Sealing Trailers

I guess it is from years of hauling produce, but I would rather not have to seal a trailer, and be able to keep an eye on how the freight is riding whenever I stop. I realize the liability issue though from freight count discrepancies and such.

 

I kept zip ties on my latches whether I was loaded and locked or not. They're cheap so you can cut one off every day to check your load and they make it easy to tell if someone messed with your doors.

 

depending on where you're going you could pretty easily get away with breaking the seal to check on the load throughout. Live unloads mainly. drops for Walmart/sams, bj's, dollar or whatnot always check seals at the gate. Coke does too. But paper loads that are going in for a live.. I've had a few places ask for the seal after I broke it, but not much more than that.

Why though? Once it's loaded, unless you're taking speed bumps at 40mph, that stuff won't go anywhere

 

It is against federal law to drive food products without a seal Mr. Produce Hauler.

 

Can you verify that with the code and section number?

 

Are you capable of making a post without inserting a smart mouth remark with it? I could care less what the laws might be today, as my days of produce hauling were many years ago, back when you might actually check pulp temperatures throughout your transport.

 

Food drug cosmetics act 21 USC 341, 342 states (in part) it is prohibited for food products to be "held under conditions whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health"

In Oshkosh Storage v Kraze the driver (kraze) arrived, was instructed to back in front of a dock and wait for seal inspection. The driver broken the seal and backed in. Oshkosh sued and won damages for having to resell the cheese at a lower value.

The same act requires shippers to inspect and certify that shipping container and specify the conditions to be maintained. Sealing the trailer proves that there was no tampering between shippers and consignee.

Trailer seals may not be mentioned specifically but are a reasonable interpretation.

 

Actually, it is not. There are guidelines for shippers/receivers to require seals but no actual law.
Congress passed or had the secretary of health and human services come up with guidelines. In 2005 the Sanitary Transportation of Food Act of 2005 was written. It deals with all aspects of food from start to your home. But the actual transportation is where the guidelines lack.

There are actual court cases

http://www.transportationlaw.net/articles/2010.08article.html

Where customers rejected unsealed or wrong seal loads and fed the whole load to pigs or trash. From what I'm gathering about that article writers view on it, the customer was in the wrong.

Also from what I can understand, the deal with seals is so over looked and mis used that it's like walking on the grass when signs say not too in my opinion.

 

First, the receiver required a seal. The original argument is "food goods are required to be sealed by federal law".

Second, did you read the court documents? My eyes hurt.