Rules for washing out trailer

Mold in the trailer?, If your hauling food products?, I would think so, Contact FMCSA, Maybe they would know

 

I'm really surprised your shippers don't require a wash out prior to loading. You must not haul meat.

 

Shippers are still loading you with mold in the trailer??? Or is the freight being cross docked at a warehouse and shipper isn't aware?? A professional reefer hauler wouldn't have any of that. It does not look good for the company or the driver showing up to the customer with equipment dirty and not up to par. Especially with food products.

You could suggest having a set area for trailer washouts at your yard. Preferably a place where you can get trailer on a bit of an angle.

 

By your profile, I see you are in Indy. Indiana has made the news lately about cracking down on food haulers. Contact the Indiana State Board of Health.

 

It is hard to imagine a split load like that on a reefer. It is really a shame and I am surprised that a company would operate that way and not want to have clean trucks. My husband hauls reefer also and some of the places they go to do require washouts and the receipts to prove so. They also haul produce which require washouts, some before and esp after things like bulk potatoes which he hates because it gets down into the rails a lot; most of these companies are very picky. He has even washed out after hauling onions because it smelled so bad. They also haul as a dry van load too, so if a mess were made of any sort it would need to be cleaned out also and hopefully whoever dropped the trailer made sure it was cleaned out of the major debris 1st before dropping. He recently bought a leaf blower to make sweeping it out easier.

 

A leaf blower in the trailer? Won't that blow infectious things all over him? Even when I use my leaf blower on my porch I get spider webs, grass, and leaves all over me since that area is kinda enclosed with three walls.

 

Im surprise your getting loaded with food product,they inspect my trailer at shipper before they load a pallet if is not clean guess what,they wont load anything.

 

I have a feeling this guy drives for a private fleet and hauls their own product, and doesn't do backhauls just my opinion

 

I know it has been a few years, but the meat plants that I used to haul out of in Kansas and Nebraska either required a washout receipt, or had their own washout, with their own crew, that cleaned out every trailer that came in, before it could be staged at the dock.