Riding with Food Haulers-advice?

Because they'd be on TV/film, of course.

 

I think you will have a hard time, maybe sit for awhile given the insurance regs and lack of owner operators that carry food and are willing to let you ride.

I would let you ride, but I don't haul food. Just liquid waste and food waste.

 

Pardon my ignorance, put what is/are Urban Farms?

 

Yeah riding with is tricky but normaly just need permission from company. Your best bet is to hang out at a bigger truck stops and just start interviewing drivers. But truly its not difficult to figure out. I haul candy to california and produce back. Most produce shippers are larger companies that have docks. Whatever the product is gets stacked on pallets loaded and secured in the trailer, then delivered to a tranfer warehouse in the city. Transfer warehouse puts it on local trucks then delivered to stores. product is cleanly handle and travels alot of miles before it hits ur mouth. Goodluck with ur project.

 

You might catch a ride with an owner/operator. But most companies forbid riders because of insurance regs. But with an insurance waiver, kids and wives can ride.

Whatcha wanna know? I been a produce hauler over five years and am now a meat hauler over two years. Both you have minimum time to deliver because of shelf life and have to be a runner to be successful.

Animals walk in one end and come out boxed on the other end. Nothing is wasted.
Fruits and vegetables, you chase the stuff by the season and area. Each product has it's temperature requirements and must be maintained.
Most customers have distribution centers except the small mom and pops and farmer markets. Frozen and canned/boxed goods can bounce around warehouses before they meet the final store. Most of the time nobody wants a whole truck load of one item but one warehouse will get it and branch it out in smaller quantities to other warehouses. That's known as cross docking. You'll see dry storage warehouses and cold storage warehouses or a facility with both.



CUT CUT... Take 10

 

After the ficaso that happened years ago with NBC on the day pin head blew up the Fed Building in OKC you'll do good to get a driver to allow you in the truck unless he wasn't driving back then and doewsn't know the story!

What happened with that deal was this idiot filming crew had to have "perfet lighting conditions, retakes and all the crapola that goes along with makeing a FILM not news! When oit was all done and over with this "story" turned into a "cheating on the log book story" and the owner of the small company had a freakinh heart attack over the deal what with all the adverse news and DOT attenation!" I havent watched NBC since! But if you get someone to let you ride along it'll be a wonder!

You'd do best to sit around around a poultry, beef, or produce plant with a CB and talk to the drivers there and get the start of the story there and then ask if you can follow him to his destination in your own ride. You'll need to drive in his schedule which means you eat when he does, sleeps and pees when he does. And gets there on his schedule and screw the lighting and retakes!

You really want to know about hauling food it's all over this forum! All the nightmares to wonder stories are in here!