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What To Do When Your Trailer Gets the Boot
With a rise in trailer rejections, it's essential to address trailer sanitation standards and issues directly. Use the 1-2-3 step process to save your drivers' time, money, and frustration when a shipping inspector decides to reject your trailer.
Jun 26, 20253 min read
The New Trend In Food Trade Organizations For Transportation Companies
You may have noticed that there is a trend in what leading food trade organizations are focusing on...
Mar 19, 20252 min read
Beyond the “Dirty” Buzzword: Setting a Clear Standard for Trailer Washouts
In food transportation, dirty is one of the most commonly used—and least consistently defined—words. Scientific evidence confirms that food transportation carries real pathogen risks...
Feb 27, 20252 min read
Master Food Transport Risk Now
How you can master food transport risk now and adhere to food safety regulations.
Nov 25, 20245 min read
Clean Trailers: A Food Shipper’s Dream!
There is an elephant in the room. While I know it is true here in the Salinas Valley and Yuma, it’s likely a lurking problem at many...
Oct 23, 20247 min read
Why Cost Should Not Influence Washout Preferences
Washouts are rarely evaluated based on how effective they are in cleaning and sanitizing food transport trailers. Cost and convenience...
May 24, 20246 min read
Audits: A Key Strategy in Cargo Theft Prevention
‘Opportunity makes a thief.’ Francis Bacon Whether or not there was a specific event that happened or it was his general observance of...
Apr 25, 20245 min read
Who is in Control of your Food Safety reputation?
Attention to how transportation vendors handle shipments of food is increasing. Questions about industry standards...
Jan 29, 20245 min read
Driving The Chain: The Important Role Truck Drivers Play In Our Food Supply Network
The supply chain, with all its systems and intangible parts, can leave us with the impression that it is impersonal and independent...
Nov 21, 20239 min read
Implementing Trailer Sanitation Protocols
Preference-based or Science-based? Who’s picking pumpkins for your porch this year? The pumpkin patches are abuzz with frenzied people...
Oct 26, 20235 min read
Go Beyond The Protocol With Your Team - Train, Test And Talk
Labor Day 2023 may be behind us, but our labor, our very important employees, are in front of us, always needing our support and assistance.
Sep 11, 20236 min read
Biofilms and Chemicals: Hidden Dangers in Your Trailer
In our last blog, we shed some light on dock drama caused by the ONE person who can throw a wrench in a loading schedule--the shipping...
Jul 20, 20234 min read
TSA Style Dock Drama
Listening to driver stories about produce facility inspectors, I find myself wondering how we get anybody to do this job! There is a...
Jun 17, 20235 min read
Tips for Safe Food Transportation
Keep it clean: Get regular washouts Follow a standard protocol Know your prior cargo Avoid contamination (air, dirt, people, pests) keep...
May 17, 20231 min read
Back to School Series - Part 2
Welcome to the second edition of Healthy Trailer’s Back to School series in recognition of Food Safety Education Month. Our overall...
Sep 18, 20229 min read
Back to School Series - Part 1
Welcome to the first edition of Healthy Trailer’s Back to School series in recognition of Food Safety Education Month. Why Learn about...
Aug 31, 20229 min read
How Much Is Your Washout?
A Cost/Benefit Analysis of a Key Best Practice Almost 99.9% of the time, when we call a carrier to let them know about our trailer...
Apr 13, 20226 min read
Let Your Labor Lead: How Our Workers Put Healthy Trailer on the Map
Our Gonzales, CA Healthy Trailer site has been open now for a few months. Things haven’t been perfect, but time has still flown by. ...
Sep 4, 20214 min read
Why Germicidal UV Light Technology Is Essential For Today's Modern Washout
Here at Healthy Trailer, we’ve relied on UV-C’s disinfecting power for a few years now in our trailer sanitation business. As new stories pop up and people call to tell us they have read about another use of UV-C technology, we are really not surprised. This technology has been around for years. UV Technology’s website has a great article on UV-C’s history from the late 1800’s to present. Just as we are seeing UV-C being used in today’s...
Apr 20, 20209 min read
It’s Not About You
The Role of Social Responsibility in FSMA Transportation More than once last week I heard people commenting on the fact that St....
Mar 23, 20205 min read
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