How is bottled water shipped to retailers?

OK so I keep seeing this warning for women not to drink bottled water that has been in a hot car. So I finally decided to just ask some experienced truckers who may have hauled bottled water if they hauled it in a refer or in a dry van. If someone could let me know I'd sure appreciate it. My husband and I did drive team for a short time, but that is one load that we didn't haul.

 

dry van
if you listen to every warning about everything
you would have to move off planet earth

 

EXACTLY as I suspected! Thanks

 

I've hauled many loads of bottled water. It was stored in a hot warehouse and not refrigerated in transit to grocery warehouses. The grocery warehouses don't refrigerate it either.

 

Thanks for the reply..........I pretty much knew that, but wanted to make sure. People just don't think things through when they read these warnings!

 

Just because of that warning which I never heard of,whats that got to do with the driver hauling it?By the time it hits the stored and customers its at room temperature.My last company almost every week my reload from Fort Worth was bottled water and we all know how hot TX gets.

 

I think you did NOT read the warning in the right way or the warning was incomplete.
My guess it that the warning is about water bottles that have been drunk from.
That may have a danger as bacteria from your mouth go in the bottle and fermet/multiply in the heat.

Water that is shipped is in sealed bottles as you know.

 

Essentially the warning says this:

The heat reacts with the chemicals
in the plastic of the bottle which releases dioxin into the water.
Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue. So please
be careful and do not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.

So I just wanted to point out to people that it's ALREADY been in a hot truck before you even BOUGHT it, so if they DO believe the warning it's already tainted before they even buy it!

 

No it's not about bacteria.......it's about toxins being released into the water from the plastic when it gets hot. But like I said above, if that is actually true it's tainted before it is ever on the shelf for sale.

 

reheating things in plastic containers hasn't killed me yet