Everyone's used to seeing tarps used as a truck cover for vehicles being stored long-term outdoors like the old '57 Ford pickup you plan to renovate one day. They're also very useful for covering late model trucks to protect them from inclement weather or an accumulation of pollen if you don't have adequate garage space for all your vehicles. And they're a whole lot cheaper than building a new garage!

There are other ways tarps can be used as truck covers, however, and some of them involve covering only a part of the truck, not necessarily the entire thing. If you have an open bed on your truck and can't afford a customized or fitted Tonneau cover, for example: it's a great idea to carry along extra tarps (and rope to tie them off) for any time you might be carrying a load you don't want getting wet in bad weather. For instance, when you go furniture or appliance shopping, you don't really want your new stuff getting soaked before you even get it home.

In addition, even if you have a Tonneau cover, you usually have to roll it back or remove it if your items will stick up over the edge of the truck bed, so anything taller than about 20 inches or so won't be protected by that cover anyway. Tarps are a great alternative because they drape over objects and can be anchored down, protecting items of any shape or size.

You can also use them to cover the back of your truck when transporting loads that could blow out of the truck bed, such as lightweight building materials, Styrofoam, or even garbage that you don't want to stop and pick off the road or risk losing. If necessary, combine strapping the load down with covering it completely with an inexpensive tarp.

If you'll be helping someone move, covering the furniture and household goods with a tarp between point A and point B is helpful and keeps the items from getting covered with dust in rural areas or snow in the winter. You'll be glad you did.

And if you've hauling a load of sand, dirt, or rock, a good tarp not only protects your load, but it can also protect you from possible liability if one of the rocks flies off of the back of your truck while you're going down the highway and breaks someone else's windshield.

Over-the-road truck drivers know tarps are also incredibly useful when transporting anything on a flat bed truck. So whether it is your 18-wheel rig or a down-home version of the flat bed you rigged up on your old pickup, tarps help cover and protect anything you're hauling on a truck.

The bottom line is, if you have a truck, you need a pile of tarps, and you need to keep some of them either under or behind the seat so they're always handy, because you just never know when you're going to need one. And if not for you, then offer up one of the inexpensive ones to a friend when it looks like they could use it. They'll remember you for it and it's always nice to have a few favors you can collect if you ever really need them!

Tarpaulins expert Robert Page has worked in the tarps industry for over twenty-five years. Robert has used heavy duty tarps in the past. For more information, please visit http://www.tarpaflex.com or for more information http://www.tarpaflex.com/acatalog/Super_Green_Heavy_Duty_Tarps.html

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