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Reefer Floor styles

Discussion in 'Refrigerated Trucking Forum' started by Midwest Trucker, Oct 10, 2020.

  1. Oct 10, 2020 #1
    Midwest Trucker

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    Why are some floors flat and others have the deep grooves? What is that all about?
     
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  3. Oct 10, 2020 #2
    wichris

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    Floor loaded air flow.
     
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  4. Oct 10, 2020 #3
    Midwest Trucker

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    Ahh ok, so is there any disadvantage to the groove type? I do see some flat floors but by and large groove. What about advantage to flat floors?
     
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  5. Oct 10, 2020 #4
    wichris

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    Flat floors are good for LTL. Move a hand pallet jack around on a duct floor. If everything you haul is on pallets, never racks or floor, they're fine. Steep dock and frozen the forklift slides around on a flat floor.
     
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  7. Oct 10, 2020 #5
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    Thank you
     
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  8. Oct 10, 2020 #6
    Brettj3876

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    The grooved floors give a lot more traction for food service companies
     
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  9. Oct 11, 2020 #7
    88 Alpha

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    I've actually wondered about this myself.

    Most of our trailers have roll-up doors and all of them have the flat floors with no air chutes on the ceiling. Our swinging-door trailers all have grooved floors.

    95% of our loads are -10* and go from the kill plants to the freezer warehouse, the other 5% are 26* and are plant-to-plant transfers.

    The explanations provided in this thread make a lot of sense why our roll-up door trailers don't have grooved floors.
     
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  10. Oct 11, 2020 #8
    lilillill

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    Corrugated (grooved) floors are for iced loads (meat, produce). It provides a pathway for melt water to get to the drain holes.

    Flat floor reefers are typically used by grocery warehouses for transfer of dry chill or frozen groceries.
     
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  11. Oct 11, 2020 #9
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    Corrugated floors are for air flow and drainage, especially if you have a floor load. They are more difficult to sweep out, and don't hold up as well as flat floors.
    Flat floors are approximately 500 pounds heavier, they last longer, and are easy to sweep out.

    My old trailer had a Corrugated floor, my new trailer is a flat floor and I love it.
     
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