Plugs for floor holes?

Discussion in 'Refrigerated Trucking Forum' started by gokiddogo, Sep 3, 2012.

  1. CondoCruiser

    CondoCruiser The Legend

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    Depending how long your trip is it's normal to lose up to 1000 lbs due to evaporation and drippage on a produce load. There is no sense plugging the holes. You don't want excess humidity building up in the trailer. And most likely you are heavy and can use the extra room for fuel.

    The loads that do need plugged like meat and deep frozen items the shipper will supply cork plugs and plug the holes prior to loading.
     
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  3. aiwiron

    aiwiron Road Train Member

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    LOL they can plug your cork hole ROFL
     
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  4. Winkjr

    Winkjr Road Train Member

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    I never heard that about the deep frozen loads and Our product is -10 so I know our company doesn't require this. Do those plugs help with getting your trailer down to temp. Summertime is brutal on my unit it reaches -10 only at night. I just learned something new today.
     
  5. aiwiron

    aiwiron Road Train Member

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    Yep sure do help
     
  6. Taildragon

    Taildragon Heavy Load Member

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    Good point Condo, I had forgotten about that, I also had forgotten about the ice pack chickens, if it would have been that, you wouldn't even want that gunk giving you a bath.
     
  7. Winkjr

    Winkjr Road Train Member

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    Besides those ones earlier in the thread where else do I get them?
     
  8. aiwiron

    aiwiron Road Train Member

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    You can buy large cork plugs, if you have water pressure or other fluid pressure just get a hose clamp and place it out side the drain hose.

    If I was to plug a hose would be mandatory, even the coldest can get condensation and in the hose it hardly ever freezes shut. Now door seals can.
     
  9. Taildragon

    Taildragon Heavy Load Member

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    Your neighbor hood hardware store will sell corks, just measure the hole to see what size you need, corks used to be really cheap.
     
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  10. Taildragon

    Taildragon Heavy Load Member

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    Condo Cruiser is right, so just keep in mind you are going to be dealing with more humidity in the trailer, so proceed accordingly.
     
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  11. 25(2)+2

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    The shipper would plug the holes with corks on banana loads during the winter to keep a cold draft from discoloring the bananas. They also centered them in the trailer so they weren't touching the walls.

    I have a bunch of corks that I removed from trailers, you don't want the excess moisture from washouts to all have to evaporate. I personally have never run a reefer lower than 0, but if the duckbill drains are missing from the bottom of the drain holes, you can see fog below them on a humid day even set at or just below freezing.
     
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