Flat floor reefer vs Grooved floor reefer

You can't "floor load" perishables like bulk potatoes without a corrugated floor that allows return air to flow underneath the cargo back to the refrigeration system [which pulls return air off the floor]. Otherwise pallets solve said problem as long as they are all loaded "straight in" and not sideways.

 

The fluted floors is very so important to reefer work. Air circulates in that box at whatever temperature you set them at from -30 all the way to heating at 90 in wintertime for things that cold will affect like paint. (Yes you can heat a reefer load.. not too often...)

STexan said it best.

By the way you really don't want a floor load in a reefer, it's a massive amount of time lost in unloading.

 

Grooved reefer floors are a PITA to sweep out. That is the extent of my knowledge of reefer floors and that is more than I want to know about them.

 

Not too bad when you use a cordless leaf blower!

 

Unless it's wet. Then it sucks.

 

One of the reasons that IBB used to require a wash out before they would load a trailer. Probably still do, but I haven't hauled a reefer since 1999.

 

I had a broom cut like the floor for sweeping out. If the load required a washout i just got a washout.

Grooved floors only.

 

get the flat floor. thats all we had for the last 15+ years. we loaded pallets sideways down both sides and ran to florida and texas and south west never a temp issue. we had 50+ of em on the road every week for several years.

 

A nice fat bristled broom about 3 feet wide and several inches deep. A gallon of coffee grounds tossed all over the trailer floor, wait a bit. Sweep front to back done.

Today's battery operated tools offer oppertunities to do this work very rapidly such as a big blower.