reefer News Updates

The California Air Resources Board’s deadline for food transporters with model-year 2003 transport refrigeration units to install retrofits is March 31, the agency said.

The need for total control of the “cold chain” — every point in a refrigerated shipment’s environment — is driving demand for more efficient ways of maintaining cargo temperature during the transfer of goods between dock and trailer.

California environmental regulators can continue enforcing the state’s refrigerated transportation unit rule that went into effect on Jan. 1, a federal appeals court ruled.