yeah you got me bang to rights guv
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One of the big supermarkets once sent me on a 45 min run to a store with mixed chill/ ambient load in a normal box trailer (no fridge), it was mid winter and quite cold out there and it was in my early days of driving so I assumed this was normal practice.
I recall a quite few years when driving was a lot better than it is today early December, loading frozen meat hampers out of Reading Cold Store in a standard box vehicle, had a week on it, loading a 7am around 15 drops, all private houses. Used to double your wages in tips, was the only thing that was good about it though.
i used to load frozen orange juice from Rotterdam, and tip it it Somerset. In a tilt. In summer/spring time.
A bloke I worked with when I was doing chilled had once worked for a company that did chocolate and confectionery products. They had insulated trucks without a fridge unit.
Everything was chilled when loaded and the box kept it cool.
It is a legal requirement that perishable foods should be kept refrigerated at 8ºC or below. Frozen food should ideally be kept at a temperature at or below -18ºC.