Now, this was just dying out when I started driving, and I personally never drove such a load, but I DID see a few guys still doing this in the mid-late 80's. Maybe a few real old-timers can add more info…
So, there is a lot of citrus that ships from Florida up to New York, especially along the I-95 corridor (and years before, up US 1) that needs to be kept cool. Reefer units have been around since probably the late 1930's, but they were expensive and unreliable, not to mention heavy. A…
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