I will let you guys know if I get 3000 a week doing reefer, for sure. I have my doubts, but if it's drop and hook I could see it. Trailer washes and all. We shall see. Thanks yall.
Any advice for a new reefer driver
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Robert Eroica Dupea, Dec 22, 2018.
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the most beautiful sight is when you pull into a produce shed in Salinas or Yuma and there's 150 trucks parked in a dirt lot with their units on high trying to cool down waiting for their loads "to cool". There's nothing to eat, maybe a vending machine that the supplier forgot to replenish yesterday and the restroom is an outhouse. Oh yeah, Then while you wait with your CB on channel 29 waiting to be called to a door, and the next morning nothing's changed, you will re-think your decision to get into trucking ! ! !
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Yeah be prepared to scale a lot and sit a lot. Reworking freight and slow workers and dealing with Comchecks. I don’t think I would pull reefer if I went back over the road. I did it for a year I would rather run dry freight or tanker
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One word of advice, the refer unit will always break down late at night and on weekends and holidays.Robert Eroica Dupea, akfisher and x1Heavy Thank this. -
Remember to pre-cool and record temperatures of perishables . Take pictures of product , watch the loading process until to you get a handle on what is going on. Always get the name of the shipping and receiving clerks and keep them in a notebook. Put stars next to their names and grade them and the facilities they work at. Check out the website below for temperature guidelines . Always read the bill before signing for the load and after delivery. Good luck.
https://www.producebluebook.com/wp-content/uploads/PDFs/Temperature Guidelines & Ethylene Sensitivity.pdfRobert Eroica Dupea Thanks this. -
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Only 2 truck stops in Salinas. Dunno how it’s possible for all of that produce coming out. Rumor is they are going to be building a Loves soon.
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I had this very issue, and my company had my back the whole time. Most of the freight was rejected due to product not being at the correct temp when lumper guy began unloading.Robert Eroica Dupea Thanks this. -
But I get your point. Walmart is bad to go in with a frozen load. You can't leave unit off because it may take so long, and conversely, running the unit for that long raises the box temp. So you run risks either way. But at least if it's running, you can put the blame on them for taking too long, which they will combat with "your unit doesn't cool well enough". But I've never had a load rejected because long delays and thawing, but you can always see the effects of this when you go to the grocery story and buy frozen foods with weakened cardboard boxes that obviously sweated considerably, somewhere, sometime.Robert Eroica Dupea Thanks this.
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