New owner operator/No experience

Not sure with beef honestly but thats what it is. When I was OTR all beef loads were set at -45. Fish is the same but with my salmon we keep it super cold and that keeps it in the safe range to kill parasites and make it whats called "sashimi grade" Standard for all frozen seafood. Actually if fish on a Frozen at Sea vessel like mine unloads and its not minimum -20 then my fish are rejected.

 

Fahrenheit. Even up hear in Canada most refrigerated carriers use Fahrenheit to avoid confusion.

There is the odd one that I have come across that give you the set temperature in Celsius.

 

Dude reefers only set as low as -20. Don't confuse C with F.

 

CJndaTruck sorry not being a dick but youre way off.

 

You would be fine for produce which is 35 constant if I remember and Ice Cream was -15 but meat and seafood is colder.

 

Another thing to consider is the thickness of trailer walls. Make sure the chute is intact and in good shape and if possible ask them to run it for a while. They have self defrost modes

 

Just for my curiosity I did some quick research. Or seems there are differant btu rated reefer units. Some are made just to refrigerate above freezing. Some deep freeze down to negative 50 or so, and there are many in between. The colder they get the more expensive they are, so it depends on what you plan on hauling what you buy. Also how cold it gets also depends on outside temperarure. If it's 100 and sunny obviously your not getting as cold as if it's 10 degrees outside.

 

I'm not an O/O but I'd stay away from refer. I've done my trips to a lot of supermarket DC's and SCREW THAT! If you have the money to get going and have enough to be ready for all the unexpected problems that WILL happen, more power to ya. Report back with how your making out. Also, break yourself now of saying "CDLs".

 

Snatale42 is correct in my opinion. I too thought reefer was the most consistent freight due to the"everyone has to eat theory" but after sitting at walmarts and places alike you can have those reefers.

Next company I went to I decided to try van due to my new theory haha theories theories right! Anyway it worked out and only way I woukd go back to reefer is for big $ if not no way. Plus look around you now wherever you may be and think about it a little. Everything you use comes on a truck even the freighliner seat youre sitting on reading this so to think reefer is smart for that reason doesnt really make sense.