Why Would a Company Do This?

Farmerbob1 · May 30, 2021

Canadian hunter said: ↑

I am not a trucker, but I am coming into this forum as a civilian with full respect for the work you do in bringing food to our table. it is appreciated. I have a question for which I cannot find the answer so I thought I would try and get it right from the horse’s mouth.

I live up in Canada and we have been good neighbours to a regional size cold, frozen and dry food distribution warehouse for 20 years. They run a mix of straight trucks for local delivery as well as a fleet of trailers for daily regional deliveries. The furthest run might be 360 miles and the same back home. We have experienced a bit of noise from time to time but recognizing the essential services and jobs they provide we have never made a complaint in those 20 years.

We used to hear the reefers holding temperature as they sat over the weekend at a gentle idle and it was absolutely no problem. Now they sit silent all weekend and then on Sunday night they start the whole fleet in unison. The units the run on high idle for hours creating a bass resonance that comes right into our homes. Similarly, during the week, the regional trailers seem to be coming back at ambient temperature and they are run up at high idle once they are back in the yard.

Could this be some effort by them to achieve fleet fuel savings? If so, what types of calculations and considerations go into bringing back a warm trailer or letting your fleet sit warm all weekend.
Really, just wondering if we are talking about saving dollars or cents.

Any education on this would be appreciated.
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My guess would be that some of your neighbors did complain about nighttime noises, and the company is trying to be nice.

It might be a cost saving effort as well, especially over the weekend.

Have you tried to ask the company why they changed their operations?

dclerici1 · Jun 3, 2021

The way you explain it, my guess would be that the company went from loading Monday’s deliveries on Friday to bringing in the crew on Sunday to load Monday’s deliveries.

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