Pulsing Back-of-Trailer Lamps Aim to Prevent Crashes
Can the addition of a pulsing brake lamp on the back of a trailer prevent rear-end collisions? FMCSA seems to think so, if its exemptions are any indication.
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Can the addition of a pulsing brake lamp on the back of a trailer prevent rear-end collisions? FMCSA seems to think so, if its exemptions are any indication.
Trailers are 13 feet, 6 inches high, right? Not for Hub Group, which developed a special 14-foot-high trailer spec for a dedicated customer based in California. Learn more in the Trailer Talk blog.
A new round of emissions control regulations decreed by the California Air Resource Board will begin affecting refrigerated trailer and TRU design and operations next year.
Are you getting the most out of your trailer telematics investment?
You don’t always know what’s in the trailers that pass you on the road. But some of those trailers are carrying something a little more dangerous that frozen food or new bedding…like, maybe, a nuclear weapon. But this isn’t an ordinary trailer; this is a trailer specifically made to not only carry this type of payload, but protect it at all costs.
Can trailers play a more active role in sustainable transport beyond aerodynamic add-ons or low-rolling-resistance tires? Some companies think so.
“We don’t only deliver freight. We deliver awareness.” That’s what Jim Barrett, president and CEO of Road Scholar Transport, likes to say about the Dunmore, Pennsylvania-based carrier’s “awareness fleet.” Its latest trailer wrap honors the everyday heroes of the pandemic.
Groendyke Transport watched the number of rear-end collisions with its trailers rise steadily until it tried an unorthodox and then unapproved method of alerting following drivers that its trucks were applying brakes and slowing down.
In places such as New York City and Detroit, overwhelmed hospitals and mortuaries are using refrigerated trailers to store the bodies of people killed by COVID-19.
Wabash National is partnering with C&S Wholesale Grocers to test a new type of zero-emissions refrigerated trailer.
What is a smart trailer? Spireon says it has an answer, with its recent introduction of Intelligent Trailer Management.
Healthy Trailer LLC offers a trailer sanitation service that helps carriers meet Food Safety Modernization Act rules, and says it has scientific testing to prove it works.
Dunnage air bags are becoming one of the most popular solutions for freight stabilization and protection in van trailers
LPG trailers often look like an LPG tank on wheels. Not the one from Exosent Engineering on display at the recent North American Commercial Vehicle Show.
A $42 million verdict in a tragic crash has brought attention to the question of whether trailers should have side underride guards. We explore this question in this Trailer Talk.
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