trailer doors double swing out / roll up

YES, and so would checking the mirrors on BOTH sides........this is driver error.

YES. polished doors help drivers, when especially at night, some jerk 4 wheeler has his bright lights (high beams)on.......the light reflects off the polished doors, and blinds the 4 wheeler. then he crashes and burns and hopefully dies..............

many companies do "'sell" advertising space. but it IS time consuming, especially if and when the sign that is posted, needs to be cleaned up or touched up/repaired. now you have a trailer that can't go no where's.

this i do not know............i cannot drink milk.........so i don't really think about it, and probably never will either.

 

Hello, 25, thanks for answering the milk tank question.

You will see a D-ring on each door and a hook on the side of the trailer to hold the doors open. I don't know why his door came open. The single roll up door takes up room on top when it's opened and careless forklift drivers can hit that door while its opened and damage it.

Those doors take a lot of abuse, and stainless steel holds up better than painted wood.

Remember that you don't know all the places these trailers will go. Some towns might consider this a rolling sign and require you to get a sign permit. Imagine doing THAT in every town you roll thru.

I agree with 25 on this one, and will add to it: Tankers have a "sandwich" of insulation between the outer shell and the inner shell. Best practices also state that you should fill the tank full, because it takes a LOT of energy to raise the temperature of 7000 gallons of liquid.

You're welcome, and welcome to the forums.

 

Roll up doors can be damaged by fork trucks. Back when I peddled boxes; a lot of the drops were in tight places off of busy streets. Having to get out and open the doors created more of a time delay for holding up traffic. Also in some of those places pulling out was a pain because there was often no room to close the doors until you were in traffic. Sometimes the trailer would be in a lean causing the doors not to close right and you would have to pull up again and then get back out of the truck in traffic again.

Sometimes the D ring is broken or the chain is gone and someone has put a wire or makeshift device to hold the door open. Some trailers did not use D rings. Instead they had a bar that was spring loaded that held the door open.

 

Being from California....I'm going to say that I have seen trailers vandalized, and severely damaged because a certain gang did not like what was advertised. You might think "what the heck could be so offensive about something as simple as this?" and trust me, it should be nothing, but that will not stop some of the crazies out here. Some drivers may not want the responsibility.

 

As for damaging the door that swung loose while the driver was backing: I have learned you don't trust those chain moorings because all you need is a good wind to blow your door against the side of the trailer or to hit a decent size bump...or just back down an incline...and those chains will lose their tension and fall off those hooks. Then you have a free swinging door just looking for something to hit.

Solution: hook a bungee cord to the chain and stretch it back to the slider rail, hook it there. Don't do this until after you've slid your tandems, if that's what the customer wants. I've never had this method fail.