--- title: Curtainside Trailer Blog by Roland Curtains | Tarping description: Tarping | Are you looking to learn more about Curtainside Trailers and other areas of the Trucking Industry? Then Please read a few of these articles. --- [![Roland Curtains - Curtainside Solutions Engineered To Lighten Your Load](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Website_Design_5-11-15/roland-curtains-web-logo.gif?width=230&height=40&name=roland-curtains-web-logo.gif "Roland Curtains - Curtainside Solutions Engineered To Lighten Your Load")](https://www.rolandcurtains.com) 817.607.0080 817.607.0080 # CURTAINSIDE TRAILER BLOG [![](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/hubfs/Website_Design_5-11-15/Products/Curtainside-Conversions/Specialty-Products/Screen_Shot_2015-08-25_at_3.30.16_PM.png) ](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/reducing-injury-risk-for-your-drivers) ## [Reducing Injury Risk for Your Drivers](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/reducing-injury-risk-for-your-drivers) [fa icon="calendar'] Jan 14, 2016 9:00:00 AM / by [Pete Johnson](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/author/pete-johnson) posted in [Fleet Managers](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/topic/fleet-managers), [Tarping](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/topic/tarping), [Safety](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/topic/safety) [[fa icon="comment"] 0 Comments](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/reducing-injury-risk-for-your-drivers#comments-listing) Truck drivers have an on-the-job injury risk that's about three times that of employees in other industries. Roadway accidents account for 25% of driver injuries due to the risks of other drivers, bad weather, and unsafe road conditions. Yet many trucking injuries occur when the truck is standing still and the driver isn’t even behind the wheel. The most common injuries are slips, trips and falls; or struck with shifting freight or moving equipment like forklifts. 8% of trucking injuries that result in worker's compensation claims are related to tarping loads on flatbeds. [Read More [fa icon="long-arrow-right"]](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/reducing-injury-risk-for-your-drivers) [![](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/hubfs/Blog_Photos/2015/tarped-flatbed-trailer.jpg) ](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/3-reasons-to-stop-tarping) ## [3 Reasons to Stop Tarping](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/3-reasons-to-stop-tarping) [fa icon="calendar'] Oct 27, 2015 9:00:00 AM / by [Pete Johnson](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/author/pete-johnson) posted in [Curtainside Trailers](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/topic/curtainside-trailers), [Tarping](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/topic/tarping) [[fa icon="comment"] 0 Comments](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/3-reasons-to-stop-tarping#comments-listing) ## Tarping is both an art and an ordeal.  Since it's required for much of the freight hauled by a flatbed, most experienced drivers refine their own creative tarping techniques to get the job done as efficiently as possible. Still tarping is, and always has been, an arduous and even dangerous job that most drivers—and their managers—learn to dread. The challenge of tarping is, in fact, why experienced flatbed drivers typically command higher pay than their colleagues in pulling dry-vans where the process isn't required. 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