Keeping Things Cold on the Road
Interested to know how long things in refrigerator stay cold while traveling and if anything in the freezer thaws out if we're on, say, an 8 hour road day. Just bought a TT and haven't used it yet.
Forum Discussion
jaycocreek wrote:2012Coleman wrote:
I think a couple of posters on this thread should get togther for dinner - main course being previously cold/frozen food that has been sitting on the loading dock due to lack of space in the refer. Talk about hearsay...
Wow..Can't happen huh?Unfortunately it's not heresay..Ever wonder how often the frozen food coolers go out or for that matter,any of the coolers in a grocery store..They do,really..What happens when that cooler goes out after the store is closed an has no employee's or even,what happens when it goes out during business hours..Well,they have to empty the coolers into baskets and push them into a walk in cooler..That's great when caught early..
I have no hearsay on grocery stores or the business itself.In my off months logging I worked for several chains from box boy/checker/frozen dairy mngr/meat department/produce manager and a sent in the deli and at one time,asst groc mngr.
Unfortunately,sometimes the consumer has know idea..Sad,but it happens.
Ask me a question and there will be no hearsay.:B
A poorly run operation, and lack of knowledge.
We have an alarm system for every cooler in the store. There is no way a failure goes unnoticed. We just had a store lose power for over 12 hours.we closed it, brought in refer trucks and pallets of dry ice.we used over 300 hours of overtime.
We still lost a few thousand dollars of product, and about 150k in sales. But saved several hundred thousand in product.
And you should know that the grocery bussiness is 24 hours a day. Even when a store is closed, there are employees working. Trucks make deliveries at all hours. It never stops.
