{"id":407,"date":"2017-05-30T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/?p=407"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:49:31","slug":"why-you-should-tarp-that-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/why-you-should-tarp-that-load\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should tarp that load!"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"<p>We hear it every day - \"I don't need to tarp my load - I'm only going a short distance!\". Well, there are good reasons why you should tarp every load, no matter how brief your travel time is.<\/p><p>Firstly, it's the law in Michigan that all loads must be secured so that debris can not fly off into the path of following vehicles\u200b or onto the roadway.<\/p><p>Another reason is that travel speeds expose your purchases to drying winds that WILL affect the foliage, maybe not while you are doing the planting, but the next day or week. Your customer is going to be on the phone to you wondering why his expensive landscaping is turning brown \u200band you might be facing at the least, a counseling session - or a possible profit-killing replacement.<\/p><div class=\"thrv_responsive_video thrv_wrapper\" data-overlay=\"0\" data-type=\"youtube\" data-embed_type=\"inline\" data-url=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/urMKI8d3LgY\" data-embeded-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urMKI8d3LgY\" data-autoplay=\"0\">\n<div class=\"tve_responsive_video_container\" style=\"display: block;\">\n<div class=\"video_overlay\"><\/div>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urMKI8d3LgY?rel=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;controls=1&amp;showinfo=1&amp;fs=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"display: block;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urMKI8d3LgY?rel=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;controls=1&amp;showinfo=1&amp;fs=1&amp;wmode=transparent\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><p>Don't be that guy! We are here with the know-how and the materials you need to secure and tarp your loads \u200bso that you can be on your way safely.<\/p><div style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"thrv_wrapper tve_image_caption\"><span class=\"tve_image_frame\"><img class=\"tve_image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 683px\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/731_8184_683.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"384\" data-attachment-id=\"409\"><\/span><\/div><div style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"thrv_wrapper tve_image_caption\"><span class=\"tve_image_frame\"><img class=\"tve_image\" alt=\"Steve Krogulecki\" style=\"width: 600px\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/krogulecki.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"175\" data-attachment-id=\"388\"><\/span><\/div>","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{"e":"1","font_cls":[]},"tcb2_ready":1,"tcb_editor_enabled":1,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[88,13,4,10,22],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-88","category-business-tips","category-hardscape","category-how-tos","category-landscaping","tag-steve-krogulecki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}