What is this?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by tucker, Apr 7, 2019.

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What is it?

Poll closed Jan 7, 2024.
  1. Really can’t tell

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  2. Pictures too blurry

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  3. Henway

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  1. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    That would need to be in an actual refer I'd think. Unless they are just shuttling it around the packing plant.
     
  2. Dave_in_AZ

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    DB Cooper.
     
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    Those are called Gaylords, their heavy gauge cardboard boxes on pallets. They put all kinds of things in them, from watermelons to recyclables.
     
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    Hence my Liberace picture. I'm glad someone knows what they are.
     
  5. x1Heavy

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    Language has changed. If you sang a gay song in the say 1890's that meant you were having a happy song. Nothing to do whatsoever with orientation.

    The last time I came across the Gaylord used as a name would be one of the Smoky and Bandit movies. I must admit it was a rather badly built episode involving a mountie and his wife with a horde of throw away rental cars.
     
  6. gentleroger

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    Are meat and potatoes allowed to be transported in the same van? What about cross contamination?

    I also hope you washed out real well, nobody likes a steak marinated in rancid melon juice.
     
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    I used to haul watermelons on a flatbed covered with straw and protected by a hundred $ plywood side kit, now they put them in Gaylords and stuff em in a reefer.
     
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    “Wife”???

    You mean this is a female???:eek:

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    I suppose you could run meat and potato but would require a old style bulkhead and a older trailer that has a seperate cooling unit in the rear because you will be running two seperate temps.

    There is no point. Potatos by themselves is a righteous load put into the reefer directly from a pile on the ground. (That should make you really clean those #### things after store bought... Russets in particular...)
     
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    Oh boy.

    This one will take a while for me to climb out of the hole i fell into here.

    Good catch.
     
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