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Sep 19, 2010

TRAILER MAKERS * Canada - Wolf leading truck safety pack

Wolf Trailer Company is on a roll ... Or rather, it is on an anti-roll

Vernon,BC,Canada -The Vernon Morning Star, by Graeme Corbett -September 18, 2010: -- After three long years of research and development, the Vernon-based company is on the verge of beginning production on its roll-coupled trailer hitch, something that is set to revolutionize trucking safety and productivity, simultaneously... Larry Wulff, who heads the company’s research and development, is calling roll-couple technology the most significant improvement in the trucking industry in the last 80 years... Traditionally, trucks pulling pony trailers, quad full trailers and A-trains have been attached using pintle hitches, but Wulff said they do nothing to prevent trailers from rolling over in situations where drivers are forced to take evasive maneuvers when driving on highways... Truck and trailer combinations using Wolf’s roll-couple hitches can’t roll independent of one another, meaning a rollover is less likely to happen... He noted some existing trailers would not be able to be retrofitted because they might not be capable of withstanding the extra stresses involved with using a roll-coupled hitch. But he added the money earned from hauling increased payloads would likely pay the trailer off within a year... Wulff said New Zealand is currently looking at revising its regulations to adopt the roll-coupling technology, and he expects Australia, with its performance-based standards, will soon follow suit... (Photo Vernon Morning Star: Wolf Trailer Company puts a fully loaded, roll-coupled logging truck through a roll stability test on a massive tilt table in Ashcroft)

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Sep 6, 2007

Trailer Productivity * USA - Security systems, trailer tracking; interior lighting solutions

Akron,OH,USA -Fleet Equipment Magazine. In August 2007, by Seth Skydel -5 Set 2007: -- According to the International Cargo Security Council, U.S. businesses lose $10 billion per year in merchandise theft, and the average value of a cargo theft is $500,000, a number that has grown fivefold in the past 25 years. Other estimates range even higher, placing losses to cargo theft as high as $25 billion annually... While that alone causes concern, a growing number of motor carriers have come to view cargo theft as more than just an economic issue. Instead, their concerns now include national security... For those reasons, the trucking industry is increasingly interested in ways to deter and prevent the theft of in-transit cargo. Working with dispatchers, drivers and operations personnel to increase awareness is part of that effort. At the same time, motor carriers have also adopted a range of technologies, including mechanical and electronic-locking devices as well as systems for tracking assets such as untethered trailers...

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