Keeping Things Cold on the Road

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.

My last post off topic...

As you should know,things are different out west in Idaho compared to Dallas/New York or Miami.Everything is on a much smaller scale.Small town grocers cannot afford the luxuries you talk about and there not 24hr operations.

When the two grocery stores in the town I live in are closed there are not any employee's inside except one night which is freight and that's just to Midnight.Same goes for other small towns..

Not sure how they do it anymore in Boise but at the time I worked there for Albertsons/Buttreys and Smith Food King,there were no alarms for refrigerated units.Buttreys was not 24/7....

But the nice thing about Idaho,even Boise where I grew up,a few miles out of town and you can hunt Elk/Deer etc and even now it's not as bad as Spokane Washington which is small compared to towns in your area.

So it's not an equal comparison to compare the small towns of Idaho to the Metropolitan areas of Texas.There are know Grocery chains North of Boise until you get to Lewiston Idaho(about 300 miles away),just local Independant type locally owned markets like Harvest foods/IGA etc etc where things are done differently than the Super Chains.

We have to travel close to 200 miles round trip to hit a Wal-Mart/Costco etc but it has the benefit of NO BS living and traffic with 1 stop light in the whole town and you can kill an Elk in less time than it takes to drive across Boise,and I know the short cuts.:B

Anyway as I have stated before,one shoe doesn't fit all whether it's grocery stores or the option to pull your RV with or without the refer going.I choose not to,others choose to do it....

And as the opp asked,yes you can travel 8 hours without having your refer going if you follow the protocal for it like pre-cooled items in the already pre-cooled frig with maybe an Ice Pack or frozen bottles to help..Yes I have done it without issue.Warmer climates need extra preparedness but wrecks happen way to often and it's not your fault sometimes like the one below that a fella just pulled out in front of him pulling his new trailer home from a Spokane dealer to Orofino Idaho...He is glad the propane was off...

This is just one of 5 such wrecks in the last three months within 50 miles of my house and one reason I choose to run with the propane shut off because I can't control the other guy driving while I'm towing.