🥶 REEFER the cold hard facts | the negatives of hauling reefer freight
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I saw a lumper throw a load lock out of a trailer, across the dock like it was an olympic javelin event. I could tell he'd been practicing.
That's hilarious 😂😆.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao
Flat bedder I love my sleep. 90% of appointment time is a window 8am to 4pm. Love yr information.
Only thing that sucks is when you don't have nothing for the weekend.
@@Greenbearls ya having a life at home over the weekends is just horrible lol🤔😏
@@stevenkovacs2766 not everyone is as lucky as you.
it's not so nice when your have to tarp in the heat, snow or rain
Another thing, always have at least 3/4 to a full tank for your reefer. Some places will make you go fuel that trailer if you don't.
Story time:
Hauling Refer for a food delivery company. The fan belt on my Cascadia slipped off in -17 Idaho weather and kept my coolant pump from running (No Heat). As I sat waiting for roadside the truck cab temp was steadily declining. I finally had to hope in to the trailer (2 bulk heads, 3 sections, Frozen refer and dry product.) and hang out in the refrigerated section and figure out how to close the side door of the trailer with me in it (door sensor) so the refer would turn on and keep me and the product from freezing. Finally 2 hours later the tech shows up and lets me sit in his idling truck with the heat on full while he worked on my truck.
The worst plants are the fish processing plants. Always in older parts of cities that were served by wagons or rail cars.
As for OSD, I had several cases of Cool Whip that were damaged.
I was told, get rid of it however you want.
I spent a day and a half going along US 30 stopping at churches and food banks.
It was right around Thanksgiving. A few were actually happy, as that was one thing they didn't have.
Love that reefer. Get to sleep for hours at the shippers/receivers.
Facts
Did 9 years of reefer. Got tired of living at shippers and receivers. Weight of the reefer motor makes it a challenge to get your weight right. Got my hazmat and pull a dry van.
Do you pull specific dry van hazmat frieght
How is the pay doing dry van?
All good things to “warn” noobs about doing reefer loads. I did it for about 5 years and didn’t realize how much I appreciate a more normal sleep schedule doing simple dry van loads.
How is the pay doing dry van?
@@Solitude633 I’m getting up in years and appreciate a regular sleep schedule even though dry van doesn’t pay as well.
Did reefers 20 years,i said enough, I haul cars now,no wait times,and i set my own pickup and delivery times,a lot of times i drop after hours when the dealerships are closed
same here love those cars tons of money and no worrys hahah...deliver whenever and get to drive some cool cars
Hauled cars for 7 years and hauled dry van for 1 year, cars are the way to go!!$$$$
"I don't like reefer trailers parking next to me....."
Okay, you'll REALLY be entertained when a bull hauler parks next to you 😁😁😁
Love reefer I do both with my Hyunda reefer. I never get stuck anywhere in the US. Stay away from fresh chicken and late night pickups. My reefer is quiet. There are times when reefer is a pain but that's Trucking in general. No matter what loads you pull. It's always something.
New driver here. Doing reefer drop and hook. So far so easy . If course i always fill up that refer when getting fuel. Love it
I work for a shipper in a turkey processing plant. What you said about meat processing plants is very true.
I drive dry van, much of what I do is drop and hook, and if it's not drop and hook then it's maybe a one or two hour wait. I think I'll stay right here where I'm at.
Same. Landing gear being trash is my only issue anymore lol
How much do you make weekly if I may ask? You do Otr?
@@Solitude633 I drive for A&M out of Oregon, I stick with Cal/Ore/WA and sometimes NV/AZ. Pay is .48 per mile plus extras, and I average 3,000 miles a week. This week I did 9 drop and hooks and 2 live unloads, ran a total of 3,428 in the last 6 days. Been here 4 years, first company for me and probably only.
I’m half way through this video and I had to stop the video. I had to stop it to subscribe. Great points, thank you.
I need to quit smoking reefer so I can drive a reefer
Been smoking reefer driving reefer 7 years now
I don’t have a problem with reefers it’s them damn apu’s that make me go crazy
Pulled a reefer most of my life, did dump trailers a few seasons, went to dry van and never looked back. I do ltl freight and love it. I’m selling my reefer , don’t plan to return.
scott berry - how much do you sell your reefer for? i used to pay $250 for a quarter pound. $100 for an ounce...
@@z-z-z-z : 15,500 for the whole thing!!!
@@JASONHJEFFERSON : zero stress, no grocery warehouse, pretty much no bs.
What are details on your reefer? I'm looking to buy one.
@@mikes8189 : 07 Great Dane , 53-102, flat floor , logistics inside triple cold air chutes, stainless front and rear, aluminum inner and outer brakes 3/4,24.5 lo pro rubber 1/2 tread carrier unit 19 k on hours. $14.000. Located in Michigan. If interested email me @ scottberry800@gmail.com
I am dry van OTR and it's almost exclusively drop and hook. I might be too spoiled by this easy work to do refer. It sounds like hard time consuming work. Glad you and others are willing because I love to eat. Thanks for your videos
Dole Yuma averages 6 hours to load.
😳 Whoa
Been there, done that!
Kroger in Delaware, OH took nearly 7 hours once. Told me staff took an hour break halfway through. I was floored. No overlap????
Great video. Appreciate the honesty.
Bro, This was a good video regarding reefer operations for an owner operator. I think it's imperative to create a plan of attack. After trucking school I applied to one company and have been employed there ever since. I got in where I fit in. Reefer is the best job for me as an individual. No one eats in this nation without us. Also reefer is the closest thing to recession proof you will find in our industry. All points made in this video are true and accurate. As always you broke it down and kept it real. Patience is a virtue and you master it as a reefer driver. Thank you Cash for this insightful video. Safe travels to Miami. Keep on posting and I'll keep on tuning in. ☮️ from Cali
Excellent video. This is a must watch.
Thank you
A guy I used to work with went to pick up strawberries from the field. 3 days. They picked as the berries ripened and loaded them on the truck. There was a porta potty and the shipper gave him some menu’s to order food from.
Same thing happened to me with cucumbers in MN. Was stuck there for 4 days.
Well you took the words right out of my mouth. I am a contract driver for a major LTL freight carrier. Sometimes I find that the route I've been assigned to for that day will have 20-30 residential/commercial stops that has been pre-loaded for me that will have a stop to a grocery warehouse with anywhere from 1-6 skids lets say that need to be off-loaded. As I have a lot of customers to service in a short period of time, my job is only to bump a dock just long enough for that customer to remove their skids so I can get to the next customer. That however at some locations is not what happens. I'll get into a grocery dock, they'll show me a pallet jack, make me unload their freight onto their dock, then force me to spend 3-5 hours in unpaid labor breaking down 1-6 skids onto 20 different pallets. I try to explain that I am not a dock worker and that I have other customers to deliver or pickup and they tell me my only option is to pay for a lumper which is not my problem. This detail should've been worked out with the shipper ahead of time before I even reach that customers dock. I only have a 20-minute window per customer but grocery warehouses don't seem to understand they are not my only stop. Grocery customers are the only part of my job I detest because they are a bunch of organized thieves. I feel sorry for the FedEx, UPS, and USPS drivers with 50 or more stops being put in this situation. I am hauling the stuff in semi-trailers that either won't fit in their panel vans or is too heavy but we're doing the same job.
I can handle the noise.
It’s the vibrations. Drives my restless legs/ Neuropathy crazy.
If there’s a reefer nearby I gotta find a new parking lot
Sorry to hear,That is a bummer
Only time the reefers bothers me is when it shuts off . Lol.
Facts!!!! The refer not running wakes me up faster than anything!
Scariest feeling ever.
@@bradwoods7321 only second to being parked at a truck stop next to the last open space and seeing a swift driver looking for a spot....😬
🤣
Sorry haven't watched the "lumper" video. Lumber services are a f'ing plague. Not the people who are just doing a job to pay their bills. The service. And it is a mostly American thing. I haul grocery in Canada and have NEVER been told to hire a lumper service. When I did OTR it seemed like every other place wants you to either unload or hire a service. Excuse me if you order something expect it delivered and don't have the manpower to unload it. Not my problem. Do the right thing HIRE and pay a decent wage with benefits and have you own damn staff. Shippers pay to have staff to load the damn truck, you as the receiver should hire your own damn staff to unload the product and not expect either the trucking company or shipping company to shoulder that cost for you the business.
BTW as a Canadian driver when I did OTR states side I am NOT legally allowed to work on an American dock...cause I'd be taking away a job for a Merican to do. And after a 11 hour driving shift you can kiss my taint if you think for a moment I'm unloading 40 000 plus pounds of groceries for you. I've done my job....truck driver, not truck warehouse employee. See it's right there in the title truck DRIVER.
I just started telling receivers state side. 1. I'm Canadian and can't work on your dock 2. The company I work for is a no touch freight company and nothing about needing a lumper service on the BOL. 3. Your option is now this, either accept the product and unload it, or reject the freight and I drive it back.
Side note. In my younger years I was a warehouse employee for various companies. And not one of those places did we ever tell a truck driver. You're going to have to wait X hours to be unloaded. 2 people using nothing but pump jacks should be totally able to strip a fully loaded trailer in under 30 minutes. That is if it is all on pallets. You simple sign the bill and mark it received subject to count. And let the trucker be on their way. Any missing product is a dispute between the shipping company and the receiver nothing to do with the trucker....well unless it turns out they are a dbag thief, but that is a different issue.
Again the actual Lumper I have zero issue with they are just a guy/gal trying to earn a buck. Companies that use them over hiring their own staff are the plague.
Best comment I ve seen reflecting the actual truth , those receivers are too greedy to pay someone a decent wage let alone to unload their products from ur truck , the whole system is messed up
when i worked in a warehouse, granted it wasn't too big, when we did get a OTR truck delivery id have them unloaded within 30 minutes of them backing up to the dock.
“Taint” 🤣
That was a great point regarding the multiple-stop nature of loads. Had never really occurred to me before that the traditional LTL carriers (ABF, YRC, etc.) don't run reefer trailers.
I just starting it a few months ago to be honest with you I don’t have patient for that
You got good information coming out the only thing I gotta say is that a lot of these brokers need to listen to what you’re saying they don’t care about that
Thank you very much for this video! Husband and I are new to the game and have decided to start off with what we think we’ll love, reefer baby. God be with us all ❤️
I’ve had plenty of OSD stories.
Once had two pallets of Cornish hens (25 cases per pallet 24 hens per case =1200 hens) it was donated to a victory mission .
Had 7 cases of candy from Hershey. (Pitch it they said) I “pitched “ them onto my top bunk.
Once Had a student on the truck and one load we did had two cases of chicken drumsticks rejected. (“Pitch them” We cooked some up on the truck. For the rest we packed them in styrofoam coolers and kept them on ice. Got routed by his (student’s) home and handed them off to his wife and kids
10 4 way to save good food from the dumpster
To comment on the reefer noise when I was running reefer after I had washed out the trailer from a meat load to get ready for a produce load I had a 2 day wait before the load was ready and was parked sleeping and woke up and didn't hear the reefer running and went into a panic thinking it ran out of fuel or just quit working I was almost out the door of the truck when it hit me I was empty
That feeling of your heart dropping. Happened to me last week when I woke up and it was light out. Normally work early mornings! It was a weekend 🤣😂🤣😂
Cash,
Thank you for the education. I appreciate you taking your time to put together this video. Stay safe!🇺🇸
Jumpin' Jeezuss on a pogo stick! I sure am glad you made this video. I'm just starting out and we're going into reefer-loads. That's some solid-gold content, brother!
I always did local and by the hour. Loved it. Half the day just taking a nap in the truck. Even got a hammock made just for daycab trucks. Had a blanket and a pillow. I'd tell them to call or knock on the door when they're done. Easy peasy.
My longest wait time was 9 hours because I ran out of hours. 14 hours of pay and I didn't get the load 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Lumpers are a scam. Do you charge ups to take your package?!?!
Reefer and Livestock are the only trailers i like to see in my mirrors.
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@@CashisKingtrucking Do reefer drivers get lay over pay or hourly pay for lay over since they have to wait so long to be loaded and unloaded?
I don't like my load back sassing me. But I do love me a 🥩.
Personally I like hauling equipment and materials.
To me the worst is C&S as far as unloading times, also us foods or supervalu can be horrible experiences in general.....
@@JASONHJEFFERSON how about Roundys, now owned by Kroger, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin??
C&S=Come and Sit
SuperValu in Mechanicsville, VA is absolutely trash
Food Lion in Desputanta, VA is another one that totally sucks, it's a 8 to 10 hour wait time Everytime.
Agree
I had a good time running raw whole or steamed whole pig skins down to Laredo cross docks from various places around the states. I got to know a lot of the dock workers and wash out guys roaming the lots. It was gross as hell to a lot of people it never bothered me, but I liked meeting and getting to know interesting people. Yeah Laredo is rough but there were good people down there. I find running dry van now, I don’t get to meet interesting people as much. Or they tend to have the personality of a wet mop. It’s hit or miss I guess. There’s something for everyone in trucking. Thousands of way to truck. Etc...🖖🏼
How much do you make weekly doing dry van? Are you otr?
There’s a turkey processing plant in Camden South Carolina be real careful with them, if you don’t have the system where you can put straps accross inside the Reefer trailer because load locks will not hold the bins because they are 2000 pounds each, full of turkey breasts and they load them on slip sheets so with that metal floor they wanna slide, and even with normal braking your load will shift and you will be overweight, that happened to me and it was a nightmare I had to get the load reworked twice we ended up having to take stacks of pallets and put them in between so we could space the bins out so the axle weights were legal and stayed that way
I hated dealing with capstone!! went to ports way better
Been hauling a reefer for years. My biggest gripe is remembering to keep the reefer fuel above 3/4 before drops. I’ve had MANY customers turn me away simply because the fuel showed slightly below that marking. The noise from the reefer doesn’t bother me, but having to send in the correct temps to my company with each PU is annoying af.
YOU HAVE TO BE SMOKING REEFER TO WANT TO PULL ONE. I REFUSED TO PULL THEM !
So if you would explain to me the rational behind keeping reefer fuel above 3/4 mark be drop please. ( new to the industry)
@cliffordadams3442 After that trailer is loaded it may sit in a drop lot for a day, maybe two, before the driver picks it up. If that trailer is loaded with frozen food that has to be kept at 0 degrees, or worse yet ice cream -20 degrees, on a scorching hot day it's gonna burn through a lot of fuel very quickly. Get it? NEVER drop with less than 3/4 full.
@@TheTallMan50One time I went to pick up a pre-loaded and the reefer was off and coding...I checked and sure enough, it was out of fuel. Fortunately, it was still within temp and I was able to fuel at the nearest truck stop and get it fired back up. I was surprised that it fired right up. One time I had to prime one, it took me almost half an hour to get it primed and started.
@Brooklyn_Powers I once had to prime a reefer way back in '99 when I drove for KLLM. I had to slowly pump that thing 150 times before it would eventually start. Nowadays these units are much more advanced. They're programmed to shut down as soon as the fuel level drops below 1/4. So when we fill it back up we don't have to prime it. At least that's how it is at my company.
Supervalu grocery warehouse in Hopkins MN is definitely a loss of faith in humanity. The loaders constantly load trailers incorrectly I have had tipped pallets before even leaving the warehouse. No common decency or respect for the drivers that have to deal with their crap. I'm out there every day and now they even blocked of access to the can unless your a hot shot supervalu driver!
My own reefer would wake me sometimes, but sometimes it helps me sleep
Man nothing will wake me up faster then that reefer turning off lol
Damn, i work for a Heavy equipment dealer warehouse and a full load/unload gotta be done in minutes with all kinds of heavy ass unbalanced shit straped down by assholes on broken pallets.
I'm the annoying one who try to strap things properly and try to educate others because i am the most experienced forklift driver, and i just dont want to rely on my arms and my back because the stuff fell off the pallet in the worst place imaginable... it takes 5sec to think about it and no more time to do it properly. It save time, stress, my back, the trucker's time, presentation to the client....etc
I'm tired of this, i really am thinking about getting my CDL!
I'm going to be honest I like this video, and you a lot more than I thought I was going to going into this video. I currently work for a Foodservice Delivery company running a ramp, and I have been thinking about going to reefer otr once I get some experience under my belt, and this video was very informative.
If it’s Mclane then make sure to get your experience and leave ASAP. They have no respect for the work yo put forth. You are just another number. 🏃🏽 fast
@@joshcrouch9298 No but I have heard awful things about them. I'm with Gordon, and they're a great company so far I'll honestly probably just stick with them, but OTR is something I've always wanted to try.
@@a.jlininger8826 I quit Mclane out of Georgia and I had bought a semi 2 yrs ago and had it as a backup plan
I’m currently in chicago pulling flatbed
As a flatbed driver, I'm shocked by the number of stops. I'm surprised whenever I get more than one stop but 7. Geez.
Lol we do seafood over here in Virginia and be having 15-20stops going up and like 5 coming back down
Hauling groceries and doing a frozen load. It can easy be a 10 stop night if the full load is ice cream. It's 2 pallets here 3 pallets there. You get use to it, like any other job.
I just finished my first year driving OTR and all I've done is reefer. I love it and just got a huge raise. Don't plan on going anywhere for awhile.
Nice.
8:20 YES!!!!!!! I CANNOT TELL YOU how many drivers i dispatch every day who i ask them if they have at minimum 2 load locks or straps, and they tell me "nooooope". and i have to stop, and tell them to call back TQL when they have the damn straps.
Yep farm aminals go in one end and come out all boxed up the other end😳
Soylent green much!
LoL
I love the fact that you reside in MN, northern MN here; been enjoying your videos tonight.
I watched this video from start to finish. I always hated the smell of those chicken plants. And you hit the hammer on the head when you said “death is in the air” 😂🤣.
Hehe I deliver boxes to allot of chicken plant always make sure to have vents on recirculate you gotta love the dirt lots with green stuff growing in wet spots
thank you for this video I now realize that reefer is not for me I appreciate your transparency
Go under dry van. It's much simpler & pu/drop times are more stable
Great video. I just got back into the reefer game after pulling FedEx Ground for a few years. Looking forward to checking out your lumper video. I hate paying lumpers and have been enjoying that Walmart ain't charging $60 anymore according to the last few months I've been pulling them.
Yeah its nice Walmart has the shippers prepay for the lumpers now
I haul everything except tank and hazmat. My biggest issue with reefer freight is high pulp temps. I used to load oranges at a place in California and it was almost always straight off the tree. The pulp temps were consistently 30-40 degrees higher than the 55 degrees they were supposed to be. More than once, the unit iced up going into Nevada. California is the only place I ever had that problem. Fortunately, the company my tractors are leased to doesn't run California anymore!
I took many trips from east to west with a fellow veteran who hauled a reefer.i didn't sleep much more than 8 hours in the week out and back. Reefer broke down...so much to deal with. AM log book and a PM log book. Mileage records entering each state. And oh I drove too w/o license to do so. Wow! Never again.
Sounds crazy, I bet you got some stories
I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience.
No problem. Thanks for watching
Dominick's foods in Chicago..(it's gone now). I seen a driver get pissed off. The dock manager went and got a dock worker, pointed to a forklift, then at the drivers door, and back onto his office. The dock worker walked over to that forklift, pulled one pallet off that trailer, set it on the floor, and walked away. I was there over 8 hours, and he was still waiting to be unloaded. With that one pallet sitting on the floor.
Roundy's foods in Milwaukee, Wis is another place of a cluster *uck ! plus they have the small pallets, so EVERYTHING must be moved from regular sized to their smaller size pallets.
Another thing we ship out in poultry is export to Canada or Mexico. USDA has to not only needs to approve the product, but need to approve the trailer for cleaniness and pre cooled before we can load.
Good information I’ve done reefer in the past I’ll have to check out your lumper video one of my pet peeves right next to toll roads
I’ll stick to my dry-van Multi stop loads that I unload
When ever I’m bothered by that reefer parked next to me I just reminded me of how much I like ice cream
Is dry van good for beginners over reefer? How much do you make weekly?
I love reefer when I goto bed I fall asleep like a big ole baby when its roaring it's like a lullaby
10 4
Some of our reefers are quiet, some are like having a freight train roaring behind your tractor. I hate stop/start mode. I'm always afraid it won't restart so I wake up when it stops, sleep when it starts. Not good. I generally select continuous and forget about it.
Appointments are bull. Show up slightly early and wait, and wait and wait, meanwhile the next customer was given your personal cell and calling every 30 minutes thinking you are dispatch wondering when they get their load. Then your boss is calling and yelling asking why you blocked the customer. Customer should not even have my cell number. Had one call on my day off at 4 in the morning asking about a load. Again, thought I was dispatch.
Should've told your "boss" up yours ☝
@@Solitude633 Told him I won't take customer's calls. Not my job.
Got out of reefers... and no way would I take a load to a grocery warehouse after that. I also dumped my Hazmat. Hazmat is like painting a bullseye on the side of your rig for every state, county, and local cop to hassle you. And, owner operators... stay the hell away from "fleet maintained" trucks. My last company job, they did an oil change every 100,000 miles... whether it needed it or not!!! They were going to get rid of the truck at 500,000 miles, so all they cared about was it made it that far! Got an old 1991 International back in 2011 with a 120" sleeper... and a mechanical CAT. Run California... are you crazy??? Not even for $1,000 a mile! Year restrictions??? I leased on with a small around 32 truck company, and they were happy to have me even though I could only load around 40,200 in a dry van. They paid 82% of the load (NEVER work on per mile... you WILL get screwed and go broke). Think my cheapest load was $2.31 a mile, that's $1.89 a mile to the truck back in 2011!!! Oh but, the old engines get terrible fuel mileage, right? I went from a lease-purchase (another thing to NEVER do unless you want to die broke and miserable) POS 2004 Freightliner that had massive issues with the electronic that got 5.5-5.75 MPH at 65 MPH if I was lucky... to 6.5-6.75 MPG at 70-75 MPH. Yeah... those old mechanical engines got horrible fuel mileage! Best bet is to get a glider kit and install an older (Stage I electronics only with a Pittsburgh Power box) drive line... or buy an older truck that has been well maintained. And stay away from reefer and Hazmat loads.
Im a switcher truck driver for a major grocery store chain in the southeast and the majority of our trailers are refeers. I move over 100 trailers a day, but most of our inbound freight starts unloading at 4AM and stops at 6pm.
yard jock?
Sounds like US Foods; they was always a joy to deliver to.
Good job telling about refer hauling I heard about the waiting. And I have did it , and I’ll say it’s hard at times. I’ll say more than not but money good, so keep trucking and have a good one.
Thank you for this video. I was contemplating on purchasing a reefer however I zero knowledge about it. Your video answered all the questions I had. Thanks for the truth the ugly and good.
as of now, there are enough reefer loads that we only haul one and one. We did pull one plant load that was one pick and four drops, but it paid the truck accordantly.
Yeah still lots of 1/1. I meant more multiple stops than dry van or flatbed typically.
I run step and flat but I eventually want to get a reefer for the winter time thanks for the insight
Anytime
When your bungies don't go back to their original size. I know that feel.
@@Greenbearls yeah man it’s rough in the cold
If you get your trailer washed out at a Blue Beacon they'll dispose of limited quantities of product or pallets for a small additional fee. I've had them throw away 500 lb of overage and a pallet for ,$30.
Good deal
I've always just call a food bank, church or just stop at a mom and pop restaurant. I had 4 pallets of cauliflower rejected at Walmart in Clarksville AR. The food bank came to me in 20 min. And unloaded it all. Even offered to buy me dinner
My question is how would California get rid of the diesel engine that runs the reefer for electric motor be a good idea for haulin ice cream and meat in Southern California when batteries last only soo long. I hope to see the day the trucking industry said no more California
Hehe 95% of my stuff drop and hook run empty half the time. we only set up to haul our product as I tell people I'm paid the same loaded empty bobtail if I had to walk then I gotta be paid by the hour I can't run 74mph
Safeway in Denver made me come back the day after my scheduled appt to take 1 pallet with 3 layers/40 cases off.
I stoped doing reefer when i tossed the dock formen off the dock
Went back rgn and step deck mostly oversize and super size like you point all forms of trucking have advantages and disadvantages doing super size will give you lots practice at dealing with cops what i like about most loads is drive off or crane off and crane appointments are carved stone and mostly when you show up people are happy to you
New subscriber thanks for the tips driving 15 years dry van and 6 months refeer and I been going tru slot of stuff you said but happy learning refeer and got a few tips from you keep up the tips.
Dude, I had about 30 cases and 168 pints of blue bunny ice cream get left on my trailer and had drivers turning me away trying to get rid of it.
Reefer Madness!
Grocery distribution centers are horrible. The wait is manageable but the disrespectful employees and long lines to get in and out is horrible. Flatbed is more my style. Physical and dirty work but usually great people to deal with.
So true. Some treat us like animals
Just don't like it when you're parked way in the back..and one decides to be your neighbor or you're nosed in at 60 degree weather with your engine off one will pull in same way with the reefer screaming all night.
Waaa
I delivered an "expidited" cargo van load, of Styrofoam containers. They wanted me to pay, union lumpers to unload. A warehouse guy showed me how to load the 4 pallets and I got out. Grocery Distribution Center's DO NOT UNDERSTAND the term, "Expedited". !!!
They think it means take EXTRA time to load/unload.
Good video, waiting is the trucking game, the problem is companies do not compensate their drivers. Damages are also put on the drivers. Had many dog food, cat food, kitty litter with broken bags, scratches on the boxes that would effect the resale of the products. So I had to dispose of the product.
Very true
Thanks for the video driver 👍 I've been pulling reefers since 04 and you are absolutely 💯 right driver and I'm sick of the BS I'm thinking 🤔 about going to flatbed 😉✌️💪🚛🚛🚛🚛🗽🦅🇺🇲
Kind of laughing at thinking flatbed is better then reefer. Apparently you've never tried moving a 100 lb lumber tarp in the dead of winter when it's -25c and the wind is doing its very best to blow you off the trailer. Then climbing down and having to deal with 15 straps that are frozen slushy messes with fingers so cold they actually hurt to use.
Hats off to the men and women that do it.
Be smart about tarping in the winter. Use their tarping machine or have them lift the tarps with the forklift. I have another tarp to tarp my tarps when not in use.
@@Greenbearls I did it once. That's why I will never do it again. Found out right quick wasn't for me. Also why I ended my comment with Hats off to those that choose to do it. It's a hard part of the job, and I don't think people who do it get paid enough to do it. Lot of places around here pay maybe $50 tops for tarping and strapping/chaining a load.
If you haul produce you most likely will have multiple pickups (4-7) with several hundred miles between especially west coast. Start in northern Cali finishing in Yuma
Back when my brother drove for a company called decker he had a run from Blue Bunny, that picked up and usually it was his last load of the week and dropped near the house, well just say there was usually a damage or extra case "accidentally thrown on...."
Another thing you have feed the trailer fuel and maintain the mechanic Al and reefers cost twice as much as dry van or flat bed htrailrrs. Reefers are heavier
And? Dry don't pay or you have to run more. Have fun.
There are many different sides to most anything, including reefer. I worked for a medium sized company for 7+ years then almost 17 years (& still counting) for a large company. Both reefer. 95% of the time, I get 1 pick & 1 drop. I've had 2 picks. I don't think I've ever had more than 5 drops. If more than 1, it's 2 or 3. And the shippers, are often drop & hook when you drive for a big company. Especially meat plants. I hate the ice cream loads with a 5 year old or more Carrier reefer. 1st, they'll struggle to precool the empty trailer. Then, it'll run in high speed sooo long. And Carriers are loud.
I’ll be going from flatbed to reefer and I think reefer is better because you never have to worry about securement and load lock is easier
Reefer loads to are typically heavier loads I think. That might be another negative
👍 Trailer is too
Trailer is because of the reefer fridge on front make trailer heavy an they can calculate weights correctly for a trailer for some reason. The floor is heavy in trailers.
The Floor, walls and roof of a reefer are much more heavy duty to insulate the trailer. So much so you could probably walk on the roof fairly easily
Finally dropped in after seeing you on trucking answers, good stuff man sub'd 👍
Awesome 😎 Thank you
beautiful information sir
20 years dry van OTR. Every time I had to go to a grocery warehouse I would fantasize for at least 15 minutes about suicide, abandoning the truck, driving to Mexico and living in Baja, pretty much anything other than actually having to go through with it LOL. Reefer is crazy unless you are hauling coast to coast turns, and even then it sure as hell is not for me.
Bro I used to wonder what I could hang myself from in the cab when running reefer, now dry van, will never go back
Lots of things brother you likely. Dry van is easy peasy
That’s some funny shit!
@@HaulingBonez I left trucking a year & 1/2 ago because of doing reefer as my first division. I hated it but now I'm considering going back but under dry van division. It seems like less of a headache.
How is the pay under dry van?
Ha! Truth. Appointment times on hazmat refer aren't bad. They get you in and out. I do produce sometimes. Longest time I ever waited was 24 hrs but that was my fault I was early. They did unload me at my appt time though. Only O/O since November though . Thanks for the information!
First time to channel. Very good presentation. Things that every refer driver should know especially the clean out. I feel it is very important.
Earplugs don't always work. Those reefers really make noise depending on the setting it is on.
New school ones seem to be older when they are supposed to be "whisper quite"
I tried hooking a couple of reefer loads. I lost a lot of $$ at it due to the wait timeS at both ends.. stuck with my flatbed and OS/ HH freight
Lol you sound like a school teacher 🤣 good job 👍 this will make me think about what the hell i want to do thinks 🚛✌️
I know we need you guys, but I will not pull anything with doors 😖
Man, I've been to plenty of Tyson and JBS facilities hauling beef, chicken, and pork and yeah they stink. Tyson smells like burnt refried beans, but I've never once considered becoming a vegetarian.