Reefer units getting stopped in Indiana

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  1. harleymanjax

    harleymanjax Rookie Skateboarder

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    When we haul the bulk chicken loads it will leak chicken blood out of the drain holes, they are hauled in big tubs and not sealed very well as they are usually going to pet food plants.

    I stopped at a Love's one day for lunch and I had parked on a hill, when I came back out there was a river of blood flowing through the parking lot!.......................................:biggrin_25524:
     
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    THBatMan8 Road Train Member

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    That and I also know I have a problem when more than one driver gives me the ominous stare.
     
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    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    Still better than me having a leaky trailer LOL
     
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    Forget the DOT it's the recievers (ones worth a dam) that will bust you. The loads I use to pull usually had a tattle tale in the trailer. Plus the reciever would inspect the product.
     
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    I have drained a ton of chicken juice out the back!:biggrin_25514:
     
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    It's the middle of cranberry season now. people have no idea what the red stuff is coming out of my trailer. :smt048:
     
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    My family lives in Indiana and all of them keep telling me about this every time I talk to them for about the past month since I haul reefers. I couldn't figure out what DOT has to do with it either.

    As others said the receivers would be the ones to worry about.
     
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    I went to hook up a trailer the other night and JCT was sitting next to me leaking blood leaving a nice big pool where I had to stand to hook up the air lines. I climbed up on the catwalk to avoid that one lol. That's the last thing I want to track into the truck on my shoes.
     
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    Chicken Juice, Yum! :)

    I've had cats back there before licking the ground.
     
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    I leaked blood from Albany, Ga to Cincinnati.

    It pooled at the receiver, but they didn't say a word.