Wasn't any produce I hadn't hauled. Strawberries could be the worst. I would put a coffee can
with about a inch of bleach in it and set it on the floor just inside the doors. Run with it till I was
100 miles from drop then remove it, open vent doors to air it out. Kept hair from growing on
the berries. When loading strawberries they all better be on the green side. Shippers liked to
stove pipe the berries-put ripe ones on the bottom of flats and cover with green ones.
Hauling a iced load such as corn on the cob, ice it with layer about 6 inches thick on top open
vent doors to get it melting to cover the floor with ice cold water. Run north to Redding reice
the load shut the vents and haul a$$ to Seattle or Vancouver B.C.. Had a guy bump the dock
next to me at Safeway with iced load of corn from Nogales. Never melted it down and reiced,
the corn on top was blistered from ice the corn on the bottom was cooked from road heat.
Total load was rejected.
Ice Berg lettuce they would squeeze gate it in and rip the shute down everytime.
I did like hauling flowers out of Half Moon Bay, very light and could haul a$$.
