Reefer floor repair

Discussion in 'Refrigerated Trucking Forum' started by TCF, Mar 16, 2022.

  1. bad-luck

    bad-luck Road Train Member

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    I understood that you were only responsible for the trailer not the reefer. Good luck, hope things turn in the right direction for you.
     
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  3. EverLuc

    EverLuc Light Load Member

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    We never got photos of the cracked floor.
     
  4. TCF

    TCF Light Load Member

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    I'm still in a dock trying to be unloaded... Been here since 6?
     
  5. MRMTRANS

    MRMTRANS Medium Load Member

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    On an old trailer I no longer have, I had carriage bolts installed when repairing cracks to get rid some flex on the floor near them. If they are at the edge where the dock plate sits, you should be able to weld plates adjoining the floor to the edge of the trailer. My current Utility 3000R has them.
     
  6. TCF

    TCF Light Load Member

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    No welding equipment.
    No experience.
    No knowledge.
    Not able to afford that.
     
  7. TCF

    TCF Light Load Member

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    Hope this works.
    #1, 2, 3
    The spot I was talking about near the back.
    #4.... Brand new one I got yesterday when they took 7 hours to unload 17 skids.. You can see it's nice and shiny..

    #5, 6 harder to see but about 7 to 10 feet from the nose... Hairline cracking and 2 holes in the channels.

    That hairline cracking is why I thought about braising rods in the first place.
     

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  8. TCF

    TCF Light Load Member

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    Except for the new hole they put in it yesterday..
    That damage has been just about exactly the same for the year I've been using the box except a but more of the insulation is missing from in the ridges there.

    And the cuts all along the walls which where terribly repaired are falling apart.
     
  9. EverLuc

    EverLuc Light Load Member

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    I would like to know how these occurred.
     
  10. TCF

    TCF Light Load Member

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    Most of that damage was there before I started using the box.

    The new one from yesterday? I have no idea... Bad shipper bad receiver...

    Old stressed metal? Degrading from years of abuse and acid washing?
     
  11. TCF

    TCF Light Load Member

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    According to the registration paperwork I found in it last year it has traded hands 4 times in the last 3 yrs up until last year.
    Last one was a rental/lease company if I'm not mistaken.

    Lots more damage (doors, the rame rail was broken and had to be welded when I started using it. Etc.)

    Don't think I'll ever know how any of it actually happened?
     
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