Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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70 commercial carrier journal | april 2017 PRODUC TS HEALTH & WELLNESS PAVILION GATSonline.com REGISTER NOW and we will keep you posted on EVERYTHING to look forward to this year in Dallas! TRUCK PARKING COMMUNITY • Free health screenings • Cooking demos • In-cab fitness demos • Healthy food options • Health-related vendors • Daily meet and greets and celebrity appearances • Live performances at the booth • Prize giveaways and drawings drawings • FREE Truck Parking • Shuttle bus transportation to convention center • Showers, food vendors and entertainment • RV parking (no hook-ups) • RV parking (no hook-ups) Enhanced trailer lineup Stoughton Trailers has redesigned several features of its Z-Plate and Aluminum Sheet & Post dry van trailers to help reduce mainte - nance, improve durability, increase interior space and provide more standardization so that they are interchangeable between both types of trailers. An updated top rail design allows for the sidewall sheet to extend up behind the lower portion of the top rail to improve water shedding. By eliminating drilling holes in the top rail, water tightness has been improved. Roof bows now are connected using a T-bolt and slot design, which allows re - placement roof bows to be installed entirely on the trailer's inside, reducing instal- lation time and the need for exterior scaffolding. The roof bow is pushed up into position, making the replacement process cleaner without caulk smearing, which occurs on trailers where roof bows have to rotate up over a flange. Dry van corner posts and top corner castings now feature interchangeable common corner components, which reduces the number of parts needed for trailer repair. The redesign also increases the Aluminum Sheet & Post corner panel to 0.125 inch from its original 0.050-inch thickness. The casting profile overlaps with the top rail to provide an improved fit and a better water shed. The updated corner posts also create a square interior corner, allowing full-width cargo placement to extend to the front lining. Stoughton's updated Z-Plate lower rail design is 3½ inches taller, allowing rivets to be placed 3½ inches higher, which moves the rivets away from the scrape zone. A re - designed aluminum side rail and scuff combination has been increased to a full foot in height. The scuff prevents damage from loading and unloading with no exposed attachments that loads can snag or tear out. A redesigned rear impact guard provides improved underride protection over the full width of the rear end without added weight. Stoughton Trailers, www.stoughtontrailers.com, 800-227-5391 Air suspension SAF-Holland's lightweight CBX23 AeroBeam air suspension has a base weight of 465 pounds – 45 pounds lighter than the previous-generation CBX23 – and a 23,000-pound-rated fixed-frame suspension suited for flat - beds and tankers. The suspension has heat-treated cast-alloy beams, 80-ksi frame brackets, a 5¾-inch-diameter friction-welded axle and a flexible frame attachment system engineered to fit a wide range of trailer types with multiple frame bracket styles, including weld-on tapered top, weld-on with wing and bolt-on. The suspension is treated with the company's Black Armour hot-dipped corrosion protection and is available with the NewP89 or P89 Plus Air Disc Brake System and SAF's Auto-PosiLift Automatic Axle Lift System programmed to automatically lift the front axle in a trailer tandem a minimum of 4 inches when it senses that only one axle is needed to carry the load. SAF-Holland, www.safholland.us, 888-396-6501