Food and beverage fleets are the most frequent users of a refrigerated truck, but other including medical transport depend on these trucks to keep their cargo cool until delivery.
Incorrectly spec’ing a refrigerated truck can be costly to both a fleet and a company’s clients. Knowing what mistakes to avoid when spec’ing can go a long way to impacting the bottom line and increasing company business.
Critical elements in determining medium-duty refrigerator body specifications include maintaining optimal cargo area temperature and designing a cost-effective, energy-efficient vehicle.
The deadline has passed to begin complying with the Food and Drug Administration’s new regulations on the safe transport of food. The regulations apply to vehicles, operations, driver training, and records. Is your fleet ready for the new rules?
The way Americans get their groceries is changing – and that's affecting refrigerated transporters and the equipment they buy.
As the final piece of the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is set to take effect, small fleets are assessing ways to switch from a manual recording of temperature inside refrigerated units to an automated process.
Securing loads is a matter of safety and good business. If a piece of cargo is damaged because it shifts or falls off a trailer, the carrier and driver won’t be paid because the load didn’t get delivered, and someone could get hurt or killed.
Complying with both vehicle and food safety regulations, keeping vehicles on the road with minimized downtime, and ensuring route efficiency are all ways food and beverage fleets are leveraging telematics solutions to help with their operations.
Since adopting the SmartDrive video-based safety program, Helwig has reduced bodily injuries by 60%, seen 44 initial claims from plaintiff attorneys dropped once they saw the SmartDrive video, and reduced its DOT scores for both crash indicator and unsafe driving.
The new Kold King refrigerated truck body is 200-pounds lighter and up to 25% more thermally efficient, delivering more payload, less fuel consumption, and fewer TRU hours.
Three new models have been added to Carrier Transicold’s next-generation Supra series of diesel-powered truck refrigeration units, providing more powerful cooling choices for small to large box trucks.
Performance Advantage, a new range of service agreement plans, has been designed to help refrigerated fleets cut costs, improve service, and reduce downtime.
Two new, rightsized "connected" fleet truck concepts, powered by Panasonic software and cloud services platform OneConnect, can help create a more agile approach to commercial truck needs, according to the company.
It's Isuzu's biggest truck in North America. But does that mean it's a departure from the OEM's tried-and-true design philosophy? HDT's Senior Editor, Jack Roberts, climbed behind the wheel to find out.
Thermo King's SLXi Local transport refrigeration unit (TRU) is designed to be up to 200 pounds lighter than comparable TRUs to increase payload capacity.
ConMet says its new eHub can power electric or hybrid vehicles - starting out with an alternative, fuel-saving way to power trailer refrigeration systems.
Carrier Transicold gifted a Supra 960 truck refrigeration unit to Three Square Food Bank in Southern Nevada.
Carrier Transicold’s free app for mobile devices that helps refrigerated truck operators find nearby Carrier Transicold dealerships has been upgraded with a fresh appearance, expanded dealer database, and new user features.