I have a possible chance of a european job runningdown to valencia in a fridge motor can any one give me the best directions from santander and as it has been a while since i have done fridge work what is the best temprature to keep the fridge at and what to look out for regarding speed traps and any other info you can give me would be most greatfull
best wishes tom 
TOMLEWISWD63DW:
I have a possible chance of a european job runningdown to valencia in a fridge motor can any one give me the best directions from santander and as it has been a while since i have done fridge work what is the best temprature to keep the fridge at and what to look out for regarding speed traps and any other info you can give me would be most greatfullbest wishes tom
I’m sure a reefer expert will be along shortly but the temp i would imagine IMO would depend on what you are transporting, whether it’s frozen/chilled/abmient etc etc.
Regarding speed traps the best thing to do is DONT SPEED 
, I cant help their as i dont do contiental work.
cheers
James
as it has been a while since i have done fridge work what is the best temprature to keep the fridge at
TOMLEWISWD63DW:
I have a possible chance of a european job runningdown to valencia in a fridgeHI ANY MORE JOBS GOING THERE
No doubt your company will tell you what temp or just ask at point of loading
you will love it, best work around is fridge work sometimes a bit of a wait loading/unloading (take a DVD player)
GOOD LUCK
Love the job your in or somebody else will !!
superdix:
‘… best work around is fridge work…’
Unless aiming to be ‘Mr Popular’ in a lorry park is also an ambition…
Maybe plan breaks away from others so as not to irritate resting Johnny Foreigner?
TOMLEWISWD63DW:
I have a possible chance of a european job runningdown to valencia in a fridge motor can any one give me the best directions from santander and as it has been a while since i have done fridge work what is the best temprature to keep the fridge at and what to look out for regarding speed traps and any other info you can give me would be most greatfullbest wishes tom
Is that for Continental Express ? hope u dont mind me asking
TOMLEWISWD63DW:
what is the best temprature to keep the fridge at
Depends on the load / goods. Frozen usually has a fairly set figure of around -21 C to - 25 C and even that can vary upon, who says what. Ice Cream, for example, can be different. Chilled, anything from 1 to 5. If you don’t know what to set it at ask where you load it, or look on the notes / CMR
Wheel Nut:
as it has been a while since i have done fridge work what is the best temprature to keep the fridge at
you dont want your milk or butter going off! the thermo fridge in my Daf is about 40% round, just right for a can of Red Bull 
On the limited amount of fridge work I’ve done,you are always told,and it’s usually on your notes,what temperature you need to be at,depending on your cargo.
The sender of the goods has to take all precautions that you leave with the correct instructions regarding temperature,so that if you do arrive on site with something wrong,then it’s down to the driver.
You will soon find out that when parking up on crowded park,you have no friends!
Happy Keith:
Maybe plan breaks away from others so as not to irritate resting Johnny Foreigner?
Actually you usually find Johnny Foreigner doesn’t say a word about your fridge running. This seems to be the only country where other drivers get irate about running fridges!
On the temp scenario … you will always be told what temp to run at. One little ‘trick’ I used to do was to precool the box. If you are running to Valencia, it is 90% certain you will be pulling fruit, ie oranges. They run at about 5 degrees. On a warm day, it is always advisable to precool the box. The fruit is usually bought out of a chiller to load but crap happens and sometimes it is sat on the dock. This can result in your fridge screaming for many hours trying to bring the temp down.
I went to Chipiona area a couple of years ago to load grapes early one Saturday morning. In September!!! I arrived having bought the box down to 3 degrees. I backed on the bay eventually, doors open and fridge now off. It was warming up quite nicely. They loaded 24 pallets of grapes and then decided there was a problem. The boxes were not the right weight. (■■?, don’t ask me lol ). So they pulled all 24 pallets off and left them on the open dock. A crew was called in and EVERY pallet was broken down, each box weighed and more grapes added. Now this little exercise in crap loading had started at 9am. It was now 4pm and they started reloading. Seven hours of sitting in 31 degrees had warmed those grapes nicely.
The result was I finished loading at 6pm and decided to make this stop into a 24 (which was needed) as I had arrived at 8am that morning. So I parked up and set the fridge for 6 degrees. Five hours later the fridge was STILL screaming and down to just 13 degrees!! I actually turned it off that night cos of the noise. Next morning I set off at 10am and although that fridge ran all day, I never got the temp down. In the end, the next day I bought the temp down one degree at a time. This meant stopping every hour and resetting the fridge dropping it one degree at a time but after two days I eventually got it down to 6 degrees. Thankfully the receivers never asked for a print out!!!
As thebear says johnny foreigner doesent bother about fridges and also as said if going to Valencia it will problely be oranges or tangerines back to uk so ples five or six ,i always check the temp of the fruit when loading and if it is warm when loaded it is possible to freeze the top of the pallets, if the fruit is warm you want cardboard on top of the first 6 or 8 pallets to prevent this happening then as thebear says bring it down a degree at a time,
With oranges at plus 5 its not easy to freeze them but with grapes and peaches it easy to freeze them then they go black (claim££££££)
If you are down there tom keep an eye out for me ahl prob be on Poole Santander sat am,s then in Hotel Simba just south of Nules.
Ihave never gone direct from Santander as i usually tip either Ondarhoa or Pasajes and i go via Pamplona then Tudela Teruel on the n234.
Some lads i know go via Madrid but i would go via Logrono,n111 Soria n234 all the way down theres a lot of newly built roads on that route now.
The road from Tudela is a dream now, Klunk. I usually run along and then take the Ricla road which has been all nicely repaved etc, then at Carinena swing left onto the Teruel road which is 95% motorway now all the way to Valencia … tis actually quite boring now.
TheBear:
then at Carinena swing left onto the Teruel road which is 95% motorway now all the way to Valencia … tis actually quite boring now.
Should that not be turn right ? or has Valencia moved lately â– â– ? 