Tony, this previous post by Chasing Daylight may shed some light onto temperature controlled hauling.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:57 pm My background is reefer. It's the kind of job you either love or hate.
On the bad side there are a lot of grocery warehouses, lumpers to deal with, 2AM delivery appts, lots of multi pick or multi drop loads. You also have to pay attention during loading. Van drivers get to crawl in the bunk and take a nap. A lot of reefer drivers do the same but shouldn't. Even if you aren't fingerprinting, you should be checking skid temps. If you haul refrigerated more than frozen and get into the produce racket then you have perishables to deal with, lots of time sensitive loads, and the occasional load that is bound to be headaches (strawberries are a good example, oddly enough so is asparagus.)
On the good side, the freight is generally there regardless of the economy, as people always have to eat. Plus, if you get in a slow freight area or bad time of year you can always pull dry goods. Produce tends to be cyclical, but it is also predictable, so even though you are irregular route you often know where you are going to be routed to, at least when your nose is pointed West.
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