Fish is one of the least forgiving things to carry. It has to stay cold from the market or smokehouse to the counter or kitchen, and the van has to be easy to wash down at the end of every day. At GRV4 Fridge Vans we sell refrigerated vans to fish merchants, seafood wholesalers and smokeries, from chiller vans for fresh fish to freezer vans for frozen and smoked products.
Chiller or freezer?
Fresh fish and shellfish go in a chiller van. If you carry frozen fish, or smoked products you keep frozen, a freezer van is the better choice. If you carry both, a dual-temperature van with a bulkhead between a chilled and a frozen compartment means one van can do the whole round.
Built to be washed down
Every conversion has a fully insulated load space with a hygienic, easy-to-clean interior. For fish we recommend adding a drain hole, so meltwater from the ice and wash-down water runs out of the load floor instead of sitting in the van.
Options that suit fish and seafood
- Drain hole in the load floor, for ice melt and washing out.
- Aluminium on the wheel arches, to protect them from fish boxes and make them easier to clean.
- Curtains across the doorway, to keep the cold in on every drop.
- Fixed partition or moveable bulkhead, to keep fish apart from other stock.
- Load lock rails along both side walls, to stop boxes sliding.
- LED lights in the load space, for early starts at the market.
- A calibration certificate for the temperature display, for your food safety paperwork.
Small, medium or large
We sell fridge and freezer vans from small vans like the Citan, Kangoo and Transit Connect, through medium vans like the Transit Custom, Trafic and Vito, up to large vans like the Sprinter, Master and Crafter. We help you choose by looking at the inside size after conversion and the payload, because boxes of fish and ice add up quickly.
New and used, with finance, delivered anywhere
Plenty of our fish customers are on the coast, a long way from us in West Sussex. That’s no problem: we can arrange delivery anywhere in the UK. We keep new and used fridge and freezer vans in stock, offer competitive finance for business and personal customers, and take part exchanges.
See our fridge vans for sale and freezer vans for sale, or call us on 01444 245555 to talk through what you carry.
Also see: Butchers · Food Wholesale · Grocery & Dairy · Catering.
