Hauling meat long distance

Polyfoam boxes are known for their insulation qualities. Polystyrene foam boxes are the standard for transporting frozen fish internationally. Only problem is they break easily. If packed with block ice & taped shut with a lid, your meat should be ok if packed in plastic bags. A portable electric fridge/freezer is a great investment. We still use an "Engel" brand that my mates father purchased over 30 years ago. This refrigerator still freezes anything inside within an hour. Only problem is the capacity. Other problem is if you pull over for a sleep you can send your battery flat.
 
Pop bottles, not cooler is what I have seen. If there is anywhere at all for the pressure to escape it should be fine. I was thinking someone would come up with the duct tape every seam idea. Not sure if it will blow the duct tape off first. Cheap one way pressure valve would work. Probably not worth it if you do this once, yearly trip it might be. If you hear an odd whistling sound I would pull over and get out the car. I would not be surprised if you could duct tape a cooler and build up pressure sufficient to blow out all the widows and send plastic through the seats and any occupants.
 
Absent heavy rain, just opening the rear-passenger side windows on that Durango maybe 1/2" will keep any buildup from CO2 from occurring. Run the heater/AC fan on medium (or high), for positive pressure inside the vehicle and exhaust through the window-openings...
 
We manufacture dry ice at our power plant. We scrup the co2 out of the flue gas and turn the liquid co2 into dry ice.
In the dry ice building we have 6 dry ice machines that produce 5 thousand pounds of dry ice per hour.
I know a little about dry ice so I want you to be clear.
Dry ice is safe but can be dangerous in air tight containers.
In a small enclosure like an automobile, you could be endangering your life pretty easy.
Please do not transport dry ice inside an automobile ever. We make everyone who purchases dry ice sign an information sheet that plainly states, no transportation inside cabs, trunks, or back seats.
I use it in the bottom of my coolers that I transfort in the bed of my truck.
A 3 inch layer on the bottom with a towel on top keeps bag ice frozen for 6 days. I leave the drain plugs out for ventilation and drainage.
 
Real canvas tarp with the meat and dry ice wrapped up inside. Lay an open rectangular sleeping bag over the top, slightly crack your window, and drive home. That's the way I did it only the load was in the back of a truck cap which I'm sure had plenty of air leaks. It was a mule deer that was quartered and frozen at a local meat processing plant. I got the dry ice right there. The deer was still froze solid after an 1800 mile drive in mid October.
 
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