refer help

True you can find loads for 48's but most are requiring 53's. In today's economy you need to be able to do all. Limiting your self can Haunt you.

I have pulled a 48 footer and deadheaded 150 miles to pick up a load and I noticed that the load would not fit. Already had the load on a 53 foot trailer, nose to tail, and to the roof. Would not go on my 48 for sure, unless used a Compactor, but that would have mashed the product..

Prior to that had a Home Depot Load that took all day to load, cause they had to load, unload reload 3 times. Then it took the stores longer to unload cause the way they were crammed in the trailer.

But yes You can get loads for a 48..

 

I'd opt for the Dane, though it's no so much an endorsement for it as it is ruling out the Utility. If it were a drybox you were buying, and asswipe and tampons were the comodity you'd haul, then a 53 would be the way to go, but with reefer freight a 48 will get the job done. Mines a 48 and I will overgross it long before I run out of space in the trailer and I have had every type of produce imaginable in it.

OTOH, if one wanted to load it like a railcar, a 53 would be nice....(grin)

 

48' will get the job done don't worry but reefer loads = heavy stuff. they will ask for a 53' sometimes so even if you got the 53' you still can't load more then what your allowed unless you take a dry load haha. but if the 48' is a spread then MOST DEFF the 48' is the way to go.

 

We have two great dane 48' reefers, one with stainless steel other aluminium.
The 48' stainless is heavier by 1350 pounds. Might as well buy a 53'