Why I hate reefer

I am pasting this from another post of mine into this relative forum since I actually didn't notice there were so many negatives to pulling a reefer until I listed most of the ones I encountered over my five years of pulling reefer. Here they are:

I hate when the reefer cuts on, rocks my whole truck like a tornado or like someone backed into me which wakes me up. I have the best sleep in the world when I have a rare dry load.

I hate when I go to an all dry load warehouse and the lumper who has never seen a reefer trailer puts 36000 weight on my drives and 28000 on the trailer since he didn't factor the extra reefer weight.

I hate when someone wakes me up at 3 am asking me to move due to my reefer.

I hate waiting at the shipper/receiver with a thousand reefers going full blast with the doors open you cant even hear yourself think.

I hate when the shipper has you precool to -10 on a 100F day which takes about two hours until you can get into a door.

I hate when your trailer has to be completely spotless clean and even proof of a washout with some anal liberal shippers.

I hate when blood is all over the floor that some washout places refuse to clean.

I hate when certain companies like Tyson ship food which is about to expire which the receiver rejects at first and after waiting hours and jumping through hoops the receiver accepts it.

I hate when I have to go on duty to just fuel my reefer since they are so strick about fueling off duty even if its just to get a little reefer fuel.

I hate Walmarts out in the middle of nowhere 200 miles away from any truck stop requiring 3/4 fuel for a live unload even though I have to sit and wait for their long appointment time.

I hate that they make the fuel pipe so small that fuel shoots out of the reefer tank when almost full while fueling.

I hate when the broker blows up my phone with voice mails because the reefer sensor sent a false report that the fuel is empty when it's full.

I hate when some fuel guages on the reefer tank wont show full unless the fuel is all the way up to the mouth of the tank.

I hate when the cap of the reefer tank falls out when you unscrew it due to the missing metal piece that slipped off the chain which is there to prevent the cap from falling.

I hate when the reefer suddenly dies and you get nervous since its loaded.

I hate when you take it to a thermoking/carrier repair shop and after a few hours they tell you they can't fix it while it's loaded.

I hate when they add temp sensors and freak out when the temp rose 2F due to a defrost cycle.

I hate when the shipper and bills show 30F continuous load and the receiver freaks out since it was supposed to be set on 29F continuous.

I hate when the reefer defrosts and gets really loud and rattles my truck.

I hate when at a busy truck stop the truck in front of me pulls up far enough to fuel my truck but I have to wait for him to leave so I can pull up to fuel my reefer.

I hate the bizarre appointment times for reefer loads like 3:26AM that delivers 11 hours away at 1400.

I hate waiting inside a freezer to checkin or pay the lumper.

So I hate reefer and I dont care if it pays $6 per mile I won't do it anymore.

 

I hear a lot of tanker guys seem to like their job. I see them sometimes standing outside for hours banging the tank with a rubber mallet though while I am in a door.