Transport and routing

Ankara UKOME decision 2024/99 leaves a food van two windows on 27 central avenues and boulevards, 10.00-15.00 and 21.00-08.00; for trucks the table is tighter.

In Annex EK-2 of Istanbul's freight directive, the maximum laden weight on the registration decides whether a vehicle works 10:00-16:00 and 22:00-06:00 or around the clock.

The 21 February 2025 amendment took urban carriage of perishable food out of the regulation's scope. The certificate is no longer asked for under it, while the duty to hold food at a suitable temperature stays.

Empty containers, plates and dollies inflate a van's tare. Once the registration shows more than 3.5 tonnes, the hour limits in Article 98/A of the Traffic Regulation set the driver's day.

Door openings at stops build the service heat load. Here are ASHRAE's Dt, Df and E factors and how to keep a trip record.

If cooling depends on the engine, a breakdown stops two things at once; if the cold source is independent of the vehicle, the load no longer shares its fate. The Ministry guide says so.

Turkey's vocational module asks for the body to be brought down to the product's carriage temperature and, where time is short, caps the gap at 4 °C. That allowance belongs to the body; the product is still loaded at its own temperature.

If goods, cases or plates block airflow paths, circulation can change; map the actual load arrangement and verify it in operation.

Review fuel, airflow and icing risks in the module's open-door loading setup; do not generalise it to every vehicle.

Article 13 of Turkey's Food Hygiene Regulation requires adequate separation in mixed loads, cleaning between loads and temperatures that can be monitored. It describes the result rather than the method.

Confirm ATP scope first, then match vehicle, load, certificate, validity and marking-class records.

The Ministry's ATP inspection guide sets product, carriage temperature and accepted marking class side by side. From ice cream to minced meat the numbers are in one place, with the row shift in the guide's own annex corrected.

6 °C appears twice in the raw milk rules: on the farm when collection is not daily, and on acceptance at the plant. The four-hour exception covers only the time from acceptance to processing.

The word control covers three jobs at once: holding the condition, measuring it and recording it. Running a cooler is only one of the three.

A reefer is an electrically powered piece of sea-freight equipment: with a socket or a generator it cools the air, without one it is just an insulated box. It was not designed for city distribution.

Food made at home for sale falls under registration. For shipping, the frozen regime, the dispatch day, the box with its cold source and a route trial before selling decide the outcome.