Tent & Tarp was established in Durban in 1986 by Geoff Preston who continues to run and manage the business today. In 2001 the company opened a second branch in Gauteng to meet the ever increasing demands of clients in this part of the country, as well as to provide local support for Reef clients.
The Gauteng branch is managed by Chris Johnson who has over 20 years experience in the trailer industry.

Tent & Tarp specialises in the manufacture and repair of curtain siders and tarpaulins for standard & specialised trailers. We are the only RMI approved agents in the tarpaulin industry in South Africa.

We believe in working as a team with our clients to provide the most effective system for each individual client, based on their needs. Constant innovations have lead us to manufacturing products that are user-friendly & strongly reinforced in the right places, thereby ensuring long-term cost efficiency and reliability. Once such recent innovation was the development of a load restraint system which dramatically increases the longevity of our product due to a unique tensioning system. We are constantly examining new ways and putting measures into place to increase driver safety and thereby cost-efficiency for our clients.

We believe in manufacturing products of consistent quality that our clients have come to rely on, and follow this up with personalised, fast-response back-up service, as we understand the level of urgency involved from the client's side when their trucks are out of action. To this end we have established mobile repair teams which are fully self-sufficient and are able to go to the remotest areas to make repairs to our client's trailers.

Some of our clients include:
Illovo Sugar, SA Truck Bodies, Afro Trailers, Henred Fruehauf, Unicorn Lines, SAPPI, NMP Bodies, Busaf, Tongaat-Hulletts Group, Transnational Freightlink, Supergroup, SAB & Aquelle.

We look forward to being of service to you.