Hey everyone,
I am new to the community and I am having trouble with heavy loads of furniture loaded onto reefer truck beds. The issue is most warehouses have simple hand trucks that have wheels wide enough to take most of the furniture off. But every once and a while there is a large sofa or buffet that cannot be removed with a hand truck. They often have four wheelers but the wheels on most casters are too skinny to roll over the groves in a reefer floor and get stuck in the grooves.
Is there any carts that can accommodate heavy loads that have wheels wide enough to roll over reefer beds?
Unloading a Reefer some furniture is a challange.
Discussion in 'Refrigerated Trucking Forum' started by JakeJitsu86, Oct 12, 2018.
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Shop a wheel and caster specialty store locally or online. You should be able to find something that will work or stuff to modify a cart you may presently work with.
Even yard wagons that can be bought at Tractor Supply might be something that could be cut down to a lower profile. They have the soft wide tires you may be looking for. -
That would be a one hell of a cart. Or a jack.
Try this instead.
Get a 10 gauge or thicker sheet of metal. (Don't you cut yourself...) 4 in total. One for each sofa wheel. A few feet long. Not too long and not too short. And yea wide so you don't fall into the next 5 grooves...
I guess if you got it in (Or someone did...) it's going to have to come out the same way.
When unloaded, Find a way to record that particular shipper of sofa, delivery to that customer into a little black book.
Make sure you refer to that book when someone asked how would you like to haul this nice furnature load? Make sure you do not have to put up with #### like this again.
Good luck.
In all my days I have never had a sofa on wheels inside a reefer. If I could not get to a Lowes to get sheet metal I would take 4 folgers metal coffee cans and cut them, unwind them and attempt to use that as at least sliding pads under the wheels.
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Might also shop “material handling supply” stores.
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Try a pallet jack.
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What is unloaking????,
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A lot of MI based carriers spec flat floor reefers due to their higher percentage of floral and furniture hauls. Maybe something to consider next time.
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