Baled aluminum cans

Yes it'll be trashed with a mess of stale beer and sticky cola drippings that smells really good. If you run a lot of food grade it's really best just to not haul nasty loads like that trashing out your trailer. And one of the worst things you can do to a wood floored trailer is wash it out. The owner's manual recommends not to. Soaking the wood with water causes it to expand. When it dries it contracts. Maybe once or even several times it will be fine but if you do it enough the next thing you know there are hairline cracks appearing in the floor with daylight showing thru. Then a forklift wheel busts thru the floor one day. I wouldn't make a habit of washing out a dry van trailer. I actually never did mine but I wouldn't haul loads that trashed them out that bad either.

 

You will learn to hate those.

I do food grade reefer and also high dollar medicines that if you touched a spilled vial on the wall or floor with a finger tip, the absorbing dose through the skin there will take you out like a fallen tree and then try to kill you via overdose.

It's overly dramatic. But those kinds of loads are not that nice. They just stuff it in there and #### your property and so on. Tear it right up and then smear it where you have to get the stickies out of there before a biblical flood of horseflies out of Texas head straight for you.

 

This is a stinky load. Drippings and sticky stains on the floor, if not washed out promptly, will attract ants. Not a good sport to fight them. The load itself may have a lot of insects. The baled recycled paper or scrap metal is a mess too. All of them - garbage loads - pretty much need wash outs after.

 

Those are best put in all metal containers.

 

Oh yeah..flies and maggots. We deliever aluminum bales of scrap cans. They must load them full of flies in California cause time they get to Ohio rail yard it is a mess. We take them to Neville Island Pa.

 

OP, You should take this load. These loads come only from the best paying, high quality brokers.

Also, you probably get to buy a new tire or two after dealing with the yards on both ends.

Also, the less of these there are out there the better it is for me.

I will NEVER, and I mean NEVER touch one.

 

It had better pay good. A wood floor wash out takes a few hours to dry in the right weather. It often means no reloads for the rest of a day too. I would not take it either due to the fact that I have only one trailer and over half of loads are food products. I once took a load of sausage casings and it was not worth all that effort to rid of smell and greasy stains after.

 

If the trailer smells bad afterwards spill and spread ground coffe on the floor and leave for some time, it will absorb the smell.

 

i hauled lead bars once. after it was unload. i had to go pick up chips once. once in the door the guy comes out.tells me i need to sweep the trailer out. i told him i wasnt sweeping nothing. i knew that lead dust was all in the trailer.