#### onions

Ask @Skateboard. IIRC he used to specialize in onions. I think they paid by the ton and he loaded the cab too........you can't make this stuff up

 

Lol...

"Hello, shop... Ya, I need a bunk installed in my sleeper"

"a bunk? But your not a trainer or team??" "do you have a student?"

"student?? No, I'm specialized in onions"

 

I've pulled a few onion loads out of New Mexico. My paper work said in bold red text.... DO NOT GET WET.

I took a load to Fla and 2 loads to Mich. Both times I coverex the top and sides and left the rear open at the halfway mark. Just used a strap to hold the tarp up. This was in dead of the heat.. hot August. Flies all over the place when I got loaded and secured them. Thousands of them swarming and annoying me to no end.

But I had no problems keeping the load covered and open in the back. That way if it rained.. at most they might get a little drizzle in there from the road spray.

Hurst

 

When I haul them I leave the front open to allow circulation(rain or shine as I have a headache on my trailer). I leave the sides down all the way(rain or shine) and just don't bungee them as tight. The rear is the only one that I open and close. Delana farms out above Bakersfield requires that you haul them this way so I stuck to that and haven't had any issue. The cooking is an issue if you sit still for hours at a time. From what I know if they get soaked heavy and then get warm again they will start to develop a greenish looking mold/ fungus

 

Onions go in Reefers.

 

That explains all the reefer flats I see running across idaho with onions strapped to the deck.

 

Those would be vented flats.

 

Most reefer guys start getting bucky after anything past 43500lbs and shipper wouldnt get 4500lbs shipped for free. I pull both flat and reefer and you will never see a load of onions on my flat but then i dont haul them in reefer as they pay to low get better rate hauling tators. But then i dont haul lumber or steel in my reefer either.