What not to load on a Food Grade Trailer.

If Kraft nose does not think it stinks it's fine.

Everything else is solved by a good washout. The rest of it is taken care of at the shop.

Once in a while we would install a bulkhead and run two temperatures. I had paint in the front and food in the back. That was fun, hazmat too Believe it or not... That food was wrapped 10 times including the pallets.

Spices are nice. McCormick of Hunts Valley comes to mind. I have never had anyone complain of spice in the trailer because out of 5000 little tiny bitty boxes, something for everyone. Shrugs.

 

Have you gotten a trailer washout?

 

Oh ok. I assumed we were talking refer. My bad.

 

Oh that's different.

Reefers to me is metal flooring.

Wooden does not do reefer too well.

 

Marks on the walls don't make it not be food grade. It's freight. You're going to get marks and scratches on the wall. As long as the trailer is clean no dirt, no spider webs, no trash - you're fine. Stains on the floor don't matter. As long as it doesn't stink and there's no residue. If someone nails scotches to the floor to block pallets after pulling the boards fill those holes (if there are any) with black silicone from underneath the trailer and they'll never reject it for seeing daylight come up through thru the floors. You've got a good list of do not haul stuff. Never ever haul any sort of recycled material that stuff is always filthy. Avoid nursery loads like the plague. When asking details on the load ask "is it a clean load". There should be no hesitation or "uhhhhhh, uhhhhhh" when they answer that question.

 

Never haul cow hides omg what a stench it left ..3 washouts including a deodorizer and it still smelled

 

Raw plastic for recycling ... generally stored outside. Filled with stagnate water. Frozen offal, 24 hours to deliver, thawed out and stinking by that time.

 

Never haul carbon black either. They will offer a rate that is at least double the average, but it is not worth it. Your trailer will never be clean again.