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Hauling Fresh Chicken For the First Time- Question

Discussion in 'Refrigerated Trucking Forum' started by MercuryLine, Oct 26, 2019.

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  1. Oct 26, 2019 #11
    25(2)+2

    25(2)+2 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    They're called combos where I haul from. Replaced alot of swinging beef using them.

    There's a plant we send swinging to yet, or again, and they own the trailers for it.

    I got to pull a load or 2 when the regular truck broke down. They put the trolleys in one of those gaylords when they haul them back.
     
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  3. Oct 26, 2019 #12
    88 Alpha

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    I haul chickens every day. For us, it's always drop and hook, as we are dedicated to the shipper. Most of the time, our loads are set on 26* and you will have "chicken juice". Avoid stepping in the juice, that stuff will stink up a cab in a heartbeat.

    Occasionally, we haul the loads at -10* but those go directly to a freezer warehouse. No juice on those loads.

    In the summer, the chicken plants have an exceptionally nice odor.... and flies, LOTS of flies.

    The plant I mostly haul out of requires 2 load locks and a padlock. If you don't have them, the shipping office is kind enough to sell you those items at a greatly exaggerated mark-up in price, so you certainly want to have those items in your possession prior to showing up.
     
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  4. Oct 26, 2019 #13
    Farmerbob1

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    Also note that if the weather is above freezing, you should leave that reefer running at 50 degrees or so, (start/stop mode) after a meat load if you are not immediately going to get another load.

    No washout is perfect, and it takes very little meat or blood at 90 degrees with no air circulation to create a godawful stink that can get you rejected at a shipper.
     
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  5. Oct 26, 2019 #14
    D.Tibbitt

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    I sure am glad i dont pull a reefer
     
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  7. Oct 27, 2019 #15
    MercuryLine

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    The stench is something unbelievable! We were also required to have 2 load locks and a padlock so didn't have to buy anything form the shipper thankfully.
     
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  8. Oct 27, 2019 #16
    MercuryLine

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    Noted-thanks! Straight to the washout from the receiver!
     
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  9. Oct 27, 2019 #18
    Concorde

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    Funky smell?
    Lol, last New Year’s Eve I picked up a load of fresh fish in Newport News. Delivered a few hours later but waited until late on the 2nd to get a washout.

    Words cannot describe how awful it smelled after two days of the reefer being off and parked in the sun...I almost puked!

    I bet that trailer still stinks today!!
     
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  10. Oct 27, 2019 #18
    Farmerbob1

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    Even after the first washout, post-fresh-meat, you should keep that reefer running at 50F or below until you drop it, or change temp for the next shipper.

    After a couple washouts, post-fresh-meat, your trailer probably has had enough blood, fat, and meat bits washed out of the trailer to let it stay unrefrigerated for a while.
     
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  11. Oct 27, 2019 #19
    I glide 47

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    That's not chicken parts it's chicken pharts
     
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  12. Nov 6, 2019 #20
    SteveScott

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    Rotting chicken has to be one of the worst smells on the planet. My brother and I when we were teenagers would play practical jokes on one another. He once put a bag of well used kitty litter under my car seat on a very hot day. My payback was to put a raw chicken back under his seat when I knew I wouldn't be driving for a few days. Upon his return, he opened the door and threw up from the stench.
     
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