Food Grade Versus Sheet and Plate 53' van

I don't even know. I'll tape it in the morning and see. It's only been an issue a few times over the past 7 or 8 years. Most recently where a plate van was required for a load of new, empty plastic coke bottles bound for a bottling plant. With superlight loads they will cube out a plate trailer with that extra inch or whatever it is but it won't fit in a sheet and post unit.

And to be technical about it my sheet and post trailer isn't technically food grade by the manufacturer's definition of that. A food grade dry van has aluminum floors and a metal interior with absolutely no wood inside of it. How many of you have ever seen a van like that? I never have. It would be useless for most of us hauling general freight including most dry grocery loads.

As far as shippers and receivers are concerned food grade simply means "clean, swept out, no sign of any insects, no daylight coming thru any holes, and no odors". They might reject plywood lined walls, probably only rarely, but most of them only care that the trailer is clean.