A Quick Breakdown Between a Temperature Controlled TOFC and a Temperature Controlled COFC

Both Truck on Flat Car and Container on Flat Car offer many more advantages as opposed to traditional Over the Road shipping.  Both are a safe and efficient means of transporting your goods.  Temperature controlled intermodal can offer the following benefits:

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Third Party Auditors

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Why Build Your Own Freezer?

Invest in your product not a warehouse

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Pallet Dividers for Faster Freezing

Pallet spacers, also known as pallet dividers, are used to help air flow circulate throughout a pallet.  They are placed in between the layers of cases on a pallet to keep the cold circulating evenly so each case freezes equally.

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Don’t Skip the Tour!

If you’re going to trust your profits and the safety of consumers to a warehouse, it’s a very good idea to see the facility yourself. There may be the occasional extenuating circumstance that makes this impossible, but if you can at all see the facility yourself, do it.

The first thing we recommend

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Hometown Service with Nationwide Capabilities

McCook Cold Storage prides ourselves on our ability to provide small-town customer service philosophies.  Combine that with our state-of-the-art equipment and technology and you have a refrigerated warehouse solution that matches any of our larger corporate competitors.

Since 2006, we have provided safe and efficient temperature controlled services to a diverse range of small

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The Truth about Temperature Abuse and Why You Need to Stop

Edward Everett Hale once said, “I cannot do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do.”

Turn on the news and sure enough there are plenty of problems from global warming to foreign policy. It can be difficult to know where to begin. In the logistics industry, there

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3 Reasons to Pre-Cool Your Reefer

Spring is always an exciting time because it is a reminder that summer is right around the corner, which is often filled with barbeques, grilling, swimming and more fun.

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Pizza Las Vegas!

Chicago is world-renowned for our Deep Dish Pizza so we at McCook Cold Storage thought that we absolutely must check out the 2015 Pizza Expo in Las Vegas.  Although we did not exhibit at the expo we were not disappointed with an abundance of pizza samples with more toppings than you can imagine.

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Peace of Mind Through Inventory Control

Part of the WMS (Warehouse Management System) that’s at the heart of McCook Cold Storage is the online inventory function.

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