The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

I didn't realize you were talking about open flames. Might as well build a campfire in there!

 

I really can't see using that type of heater in any type of vehicle while it is moving.

 

A Duie Pyle! Oh man that's means you are up in the North East! Man that is some cooooolllllllddddd country up there, hmm I think I like my AZ weather better, but yeah that would make sense for weather like.

 

Cleveland, Ohio and we use road salt LOL so I guess we mine as well be north east, a little less traffic, but were not that different then they are lol! And we still have plenty of traffic LOL, I've done my share of down town stuff , there was plenty of traffic there for my liking.

A Duie Pyle has a terminal in Streetsboro, Ohio I think that's the edge of there system and as far west as they go. They interline with Midwest regional LTL carrier Dayton Freight in Valley View, Ohio.

 

I was thinking those Thermo King heaters that you see attached to the noise of the trailer on the outside of the trailer that are about half the size of a regular refer unit A Duie Pyle has some of those. I know the refer units like we have at GFS while they can and do and will blow hot air, I know there not really efficient at it and there more meant to cool then they are to heat up using them to heat up is I think and this is my personal opinion it's not based on fact, but I think using those things to heat up is hard on the unit and it's mainly built for cooling.

In the winter time when it's cold out our refer trailers do cycle on quite a bit, but it's not to keep the load cold it's to keep the cooler at 35 degrees or so to keep the stuff from freezing. So they do blow warm air I've been in one when it's cycled on and is blowing warm air.

 

One other thing I would like add as far as your question Mike is I think in Motor Cargos case they were trying to offer a service that no one else had at that time, which was the ability to do temperature control ltl shipments if needed, like one poster pointed out, Reddaway did have refers too, but I don't think they had nearly as many as MC, and as far as the rest of the competition at that time, Bestway,Viking, West ex, Action, Oak Harbor, Matheson, Nations Way,Vecta,Dats,Anderson and Sons, and even the big guys ABF,CF,Yellow and Roadway, I don't remember any of them having refers.

 

Do they ever use that red stuff back there for the roads, out here on the west coast in certain parts of northern California and Oregon they use this red stuff on the roads for ice and snow and it works really good, but they won't use it on the I 80 for Donner summit or going out east towards Salt Lake City they just use that road sand stuff for the roads.

 

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