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Shipping Temperature Sensitive Products? Consider these Best Practices | LaodProof


This is another best practice on shipping temperature sensitive products. If you’re shipping temperature sensitive products, like if you’re doing some kind of a food distribution or shipping some kind of pharmaceutical products and perishables, even frozen products things like that. 

One thing that you could do is when these are transported, in frozen state then you’re going to have some kind of a refrigerator truck. Even produce goes through a refrigerator truck but slightly not as cold as a frozen product. While transporting such temperature sensitive products you can apply a thermal quilt on the product to make sure the temperature does not go beyond a certain limit or whatever the values that you’ve agreed in your contract. There are thermal quilts available which are thermal wrapping sheets or wrapping material available that you can wrap your pallets with, so the temperature does not exceed. 

You can take pictures of how nicely you’ve applied the thermal quilt on these pallets and how you followed the instructions perfectly like taping up on top of the thermal quilt. You would have taped it nicely and secured it nicely to the pallet. You can take those pictures and upload to LoadProof, so the next day when somebody questions you, you have those pictures and you can show them. 

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