Frustrating, shippers insist on opening doors and sit at dock.

#### sure hard on the unit, doesn’t do a #### thing to cool trailer. Most don’t care not their equipment. Try to educate them.
Some trailers have switches that shut unit off when doors are opened. Use to turn loads like that down. Needless wear and tear

 

Most cold storage places do that. Won't hurt the product at all.
As a company driver, no big deal. Owner-operators can refuse any load they want to.

 

Some shippers probably want assurance unit works before loading. Lots of scam artists out there. But yeah extremely hard on the refrigeration unit

 

A lot of reefer customers now have it where they open the doors from inside the building.

 

How else are they supposed to load it? I've been to some places, don't have you open and back all the way in until they're ready.

 

Kinda need the doors open to load. That’s not the main reason. They use it to help cool the place down. Gets a little warm, go stand at the back of the screaming reefer unit. Nice and cool.

 

Non Refrigerated Warehouse Shipper/Receiver or Refrigerated Warehouse?

 

They do this because of food safety requirements at refrigerated warehouses, it isn’t hard in the reefer unit on the trailer, it just costs fuel to run it.

 

How is running the reefer an extra hour or three going to hurt it ?

and I agree, they Probabaly want to k ow it works before they load it

and take it from a guy who has Unloaded a few dry vans in August in south alabama
It gets #### hot really quick in a trailer in the summer sun ,