Stuck between Great Dane or utility dry van, your opinion?

If your wood floor is perfect, no nails sticking up, nothing to rip boxes of chips etc nothing flawed in the floor, edges of walls around the floor etc. The food wont get hurt.

I have not been inside a dry van in I think about 28 years. But I can tell you we have hauled what i consider sodas, dogfood, snack food junk food essentially. Nothing like that which goes into a reefer. My issue right here and now is Ive been around clean reefers too freaking long, it's like asking me to grow spots to be a leopard. Its impossible.

Food to me is oh National in Liberal OK, 550 cases of Beef... or... Kraft Cheese. Or... MM MArs candy. Oh are they particular.. whooee. Kick me out to get a trailer wash a few times in waco. So it's ingrained.

Reefer can do dry van. Just's not loaded with food and hazmat. er... not that it aint been done but once or twice the shipper of paint for instance wrapped the hell out of it. So that end is 60 degrees in the front bulkhead and the aft end with food was on it's LTL chiller at 30. So no issues that time.

 

Wood floor is fine. Wood walls probably would not be fine. Your right it’s mostly about clean, no odor, no leaks, holes, swept out, etc.

 

Does that Dane have composite/plastic walls between the E-track? Mine does but wood up front like that one. No plywood in ceiling, just metal.

I have not seen many with composite wall panels like mine.

 

Agree. When I was at Swift I remember they would use any trailer they had to haul a load requiring a food grade trailer. I would carry some kind of hazmat one day, and empty cans the next. You just had to carry a broom and sweep it real good before showing up at the shipper.

There were some loads that were only to be serviced by Duraplate (Wabash) trailers though. And the paper companies had a restriction on the age of the trailer they would load.

I can't remember ever seeing a "food grade" requirement on any Landstar postings. Sometimes they will ask for the trailer to be swept clean, but that's it.

 

Wabash. Bingo. Cleared a cobweb from my attic of memories.

 

You have a tire off it's wheel. Or two tires off the same wheel.

Dent scrape in the right side tells me a tree liked the trailer. Routine. Main thing is rivets are ok.

That trailer has worked hard but nothing jumped out at me. It seems ready for more battle but will want some TLC.

CASH always no loans, no debt no interest. you own it outright.

Sometimes banks to current owner may have been telling him not to pay off the loan to preserve their interest income stream in this very difficult and almost impossible situation on that end.

 

I wouldnt pay more then 18k.