Hauling Ice Cream

What happened is the Fleming Foods employee was awarded a gold coin and letter of appreciation for saving the company so much money. In other words, it was covered up with a gold coin, a wink, and a nod.
When Fleming Foods went bankrupt, it was a happy day for thousands of OTR drivers, including me.

 

I ran reefers for around a year never had any trouble that story about someone cutting fuel lines is concerning i'd love to know what the motivation behind that is? I mean we all need cold produce someone has to transport it which means running a fridge motor until they can come with a silent one.

 

I had a guy squawk at me once because I parked a reefer in his 'flatbed row'. ?? I can sleep as easy with a reefer as a flat. Too many whiners

 

I love when people say something to me when I'm the first parked. I haul chocolate tanks and sometimes the weather isn't right and I have to idle the tractor because the coolant from the engine keeps the load hot. It's also a free pass in the no idle states during the winter. Haha

 

Ice cream loads should be higher paying loads for the obvious extra risk and fact that the reefer must run colder than most. They will most always tell you to be precooled to -20 upon arrival or be waiting. I find loads for a reefer company and usually get happy when I hear "can you haul ice cream?". Definitely better than the average for rates lately. Sikeston MO has a plant we've been to frequently, but they can be a pain if you're a "work in", vs appt.

 

Same here... My response was something along the lines of: I can sleep just fine with it hitched to my truck. You want to cry about it being in the general vicinity of you? You must be the most p-ussy-a-ss crybaby to ever grace the roads. Now go back in your sleeper and suck on your mom's teets.

Strangely didn't hear anything more from him, but did get a few chuckles out of the radio.

 

We just had a similar issue but with ice cream. The reciever rejected load said to soft. All this day before new years and we werw stuckthe weekend after we sat there for 3 days holding onto load for them after they wouldn't receive us after being a hour late meanwhile broker was to be calling them to tell them we would be a hour late. Broker said it is fine head over so we did.
They said ice cream was at 16 degrees when our reefer was set -10 we know our reefer isn't that off. The thing with these frozen loads is they make you open Your doors and back up to dock and this can be anywhere from 5-30 minutes so did they check reefer temp after doors were open.
And it is to old of a reefer to print a report on so now a claim has been filled and we kept the ice cream so now what do we do with 26,000 lbs of ice cream???

 

The receivers do that trying to get a discount from the shipper. It's an old trick. Ice cream is expensive, so the profits are higher if the customer lies and says the ice cream is soft but they'll take it anyway if the price is lowered. Many grocery warehouses do this to ice cream and produce.

 

Ques: was a Temp control recorder inside the Trailer Box or does your Reefer Unit able to make a print out of the Temperature over the ice cream Load period?

Each of these will refute claims labeled by Receiver against the Carrier.