Haulin' eggs

[LKTraz]

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Since I talk about hauling truckloads of eggs, Rhubarb asked me to take some pictures.

Here they are!

This is my truck hooked to a trailer.




The trailer's dimensions.




It's refrigerated and we haul eggs at 45 degrees F.




The load (in this case 324,000 eggs is secured by using 3 "load locks".




Here's what that many eggs looks like. I was at the back of the trailer and the front end is just under 48 feet from me.




The next load was in a 96" wide trailer and so they are loaded differently. In a 102" the pallets are loaded sideways with the wide ends facing the front and back. In a 96" they alternate, 4 sideways (starting on the left in this case) and 3 longways. The next 7 are done on opposite sides (wide right...long left) These are called seven blocks.

There is quite a bit of space in between the pallets when loading seven blocks so we stuff that void with paper egg flats. (look in between the pallets)



Maximum load for a 102" trailer is 30 pallets and for a 96" it's 26.
Sooooooooo....that is 30 cases to a pallet, 30 dozen to a case.

30 x 30 x 12 = 324,000
26 x 30 x 12 = 280,800

Lots and lots of eggs!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Now I'm hungry for eggs. eggs! yummm

[Rhubarb]

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All those little boxes of food
That is just so neat too with the temperature gauge, I really like that.

Now I remember driving out of Easton going south and seeing all these trucks so I wonder if one was you with all those eggs.
Jeff took loads of photo's too including the size of just the wheels when we got stuck in a jam for a bit.

It is good to see you take pride in the truck, who washes it? Someone on stilts to do the windscreen.

You know we just don't have the roads over here for trucks that size.

Thank you for sharing

[LKTraz]

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Good grief! The truck is far from clean!!!!! If I had taken the pic closer and from the side you would see that it needs washed badly.

We have a company that comes in about once a month to wash them. They use a pressure washer and brushes with very long handles to get the job done. There's also a small pressure washer, brushes and a set of portable steps at our shop so that we can spruce them up a bit in between washings.

The unit on the trailer can heat or cool the load. Temperature range can be anywhere from 80 F to minus 25 F. We generally haul frozen product at either 0 F or minus 10 F depending on what it is.

[LKTraz]

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****Afterthought****

I'll have to remember to get some pics of frozen product in both boxes and tubs and refrigerated liquid in our bulk 2000 lb totes. I can get the totes tomorrow as I'm delivering liquid mix to Tastykake.

[twisteroo]

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Funny, I always just thought that you hauled the liquid eggs in a tanker. I never even thought about totes.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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LOL Trudi - and just think the boys went nuts at how big everything was on my truck!

LK, you should have seen them climbing in the engine compartment like thrilled monkeys.

[LH]

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Thats kinda cool seeing the country like that. My Dad and Grandad were truck drivers. I miss them both and today is the day my dad died Oct.12th 2005.
Give me 40 acres and I'll turn this rig around .......It's the easiest way that I found. I'm kinda drinking and looking at pictures.
I like eggs.

[LKTraz]

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Funny, I always just thought that you hauled the liquid eggs in a tanker. I never even thought about totes.

We do haul some liquid in tank trailers but the stuff in totes is mixtures. We make a baking mix for Tastykake which contains vanilla and some other ingredients that I'm not allowed to say. Makes production a bit easier for them.

The frozen stuff in tubs is liquid too. Much of that is sugared yolk for making ice cream.

[Rhubarb]

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Funny, I always just thought that you hauled the liquid eggs in a tanker. I never even thought about totes.

We do haul some liquid in tank trailers but the stuff in totes is mixtures. We make a baking mix for Tastykake which contains vanilla and some other ingredients that I'm not allowed to say. Makes production a bit easier for them.

The frozen stuff in tubs is liquid too. Much of that is sugared yolk for making ice cream.

I know what crap goes in baking mixtures and the ice-cream too. Mark worked for a fish company for awhile and an off shoot of the business was ice-cream for the 'Shake' shops that have sprung up around University towns.
Some stuff went off to be processed for 'instant mixes' to make cheese cakes and gateaux.