What exactly is "Air Ride Equipped"

now that's funny.roflmao!:smt065

 

Our trailers have a BIG "H" that looks somewhat like this:
just before the AIR RIDE, so our trailers are actually HAIR RIDE Trailers. I frequently have to brush the cinnibun crumbs off my face to accomodate the nubiles who want a HAIR RIDE.

 

Same thing as "FM Radio". No one knows why.

 

So here’s a related question, what percentage of Fed-X trailers have air ride? Their trailers have always been different, spec for air freight containers,
Much better safer air lines and bumpers
So much below axle level u can’t see what they use, seems like I saw an air ride dolly in between however, does that sound right to anybody?

 

The flashed part I finally got it, funny?
That’s hilarious I think I broke a freakin rib!
U gotta dirty mind but hell wonder what they think it looks like

 

It's not that special.

Marketing shine for those who do not know anything about trucks.

Most trucks have airride suspension on the trailer. You can have the freight ride really good back there, better than your personal Cadillac. Particularly if you have a full airride suspension, cab airride and seat airride. A bad road is soaked up pretty well.

On the older trucks spring suspension was the rule. You feel everything on that bad road. It has destroyed the cargo. One time I picked up a load of Tomatos flown in by KLM Airlines from Holland that morning. And there were the tomatoes in 24 balsawood straw lined cases under 900 pounds of green peppers in regular hardwood cases on TOP.

All of the pallets went into the trailer. 6 of them. Tomatoes were on the bottom.

That trailer that day was a 45 foot reefer did not have a airride suspension and the tractor was a classic 83 freight shaker. which did not have airride anywhere. Solid steel from the tires to you. You had a airride seat but that's replaced every few years because it gets beaten down by the bad roads back then in the 80's

Arrived in Norristown PA from Kennedy Airport in NYC the following morning. Opened the doors and there was 24 cases of smashed tomatoes.

Now if it was presented to me today to load on the same run, I would have pulled over a mile or two from the airport and put the knife to work and restack the tomatoes into the sleeper berth. The peppers will stay in the reefer. No operation of temperature needed in that season of spring time.

The result of the smashed tomatoes at the Norristown grocery distribution center in PA, was the use of three payphones at once. One contained my dispatcher, one contained the world trade center people who arranged the load and airfreight and one contained a international to the shipper in Holland in Dutch.

So I have a tower of babel problem. One in profanity and sputtering about money, one howling about stupid truckers and one speaking a language I should not understand very well. It would have been better if they tried German.

Anyway after a hour of that, I hung all three phones up. Got rid of the load, signed out damaged OSD etc. and went on the rest of the week in the north east. But that was back in the 80's The towers are gone, destroyed. The people likely gone as well. And so are the spring suspensions for the most part.

It's all airride now.

Anyone who thinks they can splash a pretty graphic for industry types to go ooooh airride. Load that company first. They don't yet know trucking. But will learn.

This is not the public that message is for It's for the shipper and recievers we go to who might be suffering from cargo damage from no airride due to a trucking company trying to be tight fisted and cheap running without airride. (And they wonder why they cannot retain drivers...)

It's all good. In the future you will see trucks marked robot or remotely controlled for your convenience and safety most likely. (Yah right, Bulllll ####...) Stay as far from them as you can.

 

It's not that special.

Marketing shine for those who do not know anything about trucks.

Most trucks have airride suspension on the trailer. You can have the freight ride really good back there, better than your personal Cadillac. Particularly if you have a full airride suspension, cab airride and seat airride. A bad road is soaked up pretty well.

On the older trucks spring suspension was the rule. You feel everything on that bad road. It has destroyed the cargo. One time I picked up a load of Tomatos flown in by KLM Airlines from Holland that morning. And there were the tomatoes in 24 balsawood straw lined cases under 900 pounds of green peppers in regular hardwood cases on TOP.

All of the pallets went into the trailer. 6 of them. Tomatoes were on the bottom.

That trailer that day was a 45 foot reefer did not have a airride suspension and the tractor was a classic 83 freight shaker. which did not have airride anywhere. Solid steel from the tires to you. You had a airride seat but that's replaced every few years because it gets beaten down by the bad roads back then in the 80's

Arrived in Norristown PA from Kennedy Airport in NYC the following morning. Opened the doors and there was 24 cases of smashed tomatoes.

Now if it was presented to me today to load on the same run, I would have pulled over a mile or two from the airport and put the knife to work and restack the tomatoes into the sleeper berth. The peppers will stay in the reefer. No operation of temperature needed in that season of spring time.

The result of the smashed tomatoes at the Norristown grocery distribution center in PA, was the use of three payphones at once. One contained my dispatcher, one contained the world trade center people who arranged the load and airfreight and one contained a international to the shipper in Holland in Dutch.

So I have a tower of babel problem. One in profanity and sputtering about money, one howling about stupid truckers and one speaking a language I should not understand very well. It would have been better if they tried German.

Anyway after a hour of that, I hung all three phones up. Got rid of the load, signed out damaged OSD etc. and went on the rest of the week in the north east. But that was back in the 80's The towers are gone, destroyed. The people likely gone as well. And so are the spring suspensions for the most part.

It's all airride now.

Anyone who thinks they can splash a pretty graphic for industry types to go ooooh airride. Load that company first. They don't yet know trucking. But will learn.

This is not the public that message is for It's for the shipper and recievers we go to who might be suffering from cargo damage from no airride due to a trucking company trying to be tight fisted and cheap running without airride. (And they wonder why they cannot retain drivers...)

It's all good. In the future you will see trucks marked robot or remotely controlled for your convenience and safety most likely. (Yah right, Bulllll ####...) Stay as far from them as you can.

 

Somebody should tell the trailer manufacturers that spring ride trailers are obsolete, so they will quit building and selling them bouncy things. lol

 

Why is it printed on the container instead of the truck? Doesn't make sense because it'd just limit how to match the trailers and containers when it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the container itself.

 

Because they are talking about the trailer suspension.