Reefer vs. Dryvan

That would suck lol.
Only ever had a few Cases here and there.
And always able to keep them.

Dry load but in a Reefer had like 6 cases of Apple Juice rejected.
One was leaking cases got wet. Took it all home. Like 20+ gallons of apple juice.
Apple juice for a few months for my daughter.

Most I got was like 20 or 30 small boxes of Popsicles. (2 layers). I gave most of those away.

 

With reefer it was common for me to get to keep several cases of choclate candy, yogurt, cheese, tv dinners, meat.

 

Yup. I've never had an entire load refused, but it was almost always a full pallet or more. It either went to a food bank or back to the shipper. Either way, I'd end up sitting for a few hours while the "powers that be" would decide what to do with it and where to send me. It was just one of the headaches of reefer I didn't like.

 

Not too big a deal from my standpoint as the driver. The rejected loads werent because of anything we did and they paid for both ways. Each were relatively short hauls too, under 400 miles. One was an entire load of potatoes rejected by the receiver for showing signs of decay. The more likely scenario is the grocery wharehouse didn't need more potatoes. They went back to the shed I picked them up from. The other was some frozen appetizers that if I recall we're short dated. I think it was 11 out of 15 pallets were sent back. They had me haul them to a cold storage facility.

 

What about guys like josh Van wagoner or Kevin House? Look them up on Facebook and BigRig Videos on YouTube. They do multi pick multi stop reefer loads.

 

What about them?

 

Someone else posted on here that it depends on what you haul in the reefer and who you work for. I haul reefers for Swift and I've never had a problem with anything but the long unloads. And what I haul in the reefer varies alot. The thing is, the waiting doesn't bother me most of the time since I log sleeper berth. I can only run 70 hrs in 8 days anyways unless I take a 34-hr reset, so it's really just a matter of whether I'm waiting at a truck stop or at a customer. Most of my runs are pretty long too.

 

Imagine sitting in line at a blue beacon for an hour or two waiting on a washout for free. That's either before or after you got rejected because it smelled funny or the customer just rejects every trailer that hasn't been washed. Bottom line for me is reefer freight isn't worth the time for the money.

 

It most certainly is not. As I'm typing this, been sitting at a produce shed for 17 hours waiting and waiting. Have one more pickup too 45 miles away which shuts down for the weekend at noon so now my entire weekend is in jeopardy. Been putting in apps at LTL carriers and heard back from one already, hoping to get out of this mess soon, it isn't worth it. There's a better way to make money with a CDL...

 

If one pick isn't ready and your next is only 45 mins away, why haven't you gone and picked it up. You are wasting precious time.