need an advise with reefer

IMO, I never had one but it seems like if you were on an inclined dock with a wet floor the forklift might have a hard time. Plus if you haul meat you need drainage or the pallets would get saturated at times.

 

Flat floors are my preferred choice by far. They are about 1000 times easier to sweep and wash out. And from my experience, they hold up better over time. Of course someone else will say the opposite, but I will never buy another duct floor, only flat for me!

I have 3 of each, and my flat floors have even held up much better.

 

Flat floors are good when you only haul palletized loads. If by chance you ever haul meat sometimes they load it on the floor, can't have a flat floor for that. Would have no way to recirculate the air.

 

Some places will not load a flat floor trailer. Produce shippers, boxed meat not on pallets, etc. No air circulation. I think those flat floor reefers were used for ice cream shipments at first. From what I have seen, they do seem to hold up to fork-lift traffic better than duct floors, but I would not buy one.

 

I prefer ducted floors for meat and frozen loads due to the air circulation being much better with a ducted floor. For produce and other goods a flat floor is fine and MUCH easier to clean and maintain.