Heavy Duty Trucking, July 2015
2015 Trailer Update Heil MATS booth featured a 53 foot 9300 to 9500 gallon aluminum petroleum tanker with a steerable liftable 20000 pound tag axle behind the 34000 pound tandem for use in over 80000 pound CGW states like Nebraska Colorado and Wyoming In Oklahoma and other states they have hauled crude oil from wellheads directly to close by refineries bypassing bottlenecked pipelines Mac Trailer Among 14 flatbed dump wet and dry tanker and trash transfer trailers Mac exhibited in its large booth at MATS were a lightweight flatbed 9840 pounds that had a narrow neck and long 47 inch upper coupler area and Lo Pro Elite curtainside sliding mechanism for side handling of sensitive cargo And an aggregates and asphalt hauler with a Keith V slat moving floor allows discharge inside buildings under trees and other areas with restricted overhead clearances 62 HDT JULY 2015 Trail King Hydraulic booster axle adds thousands of pounds of capacity to the lowboy its attached to then folds up for travel aboard the empty trailer not a new item by any means but creatively shown at MATS climbing over fiberglass dirt and rocks Trail King announced it will return to the steel end dump business which it left during the Great Recession and recently acquired aluminum grain trailer maker Dakota Trailer Manufacturing Hyundai Translead Two dry vans and two reefers had the latest wall and floor technology at MATS The reefers had LED strip lighting instead of traditional fluorescent lamps LEDs use fewer amps and provide bright white illumination Coming next sliding mounts so the LEDs can move to where activity is wiring to allow movement is being worked on Hyundai also showed a composite flatbed a 53 footer with among other things aluminum winch rails and galvanized steel crossmembers Kalyn Siebert Extreme series lowboy at its MATS booth had a removable gooseneck Hydraload tandem equalizing system and a 60 ton rating A steel step deck had 48 and 68 inch deck heights was extendable from 53 to 77 feet and was set up for coupling to a jeep trailer and mounting rear booster axles It was capable of doing the work of four or five separate trailers THE LATEST OFFERINGS Talbert TA series travelingaxle lowbed shown at MATS had structural changes that raise bed height slightly but lower tare weight and add about 5 tons of payload Ratings range from 40 to 55 tons more tie down points are standard and a larger hydraulic cylinder moves the axles quicker Talbert promotes Valspar Aquaguard undercoating that guarantees three year protection against corrosion and usually lasts seven years at a quarter of the cost of galvanizing
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