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Frozen goods often require temporary storage in specialized warehousing facilities before they reach their final destination. These facilities must maintain specific freezing temperatures, typically between -10°F and 0°F, to keep products stable until they are ready for transport. 

In many cases, warehousing plays a critical role in the cold chain when products need to be consolidated for shipment or stored due to unforeseen delays in transportation. Mulder Brothers partners with Cold Storages to offer these services as either part of the overall logistics process or as a standalone option, so businesses have flexibility in managing their cold storage needs.

Mulder’s Logistics Capabilities

At Mulder Brothers Brokerage, we provide complete frozen and cold-chain logistics solutions for food manufacturers and producers, food warehouses and freezers, and refrigerated carriers. Founded in 2008, we are a frozen food logistics company that manages freight movements through a network of carrier partners for reliable local-to-nationwide FDA-compliant service.

Our team offers temperature-controlled and frozen LTL service with Midwest pickups and nationwide distribution. We also provide weekly dedicated LTL service for customers who wish to set weekly truck schedules for the contracted carrier partners in our service network. Along with warehousing capabilities, cross-docking, and redelivery, we do it all at competitive rates to serve our customers with integrity. 

Our company size has allowed us to build strong relationships with our customers while still working with big-name manufacturers and distributors. For example, Mulder Brothers Brokerage is proud to be a part of the Walmart Consolidation Program. Our team has the requisite experience with large retailers to benefit our customers, and we maintain a 93% must-arrive-by-date (MABD) score. 

With a Service First™ mentality, we strive to offer full support to our customers as well as our carrier partners. To that end, Mulder Brothers Brokerage offers 24/7, friendly, and professional customer service and dispatch representatives. 

Transportation Logistics in the Cold Chain

Transportation is the backbone of any cold chain, especially when dealing with frozen products. Mulder Brothers offers a variety of transport solutions designed to keep goods frozen, from ground transportation to air, sea, and rail freight. The method of transportation is chosen based on the nature of the goods, distance, and required delivery timelines. Each mode of transport comes with its unique set of challenges and requires specialized vehicles or containers that are capable of maintaining frozen temperatures. Mulder Brothers’ logistical expertise ensures that, regardless of the mode of transport, frozen goods arrive safe, compliant, and on time.

Trucking involves refrigerated trucks with truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) options, refrigerated train cars, and more. Different types of ground transport include over-the-road (OTR), regional trucking, local trucking, long-haul, last mile, and more.

Aerial modes of transportation offer shippers an expedited delivery timeline and include temperature-sensitive options with refrigerated air cargo.

This mode of transportation t is commonly used in an intermodal shipping plan, frequently in tandem with OTR.

Sea freight systems include cold chain options for regular over sea shipments, such as refrigerated cargo vessels and reefers.

This shipping method leverages two or more different modes of transportation to deliver freight to its final destination.

Each of these transportation options must deliver stable cold temperatures and proper humidity levels throughout the journey.

Temperature Stabilization & Monitoring

One of the most critical aspects of frozen logistics is temperature stabilization and real-time monitoring. Suboptimal temperature conditions in transport or storage are responsible for large amounts of food and medicine waste each year. Food products like dairy or meat become dangerous to consume after exposure to unsafe temperatures for too long, and the same is true of pharmaceutical products.

To maintain the appropriate temperature, carriers can use passive temperature regulation, such as insulated packaging, or active regulation, like packaging that produces the internal temperature itself and preserves it through battery power. Within the interior of truck trailers, carriers often utilize a diesel engine-powered cooling system that carries refrigerant from an evaporator in the cargo hold through to a condenser at the trailer’s front. Other technologies available for the cold chain include reefers, dry ice, gel packs, and liquid nitrogen quilts.

Beyond cooling systems, it’s vitally important for service providers to monitor temperatures and provide a record of logged data as traceable proof that temperatures remained steady from the point of origin to the final destination. Service providers need monitoring systems in place that allow for real-time temperature tracking and GPS monitoring to achieve successful frozen logistics management.

Ideal temperatures vary across different types of goods. We handle temperature ranges for frozen (-4° F to 14° F) and deep-frozen goods (-22° F to -13° F).

It should be noted that because pharmaceutical freight is regulated by the FDA and Department of Transportation, there are certain limitations regarding including pharmaceutical products with LTL shipments. Contact our team for more information and to discuss your specific needs.

Reviews

Mulder Brothers Brokerage

5.0Out of 5 stars

Overall rating out of 8 Google reviews

JDL Express
a week ago

Doing business with Mulders since 2012. Never encounter any issue. Best of the best. Professional, always respectful, clean facility, and trucking friendly company. Never late with a payment. truck parking overnight if you have a picup, scale and repaire shop on site. Need to use your own funds for lumper fee. Other than that, Mulders are one of the best broker I’ve done business for longer period of time.

Kuoping Fon
3 months ago

Mani Chaudhary
6 months ago

Very nice staff,very fast loading and they have scale too Thank you for best service

Mark Greydanus
7 months ago

Great people here. Always a good experience to work with.

Noah Filipiak
10 months ago

maciek kaminski
a year ago

Prime Xpress
a year ago

best service

Chris Zimmer
a year ago

Great People, very trustworthy and dependable.

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