Drying out a trailer

If I had to dry out a trailer, I'd be turning the temp up full and set to continuous run. If it's something that isn't sensitive to moisture, I wouldn't worry too much. Just set it for near ambient temperature and then shut it off once it gets there.

 

Does your trailer have a corrugated floor? Is the new load on pallets? If yes and yes, just make sure the drain holes aren't plugged up and it won't be an issue

 

Water has this uncanny ability to disappear when left out in the air.

 

It'll be fine. If you've been hauling meat that bled all over the floor, then there would be an issue. Warehouse would frown on that. Water, they're not going to care.

Unless they are total anal-retentive d-bags.

 

About the only time you have to worry is if your next load is paper. I would run it about 5* below the outside temperature with the doors closed of course. The unit will help pull the moisture out. I learned that trick at a paper mill after a washout and it raining outside.

Most of your moisture comes when you open the doors. A really cold trailer is like a magnet to outside moisture with the doors open. Doors closed and running down the road humidity is rather low. You ever notice when you open the doors the cold fog rolls out down along the ground? That's because the warm moist air is rushing in up top.

 

Which would be Morton Salts....they won't even load you unless your trailer is food grade sanitary clean and dry...ask me how I know

 

That's a good example. We can't have lumpy salt.