Boxwheel Trailer Leasing Insights
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Is Cargo in Your Dry Van or Reefer Trailer Secure? How to Ensure It Is.
It’s a sound you don’t want to hear: You have just started a trip and you apply the brakes or round a corner and a thud or the cracking of wood tells you that the cargo in the back of your dry van trailer or refrigerated trailer has shifted and something has been damaged. You pull over, open the cargo door and discover that you have some clean-up work to do and will be having an uncomfortable conversation about the cost of whatever has been destroyed.
What To Do If Your Tractor-Semi Trailer Rig Breaks Down on the Road
Nobody ever expects a breakdown, but you always have to be prepared for one. Reacting properly helps protect you and other drivers around you. It can also minimize the damage to your tractor and/or semi trailer.
10 Important Steps for Securing Loads on Flatbed Semi Trailers
Many accidents occur every year because an improperly secured load falls off a flatbed semi trailer. In some cases, vehicles behind the trailer strike, or are struck by, objects and are damaged. Flying cargo can also damage property adjacent to the roadway. In addition, the sudden shifting of a load can cause the truck driver to lose control of the rig, resulting in a single-vehicle accident. For these and other reasons, whether you rent a flatbed semi trailer or have your own equipment, it’s vital that you know how to immobilize any loads you haul.
Top Technologies Changing the Trucking and Semi Trailer Industries
As with all businesses, stakeholders in the transportation industry—from trucking companies to rental semi trailer providers to companies that transport their own goods—are continually looking for ways to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively. For many, the answer is to implement new technologies as they become available.
The ELD Mandate: Where Is the Trucking Industry Today?
If you are a trucker, you know that the regulations around hauling semi trailers loaded with goods and materials around the country changed significantly in late 2017. That’s when most in the industry were required to start using electronic logging devices (ELDs) to track the operation of their rigs.
Insights on the State of the Semi Trailer Rental Industry as 2020 Wraps Up
It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year that wreaked havoc on the status quo in virtually every area of life—from personal relationships to business operations. That is certainly true from the semi trailer rental industry.
Overview of Top Semi Trailer and Accessory Manufacturers
For a casual observer traveling down the highway beside an 18-wheeler, it might seem like all semi trailers are the same. However, the people responsible for hauling, servicing or renting semi trailers know that that’s far from the truth. Not all semi trailers are designed and manufactured the same way. And the same goes for equipment like liftgates and refrigeration units.
Semi Trailer Rentals and the Convention Industry: Pulling for a Fast Recovery
It’s estimated that conventions contributed $101 billion to the U.S. economy in 2019. Convention attendees spend money on traveling to the event site, getting around town once they arrive, booking hotel rooms, dining out, enjoying entertainment and much more. In fact, even before they leave home there is money spent on everything from new clothes to business supplies for the event.
Semi Trailer Rentals Crucial to “Essential” Transport During Pandemic
COVID-19 and the restrictions implemented to get it under control have caused significant slowdowns in many industries. However, transportation is not currently one of them. While each transportation market segment is experiencing the effects of the pandemic differently, overall the need to move goods and materials remains high, and as a result, the need for semi trailer rentals and leasing has remained high as well.
From Local Cartage to Storage: Rental Trailers Support Holiday Surges
According to the National Retail Federation, holiday sales represent roughly 20% of annual retail activity. For some types of retailers, like those that sell toys, games and hobby-related items, the number can be even higher—closer to 30%.