Reefer or Van?

A reefer is a temperature controlled van used to haul mostly food products that need to be either refridgerated or frozen.

A van is just the regular enclosed trailer with no temperature controls.

LB

 

A van is a dry box and a reefer is insulated and has a refrigeration unit on the front that can either cool or heat the product being transported. They look similar expect when you look at them from the front and a van is not a really a van like a freightliner sprinter or a Pontiac Montana, at least not in the truckers vocabulary

 

Yes you can but you need to check the weight of the load as you may overgross as an empty reefer is heavier as than an empty dry van

 

Really cant help there but might want to give a little more information on what your trying to do. If your talking from an O/Os stand point or someother type of opertation

 

O/O standpoint.

Just trying to keep some good ole' boys around here on the road.

 

Really cant help you on the load boards since I dont use one but if they dont mind running all 48 states they might want to check into landstar as I hear they have alot of freight and they drivers can choose the loads. But again I dont personally use a load board so I dont have much information on them.

From my understanding you have to actually apply and register with Landstar but again I dont know alot about them except the few things I have read on the forum

 

Thank you for your input. It is greatly appreciated.