Reefer can be as goofy as flatbed

Big corporations are just as wasteful as government. It's not about what kind of entity it is, it's about how big it is.

 

MM Mars waco and Jersey were the two we did. They spoiled us with baskets of candy. I think it was rather... outrageous how much we consumed out of there... but it was fun. They were pretty strict about them trailers.

Thinking further we did runs from one in Waco to Jersey and sometimes right back. It did not make sense. But.. eh.. their loads they do what they need to I guess.

 

Well, there are a few reasons for a company making shifts that look very strange to us.

The most likely scenario to me is a company shifting product that is nearing or has passed its expiration date to a facility that will use it sooner (or dispose of it), while that facility swaps back some of the same product that can keep longer.

 

They're not "wasteful". They don't put all their eggs in one basket to insure at least some product survives in a local crisis, for one. For two, they can only have so many production lines under one roof.

 

Seeing as space heaters are expressly forbidden in the FMCSA handbook... hell that ones on the cdl test

 

I used to haul Treetop apple juice from Washington down to California, unload, reload with apple juice and take it to Las Vegas. From Las Vegas back to Washington. After some poking around I found that La was where they did their mixing, so that regardless of what type of apples or how the apples taste it, the juice always came out tasting exactly the same. Las Vegas was where they did their bottling, this was Ocean Spray and V8

 

Documenting pulp temps before leaving the shipper are real important to get out of claims

 

Not sure how. One of two things can happen at claim time at a receiver...

1. You pulped and observed the product and everything was "good" and then the product must have been allowed to go bad in-transit
2. You pulped the product and it must have been "good enough" but perhaps marginal so you accepted it

Either way bad product is going to come down to carrier responsibility 99% of the time, no matter what the driver did or didn't do at the shipping dock [if he accepted it and transported it]