just once.With a load of sugar carrots. Driving in the cold night. That tarps had to be against the frost. But it was that thin plastic orange tarp. With bungees. Totally worthless,But they wanted that. hahaha. You know as i what happend. On the road it was completely torn into pieces. Flapping among the truck. And then i have to clean it up in the cold dark,and put it away. Everything for nathing.and cold as a ice cube. So you made an other teaching video what we can learn from. Your vids are very good Johnno.Always different and there is everything in it. Education, the landscape even with a drone, what you are experiencing, the truck,the roads etc. You show it all calmly and in peace.Just like Tez and FreeBrisbane. You are not the ''show off type'' and ''look how good i am''. But you are. I dont know if every truckie or Aussie is like that.But it dos do good. Just normal people.Better than the bozo's over here.Overal, do not like it here. As someone already wrote, the operational areas for A-Doubles/triples and B-doubles and when to yuse them, and why and ,seems like a good topic too.intresting. Stay safe. Have a vrey nice time with your family at home.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks again. I need to make a list of these requests so I don't forget them. I'm bad at that.

@MarioVanDerMaas

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures Whatever you want and like to show us..Its all good.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome

In answer to your question about what content you should post? Just keep doing what you’re doing mate, I’m 55 & was medically retired in 2016 when I broke my back, I now live vicariously through yours & other Aussie road train especially videos

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Oh cool. Who else do you watch? Ken , Tez and I talk together a lot

@danielgilpin6968

11 ай бұрын

What other road train videos are there?

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Many on my channel.

@danielgilpin6968

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures your videos are great and I watch them all.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome

Wow, I used to see heaps of trucks in the 70s and 80s with tarps on loads. Don't see a lot these days. Thank you for bringing back good memories . 👍

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes it's a funny art. It's rather tarp my load than have to open curtains every time I wanted to get to my load.

@warrickjones590

11 ай бұрын

I'll be sharing to my American mates.

@johnnyrot1075

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures The Tautliner or curtain-side Trailers have taken the place of all general freight that used to be loaded onto trailers with Gates Side curtains cap tarps and full trailer tarp (as you are using here) i was very happy to go from general freight to refrigerated freight Mostly fork on fork off but sometimes we would hand stack freight But no Tarps The rope pully knot we called a truckles hitch On line they refer to it as a truckers hitch

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

That's very good of you Warrick. Thank you very much

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Even easier are side tippers. With automatic taps you never have to get it off the truck. Great when it's hot.

I really enjoy watching your videos .love Australia ! Would love too visit someday. Ron from Maine USA

@RoadTrainAdventures

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Ron. Well come on down. We need some more good operators.

I started tarping in London '75 for Lucas Industries, (The Man Who Invented Darkness), and did heaps more for Layton-Kirkman doing steel and soda ash, ( middle of summer, long sleeve overalls ). I always called those rope hitches 'dollies'. The earlier commenter was right. All the London loads were held down with ropes, usually old weather beaten ropes that you could snap with a double dolly. All the trailers had open hooks along the side. Made it easy to loop the load and tarp ropes; you didn't have to feed through a combing rail. Power steering was only for new trucks, the rest had 'Armstrong' steering. Tautliners were only just coming in. When I got back to Oz in 78 there wasn't a tautliner to be seen. We was men then indeed! Nearly a half century since then of the road. Sunrises, diesel, dust and dead roos. Going back to flatbed and tarping this year. 70? Too old? I'll soon find out :)

@RoadTrainAdventures

3 ай бұрын

You got it. There are many bands for those knots. The truck drivers today have it too easy.. Not many even change a tyre. This is mainly due to companies not allowing them to.

Wow, as a boilermaker on truck and trailer maintenance I love watching drivers and yardies busting their ass putting tarps on ,and wonder whether if they have heard of Tautliners. The two knots are clove hitch and sheepshank. I like your videos Johnno, regards steve

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve. I'd still rather tarp every fifth load or so than have to open and close a tautliners to load or unload. Yes you're right with the name of the knot.

New subscriber and a old man that used to drive big trucks single trailers tankers and flatbeds I don't anything wrong with the way you tie your tarp keep on keeping on from USA

@RoadTrainAdventures

9 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks Larry and it's great to have you along.

More traditional way of doing it. I was watching a trucking show from Canada. They use rubber stretch hook straps. Not ropes on the tarps. Or at least the one I was watching did. That seemed weird to me. When I first got to Oz from UK and went to tie anything to a truck I was lost. On all the trailers I had worked with they had hook tie offs. Not rails. Did the truckie hitch pulled the loop down to hook off. No hook. Had to get someone to show me. Go behind the rail up and across. Then pull the loop up and make the hitch. I had always made the hitch first. My brain just got cross wired. Now after 25 years of rails. That seems the norm. Still annoys me a bit having to keep feeding the rope behind a rail all the time. It is easier to tie to a hook. But both systems have their benefits and faults. Very true. If they flap, they tear.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes I've been told by others about this rubber strap. I just don't see how you could have a tight tarp using that method.

Good job on the tarp l liked how you tied your tarp down, nice and neat.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve

@steventoshack618

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures no prob. l enjoy your videos.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks for watching

You said like a crane driver, but the word you were looking for is a double hitch, you don’t see as many fully tarped loads anymore, mostly see pantech trailers, on national highways, tarpping is very labour intensive, but good to watch an expert, cheers from Downunder ❤️🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺

@RoadTrainAdventures

5 ай бұрын

A good tarped trailer looks great

You're keeping it interesting and compare very well with our overseas friends digger.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks David. I try to

@davidforbes6250

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures You're most welcome.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome

You need to come over to the UK and give a few drivers a lesson on tarping loads. - The number of times I see tarps and ropes flapping in the breeze is scary, worst are when half the trap is dragging along the road surface, and a massive length of rope trailing behind....

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Ha ha. Yeah some people don't check their loads much or at least look in the mirror. Do you think I'd got in there with my accent. Do I sound English?

@18robsmith

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures I'm sure exceptions can be made for those rendering "essential educational services" ;-) (Oh, nor am I English....)

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

For sure

Everyone has their own unique way or style or Tarping Johnno.. As long as the freights cover mate.. Most of our tarps had a 3rd row of shorteners.. My tarp even had extra ones to pull the flap out at each end.. Used to take me around 3hrs each end to tarp a bdouble lol.. Two of our tarps were 6ft drop 5ft gates they took some work to get right.. Good job mate! 👌

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes you're very right. All of our tarps are different in the ways you just described.

Plenty of half hitch & dbl clove hitch anchor knots there, with a few decent sheepshank truckies knots, old school, nice. i knew i was forced to go to boy scouts for a reason, just didnt realize way back then

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes all the things we learn when we're young and we didn't realise why. Now it all makes sense.

Hi mate, I used to tie my truckie knot the same way you do but I got sick of trying to push the knob end through the twist loop. Instead of twisting the loop with your fingers, I just wrap the knob end that's in your left, with a double wrap (use right hand and the rope that you would have twisted). Make sure the second wrap sits inside the first wrap and next to the strained rope so that it doesn't try to flip off. Hope that makes some sense.

@RoadTrainAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Brandon. Yes the older guys here do it that way. Maybe I'll try it when I can remember.

Yeah that knot is a truckers knot. My whole life around trucks and my whole family drives trucks my favorite is the KW AND Pete 379 Well the one that is done on your trailer is a hitch and the one on the tarp is a truckers knot

@RoadTrainAdventures

4 ай бұрын

Very good. You know your stuff

My father taught me this knot, many decades ago...he called it a "Truckies Hitch".

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah it's probably the most popular name for it.

I vividly remember my first ever tarping on my own. Loaded at the old Clyde Oil Refinery in Sydney. Forkie put top tarp on top for me. Put the gates on. Got the curtains on. Spread out the top tarp, then ... a bloody gale whipped up! Lost the tarp twice before I finally got the job done. Gave the forkies some entertainment

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Oh wow. Yeah I've nearly lost the tarp from the wind. Terrible stuff

Hi over here in the uk the knot with a loop is called a dolly 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@RoadTrainAdventures

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Drew. A dolly you say. OK thanks

Tarping wasn’t my favourite part. Try to tarp and untarp in Canada at - 20 C. The tarp is hard as a rock. Sometimes, sticking on the load, so you have to climb on it… Tarping keeps you fit. You’ve got another subscriber 😀

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

It doesn't get that cold but yes the taps get very stiff. It's great to have your along too.

A well tarped load always looks good. It is half a sheep shank, the other half is the rail. Clove hitch on the rail as everyone has pointed out. You only really need 2 knots to tie anything on. You are doubling the mechanical advantage and halving the effort by putting the rope through the ring or you can put another shank in and do the same thing as you know. Just like a pulley block and tackle but with more friction. Can you show us how you roll the excess strap up and loop it up? I wonder if the American bloke in the other comment with his rubber straps has ever worn a ring in the face when something broke? Jeff

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Ha ha. Wow a ring in the face.. Or what about if the strap breaks?

I've always called em a truckies knot,I use to do tarps back in the mid 90''s after 3 years I had the biggest kalis on the side of my right hand which was atleast 10mm thick of hard skin and when it cracked now and then was very annoying and painful,joys of tarping.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Ha ha. Yeah I get those too hence the reason I use a glove of one hand otherwise I get blisters.

I like your attitude. It doesn't matter how much you know, if you keep your eyes open (and your mind) you can ALWAYS learn new ways of doing stuff. LOVE how you show bits of our country most people never get to see. Keep doing what you are doing! Cheers and G'day from Tasmania

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Glenn. We are coming to Tasmania for Christmas so no doubt I'll bump in to you at the shops. Ha ha

It's like putting socks on centipedes!

@RoadTrainAdventures

Ай бұрын

For sure. If I were to speed it all up

Excellent work, here in the USA we use rubber rope and bungees.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes I've been hearing that through my other viewers. I'll have to see a video to see this in action.

Hi, most informative. Takes me back 40 plus years. I notice that your trailers do not have load scales, so it might help others if you can explain how you calculate where to place on your load on the trailers, for maximum loading on both the tri's, dolly and drive. Another topic that could be discussed is the operational areas for A-Doubles in Australia. This would help your overseas subscribers understand our many different regulations, both Federal and State.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah for sure. Many videos to come. How do I know how much to put on? I use the Force... Ha ha. No I do have scales in my truck and also on the trailers but I went over a weighbridge on the way out of the place I got loaded.

After some years playing with tarps in all kinds of weather,I was glad to spend the last 10 years before retirement on curtain siders.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah sometimes it's easier but only if you get a load that must keep dry. A lot of our loads don't matter if it gets wet.

(8:45) yep its all about the envelope Jonno,dont get that looking nice and square and pretty every fridge driver that's never tarped a load will be hanging it onya :).

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Ha ha. For sure

I am on flatbed here in Canada and our trailers are 53’ but I often do super B’s too. I always have to use at least 2 tarps to cover the load, sometimes even 4🙄. Tarping is hard work. In the summer you are sweating like ….. and in proper Canadian winter the tarps don’t fold too much😁. I use bungees not ropes to tie the tarps down. I’m planning to move to Australia next year and drive there so I’m glad I found your channel. You got so many interesting and valuable things here. You just got another subscriber mate!

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks JM. It's great to have you along and no doubt I'll bump into you next year when you're here. Ha ha. Australia is a big page but if you get a job driving around here then it's quite possible. Let us know when you get here.

@JM-cy8cl

11 ай бұрын

May I have a question? Is your “road ranger” manual the same as “eaton fuller” here in Canada and US? Can you float the gears without a clutch on your road ranger gearbox? Just wondering if it allows you to do it too.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

If course they are the same Eaton Fuller. I never use the clutch except for putting it into gear.

@JM-cy8cl

11 ай бұрын

Same here👍. Good to know. Thanks

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome

He mate i try watch all your videos i live in Tailem Bend you would of driven straight past my front door. Keep up the good work

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

I didn't see you wave when I passed by. Ha ha. I don't pass by Tailem Bend much so it will probably be a long time before I go through there again.

What a great job tarping. In my country flatbeds are common used by truckers and they tarp with ropes too, the method is the same but they ties the ropes all around over the tarp from side to side to secure it, as well with some loads too. I hope to buy my truck to start in the industry😄 Cheers from Venezuela👋

@RoadTrainAdventures

10 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks. It's great to have your along

I have always called them a truckies knot or truckies hitch tied off with 2 half hitches. Pretty much the only 2 knots you ever need on a truck.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Oh for sure

Hi Johnno ..loved the video. My dad taught me to do the 2nd loop you do then the half hitch. Not sure what it’s called the 2nd loop you do, I also taught my boys. As you can imagine many not know how to tie down these days, as every one has straps.great video mate.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Mark. Yes it's certainly good to know.

David Hunn Ah, fond memories of ropes, especially when new, ripping my lower fingers to shreds on a wet day when I started my driving life. 🙂

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah. That's why I have to wear one glove. My hands get blisters all over them.

G'day my name's Andrew from Tasmania I've been watching your tracking you top up your trailer down you are doing an absolute one question could you please take a video of inside your truck and your tiny bit about the inside of your truck if you could please the moving your GoPro so we can see more of the road thank you very much for preso appreciate everything you are doing on your show keep it up and Andrew from Tasmania Launceston

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Andrew. I'll do an episode one day off my truck. I thought that might be boring for others but apparently not.

It's called a Half Sheepshank....but known as a "truckies knot"

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

That's the one. It's funny how I learn some things but never ask the name of it

I reckon that drone footage was done at Mount Compass???😉👌👍

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

You know your stuff well.

Just like clutches and stick shift, tarping loads is a dying trade. Great video mate.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Craig. Yeah the aren't too many old school operators left anymore.

North America we use either two piece or 3 piece tarps for a whole trailer the front and rear tarps will have a 10 by 10 flap at one end! We use rubber bungie cords or rubber rope to secure the tarps. When tarping we do the rear tarp first an work our way forward!

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

If you work from the rear first how doesn't the wind get under the back traps? That way doesn't sound very practical.

@matthewsmith9624

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventuresbecause our tarps our in either two or three pieces you put one or two bungee cords pulling the rear tarp forward then you secure the rear flap as fast as possible. then you use bungee cords to quickly secure it in place and secure the front, then you go back down the sides for the final securing of putting a bungee in every d ring nice and tight!

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

I'll have to check this out on a video so I can see what you're talking about.

@rons4778

11 ай бұрын

As 76 yo I learnt from a older man in my early teens and have always called it a hitch and the second one a half hitch I still to this day if I see a nice neat tarp job I will call on uhf and comment

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Very good

Good day Johno, The art of tarping it is certainly a lost art these days of tautliners etc. Like you I occasionally have to tarp up my load of timber for local work here in Melbourne, our company doesn’t own a tautliner trailer everything flat bed trailers all 45 ft long. Dangerous walking on a tarp whilst it is windy on your own. Back in the 90’s whilst working at NTFS in Adelaide everyday tarp at least 5 trailers to go piggy back on the Alice train on the way to Darwin. If you didn’t know how to tarp no start & being the new fella always up the top at 4.6 metres rolling out the tarp so many times I came very close to falling over the side & the wind used to pick up the tarp used to scare the shit out of you. Count it as rest time or work time on the book. Could be worse doing it in the rain. Great video you do admire looking at a tarp load these days when ever you come across one on the road. Safe driving. Cheers Louis Kats 👍 😊 🇦🇺

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Louis. Yeah it's not always windy. Like for the first trailer there was no wind.

Hi mate I love your channel as it is

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Kevin. It's great to have you along.

Brings back memories,done it thousands of times back in the day,and the wind is a bugger

@malcolmolle8984

11 ай бұрын

nice work !

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

You must be a good operator then.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps

Makes me appreciate the fridge trailers! Nice job by the way mate. Can tell you’ve done that once or twice before 👍🏻

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps

Nice job bloke👌

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks again Les

Enjoyed the video thanks

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Darren

Music vs. engine noise vs. talk? Do what you want, in the end it's your channel not anyone else's. Content - more important. Not having followed you for very long (time) it's just fascinating to see where you go and how long it takes (fuel burn would be interesting every now and then). I do like the little maps you chuck in as they put your journey into context, and as for you food breaks - it's entertaining and fascinating to see the variety and price differences.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Rob. I realise it's my channel but I also have to consider what my audience wants. I do this on balance too what I want though. Thanks for your ideas. I just have to remember to put these into action.

When you start your hitch if you put the rope the other way you will not have to pull the rope through behind the knot. So start the hitch with the rope going from left to right. Just a thought. But whatever works.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah that Mount ne am idea. I'll try to remember that next time. I'm always looking for any better ideas.

I've always known it as a "truckie's hitch'

@RoadTrainAdventures

Ай бұрын

You got it

Love your tarp job, we had to do all our loads like that, can appreciate your effort.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Good stuff. Thanks John.

No wonder you are fighting the wind. Have you noticed how fast the traffic drives past you?

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Ha ha. It's 110km/h zone on the Eastern Freeway so it has to be expected.

Another great video. I never appreciated the effort and skill it requires to tie a tarp into place properly let alone fold the ends neatly. I will never look at a well tarped trailer the same way again. I have no doubt you make you bed every morning with the same techniques and care😂😂😂😂

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Ha ha. No I don't make my bed that tight.

After watching a little longer, I believe your truckers knot is not a true sheep shank, sheep shanks are double looped (each end) their old time use was to shorten a rope. Excellent and entertaining video. Regards Ray

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Ray. Yeah I see some of our older drivers do those double loops.

I used to like tarping making them nice and tight and straight but I definitely don't miss it now that I'm a tanker driver now.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yes no strapping down liquids.

That’s what she said!😂

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

👍

Love the content. Sit watching for hours even thou I don't drive big rigs. Learn loads and just love the way you go thru things and explain things in a carlm way. Give me a shout out Ady from Lincoln in the UK

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Andy.it's great to have some more followers from the UK.

@adyjohnson1974

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures no n in Ady lol. Great stuff to watch. And you talking thru it is like a friend teaching how to do stuff it's ace

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

👍

Another good one johno i learned off my old man who has been doing it for 45 years tarping aint a bad skill to learn i like physical side to it like to keep active tighter the better when i pull up for a break set the alarm for 10 mins no more

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Very good

Thank you for another awesome video. I’ve just got myself a DJI Mavic 2 Pro, so love watching the drone footage too.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Oh wow. You'll have lots of fun with that

Good work. Tarps like that/Canvas are built to last. Have a hiking pack made from that which is 30 years old and still going strong!

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah for sure.

Nice one Johnno. More long form videos. Thanks for the tip on the 15 min power naps rather than a half hour one. Maybe do a run down on all the guages and dials etc in the cab. What's your fave wok in a box. Never had one but might get one tomorrow. Maybe you should get them to sponsor you. Cheers!

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike. I intend on showing you around the truck one day. It would be nice to show your around a new truck when I get one. I used to get Nasi seafood Goreng but they don't do that one anymore so I get the combination but I modify a little. I take it the oyster sugar and replace with Nasi sause.

We have a variation of the truckers knot here in the UK . Take the rope coming from over the load , pull tight making a loop and placing across the rope wrap around twisting and placing the loose around a hook ( we have hooks on UK trailers ) pulling tight , double up or even triple to pull really tight ...good for cabins and portable buildings . As for climbing on the trailer ...not a chance , on most sites here you would be banned from site because of health and safety regulations . Drive safely .

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah health and safety had gone overboard here too hence the reason I was doing that in a parking bay on the edge of the road.

Well known to me also as a Truckies Knot

@RoadTrainAdventures

3 ай бұрын

That's it

Brings back memories watching you tarp. The wind was always a bugger lol. You did a fantastic job. Great video love the way you interact with your viewers with the talking. Have watched a few American truck drivers and one guy used the black rubber bungee straps to hold his his tarp down. To be honest I would not thought that was legal.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Was the bungee straps just to hold it down while he uses the rope or just the bungee straps?

@onedayatatime4232

11 ай бұрын

@RoadTrainAdventures no the bungee straps were used to hold down the tarp, no ropes involved that I saw. The youtube channel was Call The Mall. He is a young Canadian Bdouble driver.

@hammer313

11 ай бұрын

@@onedayatatime4232 I love call the mall. I saw that video, it was a recent one. call the mall backs his b-double more than drives it forward. He would drive adelaide to darwin, then put it in reverse and back it back to adelaide ;)

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Wow. How could you ever tighten the tarp like that. It would flap away.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Oh that would be interesting.

That was hugely educating.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks Jessica

Well done Johno, you made an excellent Job, you are an artist ☺👌👍

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Ha ha. Thanks very much

@ken_worth

11 ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures very welcome mate 😃

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

👍

Gee i really enjoy your video's and your presenting style. Keep going. Well done

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps for that. I'll certainly press on

Oh I forgot to say I like the commentary and the music, I’d like you to wear an external mic, cos sometimes in the cab with the engine revving it’s hard to hear you voice, but other it’s all good champ , ❤️🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺

@RoadTrainAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Steven. I've got external radio mikes but haven't tried them inside the truck yet. I will try.

As a non truck driver I'm enjoying watching your videos. Wow how may hours spent preparing befor the drive. Keep up the good work.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome. It's great to have you along

I have to be completely honest here, I am so glad tautliners exist 😂Although I know some loads just have to go on flat tops like long steel and such. I love looking at peoples tarp jobs, it's so fascinating because I know how much of an art there is to is. I was watching some American truck vloggers, Big Rig Becca was one and I noticed on her tarps they only use bungee cords instead of ropes. Interesting how different places use different things. What's your thoughts on their style of tarping with bungees? Great video once again mate, love your work.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah there is the occasion when I wish I had tautliners, not many though. Some other people were telling me about the bungee straps. I watch Big Rigs Bec too. Wow just to pull one trailer around everywhere looks so easy.

@Dgaardy

11 ай бұрын

Great job Jonno I really appreciate the time it takes to put these together. Love the sound of the Cummins Keep it safe mate.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps. I certainly will

Knot is called a Blackwell Hitch

@RoadTrainAdventures

3 ай бұрын

That's another name

Awesome Jonno👍👍

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Matthew.

Great vid very entertaining.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Oh great. Thanks Andrew

I really enjoy your videos, as always great content keep it up mate! Watching from New Zealand.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Daniel

I am from qld but drive around states tarps here r plastic and they r cunt of a things to put on. They use bungee cords here and u will see nice petes with flapping tarps. Good video mate.

@RoadTrainAdventures

Ай бұрын

Flapping tarp is no good. I can't see how a bungee is going to ever keep the tarp tight.

@jagvirdhanda9742

Ай бұрын

@@RoadTrainAdventures yeah thats all they use its pretty stupid if u ask me. And they use two tarps over lap them as they are shorter. And i showed couple of guys the photos how we tarp them and they were surprised to see how neat our are.

Hey Johnno, finally got through the video (wow what a marathon) - how about a video on your drone ie how you go about it etc, I’m sure most of us average joes would be interested to see how it’s all done without you giving too many secrets away.👍

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I can't show all my secrets but yes I'll try to do a drone video some time too

Good demo mate lots of information mate.

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Tez. Looking forward to your next episode.

So good

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Rachel

Great work John thanks for sharing 🦘

@RoadTrainAdventures

11 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks again Kerry

Truckies Hitch those knots are called.

@RoadTrainAdventures

9 ай бұрын

That's the one