Refrigerated freight pays more — but only if you can hit the appointments, protect the temps, and negotiate against brokers who know produce is time-sensitive. We book high-paying reefer loads, manage the schedule, and handle the paperwork so the premium ends up in your pocket.
Reefer is a higher-paying lane than dry van, but it's also higher-stakes: tight appointment windows, temperature liability, and receivers that will hit you with detention or a claim if anything slips. As your dedicated reefer dispatcher, we take the coordination off your plate so you can focus on protecting the load and the miles:
Refrigerated and temperature-controlled freight covers a wide range: fresh produce, meat and poultry, dairy, frozen foods, beverages, floral, and even some pharmaceuticals and packaged goods that ride "protect from freeze." That variety is your advantage — when produce slows in one region, we pivot you to protein and frozen so your truck stays booked year-round.
Produce season moves around the country — California and the Southeast heat up in spring and summer. We move your lanes with it and fall back to frozen and packaged food in the off-season, so you're never stranded on a dead lane.
Reefer demands more phone time than any other trailer type: confirming temps, calling ahead on appointments, updating receivers, and negotiating lanes that swing hard week to week. Doing that from the driver's seat is how good rates slip away and detention piles up. A dispatcher who lives in the reefer market keeps your average rate high, your schedule tight, and your reset days actually restful.
Setup takes about a day: send your MC/DOT authority, insurance, W-9, and a signed dispatch agreement, tell us your lanes and home time, and we start booking. Most drivers are loaded within 24 hours. See the 4-step process or learn exactly what a dispatcher does.
Usually, yes. Refrigerated freight carries a premium over comparable dry van lanes because of the equipment, fuel for the reefer unit, and the tighter service requirements. We target those premium lanes so the higher rate offsets your higher operating cost.
Yes. Produce and food freight often runs on strict first-come-first-served or scheduled appointment windows with multiple stops. We build your schedule around realistic transit times and keep brokers and receivers updated so you're not eating detention.
We watch produce season and shift your lanes as volume moves — California and the Southeast in spring and summer, and back to protein, frozen, and packaged food in the off-season — so you're not stuck on one drying-up lane.
Reefer dispatch is billed as a flat weekly fee or a percentage of linehaul, depending on your operation. Because reefer rates run higher, the fee is easily covered by the rate improvement. Contact us for a free quote.
Tell us your lanes and your rate goals. A dispatcher will reach out with a plan — no obligation, no long-term contract.
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