Bulk potatoes

Frio still does outside Phoenix, been to farms loading like above.

 

Potatoes. If you did not load in Idaho you are not hauling potatoes. No wonder your trailer is all mucked up! I can remember hauling spuds. That way a long time ago. A load is a load. Some of the nicest people you will ever meet come from Idaho.

 

Yeah, I wasn't super impressed with the folks I met in southern Colorado. Wait to load, drive across town 2X for doc's & weight tags, etc.

 

I was behind a guy at a Blue Beacon a year or so ago, I think they said they charged him $120 to get all the butchered, mashed potatoes washed out and shoveled to the dumpster. It was a typical corrugated reefer floor.

 

I've hauled many bulk potato loads in the past out of ND. and back than I carried a broom handle that you could slide in the ribs of the floor and get the potato chunks out of the floor and than get them to the back of the trailer. It didn't take all that long. The down fall was getting the trailer washed out afterwards.

 

I've pulled sweet potatoes out of MS to drop at Gerber Foods. They use a bobcat with a bucket on the front to scoop the potatoes out. Unfortunately they leave a lot behind and firmly wedge them into the floor. I apologized to the washout guys and set my refeer to 50 degrees so they wouldn't sweat to death digging those potatoes out.

 

I've loaded ping pong balls this way, but you better be ready to catch them when the doors open!

 

That's a product I would not expect to be floor loaded. I wonder how many fit. A million maybe?

 

Whats a load of those weight. Like 500 pounds?? Lol

 

I used to haul alot of bulk on the floor spuds out of ND and MN years ago that went to chipping plants in Chicago and the East coast.
Yes it made a mess out of the trailer but they paid on the weight and paid very well .
People were loading way over gross and that came to an end when some one laid a load over on 94 in Wisc and when they opened the trailer it was discovered he had 2 loads .
Soon after MN and nd were in those potato houses auditing scale tickets and some big fines were paid .
.. Party was over lol