100 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT GPS AND FLEET MANAGEMENT
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When you cover your trucks early in the morning you have plenty of time to prepare the required documents and to provide your truck driver with the necessary info as loading time, pickup and delivery address.
Plan Where Are you Sending Your Trucks
A well planned trip is profitable trip. You have to be careful where are you sending your trucks, and make sure that you have all the information to make calculation how much that load is worthwhile for you.
Try Specializing in reefers or flat bad transportation
Refrigerated Trailers and Reefers are generally used for transporting chilled or frozen products. Do you have items that need to arrive fresh or frozen? The temperature inside the trailer can be controlled no matter what the temperature is outside, so if you have frozen load, reefer trailers are the right choice for you.
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Legal weight and dimensions:
- Refrigerated Trailers max freight weight is 42,000 to 45,000 lbs.
- Refrigerated Trailers maximum freight dimension:
- Maximum Refrigerated Trailers Length- 48 ft – 53 ft
- Maximum Refrigerated Trailers Width- 8.2 ft
- Maximum Refrigerated Trailers Height- 8 ft
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Flatbed Trucking serves the needs of customers who are transporting special equipment or material like over length, oversized, overweight… this trailer has no sides, no roof which gives the flexibility of its proportions.
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Examples of typical cargo:
- machinery
- scaffolding
- lumber
- tubing
- scaffolding
- steel products
- construction equipment
