Question about watermelons

Yes for cool down ,no for spoil easy, get them to destination asap good luck

 

Should be fine, I hauled a load of water melons 1000 miles in a vented dry van, no one questioned it.

 

did you not pre cool trailer. are your corners plugged

 

Fresh produce carries a lot of field heat. Reefers are intended to maintain temps, and won't pull it down quickly. Melons aren't that temp critical, you'll be fine, as long as they weren't loaded wet. I hauled many with just a vented dry van and hay on the floor.

Field heat loads will fret the new guy. He'll wonder why the therm aint droppin, reefer's runnin full bore. Well, it's froze up. Keep hitting the defrost cycle ever so often & keep truckin....

 

Don’t worry, If things go wrong you just open a road side stand......:-/

 

Loaded them off the field on a 104 degree day into a vented dry van. Took the load from south of Phoenix all the way to Calgary.
Two nights on the road, the trailer sweated pretty bad.
When I opened the doors at Calgary, the heat inside the trailer was impressive. A couple of broken watermelons had lots of mold. Went directly into two grocery stores I stopped at.
Some of the skids they put directly on the sales floor.
Didn't have any problems.

 

You never passed one of these side-of-the-road stands selling these things? There is no reefer in the back of a 85 chevy.

 

Watermelons retain heat , it takes a long time to bring the temperature down. Especially since they usually are coming from the field and or a hot warehouse.
The second questions answer is no. You han also haul them in a dry van, as long as it has a vent in the front and rear