Keeping your fleet on the road is more than just ensuring your trucks are ready to roll; trailers need love, too.
The choice of trailer components such as suspensions, sliders, and wheel ends, is pretty complex – and spring suspensions are making a comeback in some areas.
According to FTR, preliminary U.S. trailer orders for August increased 49% since July to 28,700 units, the biggest jump since October 2019.
Trailer upper coupler or bolster plate and kingpin inspection and maintenance is just as important as the inspection and maintenance of the fifth wheel.
XL Specialized Trailers’ recently introduced XL 120 hydraulic detachable gooseneck (HDG) 3+2 trailer boasts a 120,000-pounds-in-10-feet concentrated capacity rating and a 18-inch deck height.
Stoughton Trailers built its 50,000th dry van trailer for UPS in mid-August at its Stoughton, Wisconsin, facility.
Thermo King has officially launched a new elite and standardized service model after successfully piloting the program at dealerships in North America and Europe.
Carrier Transicold’s new high-efficiency Vector HE 19 unit is its first North American transport refrigeration system to use the next-generation refrigerant R-452A exclusively.
Michelin North America recently unveiled the Michelin X One Line Energy T2 tire, its most fuel-efficient trailer tire to date, according to the company.
“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.