Driving a Reefer

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by sw6g, Aug 16, 2011.

  1. chompi

    chompi Road Train Member

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    Well that about sums up this thread!
     
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  3. Sotrekker

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    So can any one tell me the main produce season for reefers? It looks to be a long one down here in AZ but what about the rest of the nation?
     
  4. Gears

    Gears Trucker Forum STAFF - Gone, But Not Forgotten.

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    I've never hauled produce....
     
  5. Emulsified

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    Produce is nearly year around. Unless you limit yourself to the pacific northwest, where it's once again the summer of green tomatos...oops...
    CA, AZ, both ship produce year round. Then there's the produce coming across the border in towns like Loredo, El Paso, Yuma, San Diego.
    Of course, spring thru fall are the best shipping times, but it pretty much goes year round.
     
  6. chompi

    chompi Road Train Member

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    Produce is year round. Just depends where you are. Is there any time of year you don't eat fruit or vegetables? Or better yet, have you ever been to walmart and not seen any produce? It doesn't fall out of the sky so it got there on a truck!
     
  7. jbatmick

    jbatmick Road Train Member

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    Great post, Mr. EMULSIFIED. There is a lot more to pulling a reefer the right way than some newer hands think.
     
  8. Mr. PlumCrazy

    Mr. PlumCrazy Road Train Member

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    Produce start in the south and works its way north. Southern climate harvest first and the harvest works north
     
  9. Smaggs

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    I pull reefer. I mostly do ice cream, loose potatoes, produce and sometimes various frozen groceries.

    Reefer is okay. The noise isn't so bad, like I thought it would be.

    My only problem is I'll be parked and asleep at a truck stop and some ####### with a dry van will park next to me and then demand I move my truck forward or backward so he can sleep. Then I look out the window and see tons of other places he could have parked. Ha.

    It's not really bad. I like it.
     
  10. Gears

    Gears Trucker Forum STAFF - Gone, But Not Forgotten.

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    That dry van driver sure has a lot of nerve!
    I've never had that happen to me and if it did, I'd point out the empty spots. You were there 1st and that's it.

    What I hate is when guys park and then go out and start up their gas fired generators that they have on their catwalks. WAY more noisy than any reefer I've been around.
     
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  11. chompi

    chompi Road Train Member

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    I wouldn't move if I was already parked. That's a little absurd! There are ways of going about it to be polite though. If a dryvan is parked with his windows open maybe you can find another spot or I would sometimes nose in so the reefer was in the back. You really can't expect peace and quiet though if you are parked in a truck stop. Kind of goes with the territory.
     
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