Rookie haulin a reefer

There's lots to learn about the produce business. This segment of the industry is worried since the introduction of electronic log books. Anyone that's ever hauled produce, knows that the schedule
is tight and tough! There's lots of independents out there and some smaller carriers still running on paper logs and running hard for the produce buyers that want their product into the market in a big hurry.
Same for meat haulers.
Buyers wouldn't hire trucks that ran on the e-log system.... when they order from for eg. Toronto.... load comes in from Salinas, CA in 3.5 days... no logs... that's a heck of a schedule, but there are companies, believe it or
not still doing it. Meat haulers out of the mid-West are still doing 18 hr driving days, several in a row. They may get away with it now, but it won't last forever.... needless to say of the apparent dangers of this
type of schedule.
Just a little F.Y.I. about this kind of work, if that's what you're planning on staying with.

 

I run Minneapolis - LA reload in Bakersfield 6.5 days round trip, there is a reason us reefer guys run at night in un-governed trucks. Logs look "legalish" on paper. (Never had them fail the scrutiny of the law.) When e-logs become mandatory occasional tickets will become cost of doing business. I have known a couple guys that didn't run logs at all (Pre-CSA) would run until they got popped take the forced 34 hour reset and continue on. I on the other hand run hard 6.5, hit my 70 when getting back home take a few days off and run hard till back home.