New to Reefer, tips?

Words of wisdom! That's the problem. You can unload it but you still gonna have to wait for them to count it.
F it! Call for check and take a nap.

 

unless you want a work out that will give you a good nights sleep.

 

Just think of all the money you'll save buying flip-flops and sweatpants instead of boots and jeans! (j/k)

 

Here's a reefer tip. Salinas CA really sucks. In every possible way.

 

Yep, Yuma in the winter, and Salinas in the summer. LOL

 

I like my style of reefer ... we just don't do any produce, period outside of an occasional one-drop load of retail potatoes and/or onions.

 

I've worked a reefer for the last year and love it. No fresh food, only cased wine, barreled wine and keg beer. Reefer set at 55 so it doesn't run constantly or much at all. No wash outs and best of all no lumpers. Going to get my authority and my own truck soon so I can work with the customers I've met at this job.

 

We work with a wine shipment consolidator near the California wine country that is great to work for. They have the load configuration down to a science. You'll be within a few hundred pounds of 80k but if you set your trailer tandems at the 40' California setting, you'll be perfectly distributed 9 out of 10 times, and having the nearby scales is costly at $18 but beats heading across the Fairfield super coops not sure.

Just this past Friday, I arrived at the nearby chocolate place to unload at 13:30 for a 14:00 appt. at 14:15 I had signed bills. AT 14:20 I arrive at the wine place. At 14:35 I'm leaving the wine place loaded. (They had 2 loaders loading 2 pallets at a time) At 14:45 I'm calling the wine place with my weight and that all is good and they can go home. It was Friday, and I was the last truck and they were waiting on me to arrive to load. Wish every day was like that, but at least some are.

 

Yep, there are some great wine shippers around Napa, primarily in American Canyon. You mentioned the $18 scale cost, that sounds like Western 125 in American Canyon. Biagi, Western and JF Hillerbrand in Benicia are my main pick up locations. The weigh station at Cordelia is a royal pain in the butt.