Freeze Protection for Your Cold-Sensitive Goods

Freeze protection for your freezable freight

YRC Freight helps you protect cold-sensitive LTL freight shipments.

Special handling procedures, weather monitoring, drum, pallet and tote covers provide an extra level of protection when needed, and indicators in the YRC Freight tracking system help manage your temperature-sensitive freight shipments.

Decades of experience protecting temperature-sensitive freight
An almost claim-free rate for freeze-protection freight shipments
Thousands of technically engineered and environmentally friendly insulated covers available when and where you need them
Pickups of temperature-sensitive freight shipments are made Monday through Friday for LTL service to all direct points in the continental United States and to/from Canada and Mexico
Procedures are in place to protect your LTL freight in transit and over the weekend, using warm rooms as needed
Protects products that freeze at or below 32° F/0° C
Easy to get started:
- Contact your YRC Freight account executive or terminal to request the option.
- Once arrangements are complete, simply write Protect from freezing on your bill of lading

Download our Freeze Protection brochure (447 kb PDF).

Freeze-protection service safeguards your LTL freight shipments

Continuous AccuWeather forecast monitoring
Distinct labeling on waybill and shipment paperwork
Procedures for protecting LTL freight while in transit
Sheltered areas to hold cold-sensitive freight in severe weather
Knowledgeable customer-support professionals
Freeze-protection service available for LTL and other freight shipments between direct points in the continental United States, Canada and Mexico
Real-time freight shipment tracking
- on the YRC Freight website
- through our toll-free, interactive, voice-response telephone system

No other national carrier maintains a near-perfect claim-free record on cold-sensitive freight shipments.
Many carriers can't match YRC Freight's nationwide coverage

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