I'm a recent cdl grad and a month ago an old trucker gave me sum advice if you deal with reefers you will deal with unions the dock workers unload you when they feel like it and you have to have a lumper if not they have lumpers for hire and don't ever let 1 in your truck you will be robbed blind or left for dead and there sum loads of meat that really raise hell with the dock workers any thoughts
reefer madness
Discussion in 'Refrigerated Trucking Forum' started by riggs, Jan 1, 2015.
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who ya gona drive for ?
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We were just talking swapping stories
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Don't miss pulling a reefer, hopefully I'll never again
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well up till a year ago i hauled meat out of the pack houses in ne ia and ks into the nyc metro for 20 years and other than the taurus i totaled out in brooklyn i never had any issues so dont let people tell ya how terrible it is there ...never got robbed or had union probs .
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only dry van drivers tell tales of the horror of reefer
when I drove for Transam i believed they went to the worse DC's that no one else would
A year with a different company confirmed that not much waiting around
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Only union problems I had pulling reefers was A&P Warehouse in Edison, NJ and Fleming Foods and McDonalds Warehouse in Pennsylvania. Some drivers hated going to Jewel grocery warehouse in Chicago, but I liked it just fine and got along good with the employees there.
Over all, pulling reefers wasn't so bad. Trying at times, but made a good living.
Enjoyed selling the grocery warehouses pallets; made one or two hundred tax free dollars a week doing that.
Pulling reefers was OK really. Never had any problems with Publix or Sav-A-Lot even though some drivers did.
I'd find out how much the lumpers wanted to unload, then I'd unload it myself and pocket the money. The reefer companies I worked for didn't care.
Once you learn your way around, it's OK. Many reefer drivers wouldn't do anything else. -
I love pulling reefers. Its recession proof freight. Just because someone says it "stinks" doesn't mean it does.
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Wow guess its not that bad I've seen guys hookup to reefer power unit and use it so they wouldn't have to idle so much
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