Do you turn off reefer right as you dock ?

You had me fooled...

 

He should get a refund, it doesn't appear to have stuck.

 

I just ask the receiver if they want it on or off. It’s their product. 90% of the time they want it off after they start opening the dock doors since the place is refrigerated anyhow.

 

Which is probably the best advice of the entire thread. Let THEM decide. If they don't tell me to turn it off, then I'm not turning it off until empty.

 

Very smart!

 

I always ask the customer what THEY want.

 

Yes, I learned from someone to do that to avoid sucking in outside air that’s different than your set point. I turn it on right after I turn it off to avoid problems or in case I get in a hurry or be a doofus and forget. It usually kicks back on as I bump the dock. I don’t turn it off completely if, AND ONLY IF, it is requested by the receiver while I have a load on the truck.

I’m sure almost everyone before me has said the same, I’m just not going to read 8 pages of replies.

 

The company I lease to specifically says we turn off the reefer once we bump the dock. I'll turnit on when I have a dry load in triple digits and backing to a dry warehouse just to be the nice guy, but out company states in policy when contracted for a load, once we bump the dock it becomes their responsibility for the load...we are only.liable for shortages overages at that point....funny enough I RARELY RARELY more than 2 hrs since they assume liability at that point per contract

 

That's surprising. Can't really hurt the reefer to run it for that time unless it's a fuel thing if you all are delivering to AWG's and the other SLOWWWW receivers often, but that would mean it probably needs to run to maintain temp for those hours anyways

Reefers run on high for days on negative temp loads already

Would think they'd rather have the paper trail til empty showing it was on and set proper until every last case is off the trailer if they ever need to pull the data for a freight claim

I know some of the fancy reefers have a door switch that automatically sets it to run on low speed when the doors open