At my company we mainly use roll doors. We have a couple older trailers where the roll doors just broke and they welded swing doors on. The issue is, you still have that beam on the top seeing as how that's a support for the trade and cannot be removed. So you can put swing doors on, but the dimensions will still be the same.
Roll up door to swing door conversion on a 53 ft reefer trailer
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by tonher, Apr 6, 2013.
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Are the trailers same width?.. and he buy trailers usually with bad doors and we measure cut and build and put a seal around the door and replace the hinges.. but ours are the dry. I'm not sure how hard the reefer would be to convert. But if its possible and its been done and can be done. You just need to know where to go
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The vast majority of roll-door trailers are 96" wide. Swing doors are 102" wide. Lots of shippers w/ light freight want to cram every cube they can. I've gone to shippers who double pinwheel the pallets (loaded width-wise instead of lengthwise) all the way back to the doors. Not possible on a 96" trailer, do-able on a 102".
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