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Utility Trailer’s newest design, the 4000D-X Composite with fuel-reducing Freight Wing Aeroflex side skirts.

Utility Trailer’s newest design, the 4000D-X Composite with fuel-reducing Freight Wing Aeroflex side skirts.

MAC’s new cement pneumatic trailer was balanced on a rotator from the mast of a fork-lift so that it turned slowly throughout the Mid-America Trucking Show.

A second MAC pneumatic trailer was raised overhead so visitors could see the underbody construction. Pictured are Mike Conny and Jim Maiorana.

Underbody skirts are proving the best way for 53-ft trailers to meet the EPA’s SmartWay certification program and the new California Air Resources Board (CARB) requirements. These Transtex side skirts by ATDynamics can provide fuel efficiency gains of up

Utility Trailer’s newest design, the 4000D-X Composite with fuel-reducing Freight Wing Aeroflex side skirts.

Hyundai Translead new design ThermoTech TL (for Truck Load) insulated trailer is equipped with Carrier Transicold’s new Vector 6500 hybrid diesel-electric unit that was also introduced at the Mid-America Trucking Show.

CIMC 53-ft refrigerated trailer was built in China and shipped to Long Beach CA where the tandem suspension, landing gear, and Thermo King SB-210+ unit were added. Tare weight without unit is just under 13,000 lb.

CIMC and Direct Chassis have built 25,000 of these domestic containers and 30,000 chassis in the last four years for J B Hunt. The domestic container has corrugated steel sidewalls 1.2mm (.047

Wind farms are big in Iowa, and so are the specialized trailers that haul the huge towers for wind power generation. The newest model shown at the Mid-America Trucking Show was the TowerMate II that has been redesigned from 13 feet wide to 12 feet wide fo

Schien Equipment in Carlinville, Illinois, is entering the grain body market with an all-aluminum, smoothside model designed for both bulk grain and palletized products. Besides the grain door, the triple rear doors can swing out of the way, as demonstrat

Daimler Trucks North America’s Innovation Truck showed a view of the future that isn’t all that distant. Much of the technology previewed on the tractor is already available on Freightliner’s Cascadia or will be soon.

Dominic Grote shows a flexible sheet of the new LightForm LED technology from Grote Industries.

Truck-Lite’s Department of Transportation (DOT)- compliant 7

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