Quick answer: This is where Cyan Logistics keeps its long-form guides for refrigerated shippers. Right now that means our Reefer Carrier Vetting Guide, Reefer Receiver Playbooks for five major grocery receivers, and a PO-to-POD receiver checklist. The vetting guide is a free PDF download. The playbooks and checklist are free to read on the site, no email required. Weekly lane conditions live in Market Intel.
Reefer Carrier Vetting Guide. How to vet a reefer carrier before you tender a load: authority, insurance, identity, the driver and the truck. Includes a printable checklist. Free download with your name and work email.
Reefer Receiver Playbooks. What it takes to get a reefer load received at the big grocery DCs, from PO to POD. Each playbook lists its sources, starting with the retailer’s own supplier documents wherever they’re public.
Reefer Receiver Readiness Checklist. Everything to have ready for a grocery DC delivery, from the PO and the appointment to pulp temps at pickup and the paperwork after.
Market Intel. A weekly read on where reefer capacity is running hot or cooling off, with a report for each commodity: Produce, Protein, Dairy and Frozen.
Articles. Shorter reads on picking a reefer carrier, protein carrier relationships and what one temperature excursion really costs.
Shippers, logistics managers and transportation buyers moving produce, protein, dairy and frozen freight. They’re written in plain language by people who run reefer loads every day.
Yes. The first one is the Reefer Carrier Vetting Guide. New downloads will be listed here first. We’d rather publish one guide that’s accurate and useful than a shelf of PDFs nobody reads.
Yes. If there’s a receiver, a lane problem or a cold-chain question you want covered, tell Alex Stanton at alex@cyanlogistics.net · (909) 972-1006.
Cyan Logistics is a refrigerated freight broker and an authorized agent of D&L Transport (MC#512088).
Yes. The Receiver Playbooks, the checklist and Market Intel are free to read on the site with no form. The Reefer Carrier Vetting Guide is also free; we ask for your name and work email to send you the PDF.
Kroger, Walmart, Costco, Albertsons/Safeway and Publix. There’s also a general Reefer Receiver Readiness Checklist that works for any grocery DC delivery.
In Market Intel, updated weekly for produce, protein, dairy and frozen.