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Scrap and recycling
When it's beyond fixing, a reefer is still aluminum, steel and copper. We haul it and send it for recycling.
Load sheet · Free offer, no obligation
Where it goes
Typical scrap jobs
Trailers nobody's moved in years.
Old storage boxes on acreages.
End-of-life units in batches.
Before a sale or redevelopment.
Reefer sitting idle? Get a number today.
Good to know
No running gear?
Boxes sitting on blocks or ties with the axles gone still get picked up. They go on a deck or flatbed with a picker.
What we take
Recycling in depth
A reefer trailer is mostly aluminum, steel and foam, with a refrigeration unit on the front.
Before anything else, the refrigerant in the unit is recovered with proper equipment by trained people, as BC rules require. It's never vented. You don't need to arrange it. Recovery happens at the recycling yard before any cutting starts, so the gas stays out of the air.
Usable parts come off the unit first: compressors, engines, controllers, fans and coils. The rest is recycled for its metal. A unit with good parts adds to a scrap trailer's value. Tell us whether the unit ran when it was parked, because a recently running unit usually has more parts worth saving.
Reefer walls, roofs and floors often contain aluminum, and the frame and running gear are steel. Both are separated and recycled, and both have value. Aluminum is worth more than steel, so a reefer with aluminum walls, roof or floor carries more scrap value than people expect.
Foam insulation is removed and handled separately from the metal. Wet or old foam can't be recycled with the metal, which is part of why scrapping a reefer takes more work than a dry van. Removing it is slow work, and that cost is one reason a scrap reefer pays less than a scrap dry van of the same size.
Tires go to tire recycling. Fuel and oil from the unit are drained and collected. Batteries go to a battery recycler. If the unit's fuel tank still has diesel in it, tell us; it's drained before loading or at the yard.
An old reefer parked for years can leak fuel and oil, attracts pests and takes up space you could use. Recycling clears both problems. Old trailers can also draw complaints from neighbours or landlords, and some leases require them gone before you move out.
Yes. The pickup is part of the offer. You know the figure before anything is booked, and there's nothing to pay on top. We send the tractor or deck that suits the trailer, and the loading is our job from start to finish.
Empty the trailer if you can. If it's full of old pallets or junk, tell us before we price it, because hauling waste is a separate job. Bagged garbage, food waste or anything hazardous needs to come out first, because it can't go to the metal recycler.
A trailer that already had its unit, doors or axles taken off is still bought for what's left. Tell us what's missing so we can plan the load. A bare frame or box without a unit moves on different equipment, so a quick list of what's left saves a wasted trip.
Questions
No. Removal is built into the offer.
Please empty it first. Loose garbage costs us to dump.
Yes. You get one for every trailer.
Yes. The unit and the trailer go together unless you want to keep the unit.
It's removed and handled separately from the metal at the recycler.
Yes. A trailer on blocks or rims is loaded onto a deck rather than towed.
Send a photo and where it's sitting. We'll quote the haul.
