Reefer models for frozen

Whatever you do, stay away from reefer trailers that used to belong to mega fleets and more so if that mega fleet trains new drivers. Fleet trailers have so much damage even the ones that are only a few months old. Drivers just don’t care about the trailers.

 

I remember when I was local, the company I worked for used old reefers. It was common for reefers to have problems, but again it wasn’t a big deal as all we needed to do is to return to the warehouse and put the product on 2 or more reefer box trucks.

Right now I’ve been using a new reefer trailer for a little over 1.5 years. I have only had 2 reefer problems with it. The first one was a quick fix. I was told by the TK shop to get there loaded, so they can put me on the priority list. This problem did not affect the reefer holding the temperature. It just showed as an alarm. When I got to the shop, they were done within a couple hrs. It was covered by the warranty.

The second problem happened while I had a load of ice cream (-20). The reefer turned off a couple times, and when I finally got it to turn on, it was struggling to maintain the temperature. I remember going out of route to Salt Lake City for almost 2 hrs. The problem was a bad fuel filter. This one wasn’t covered by the warranty. I paid over $500, and the reason it was pricier than normal was because they were charging after-hours hourly rate.