Does All 48 ft load require air ride??

you should ask your customer, who else would know what they want?

 

The Swift fleet of dry van trailers, which are quite a few thousand trailers, are all spring suspension. At least I've never seen a Swift dry van that wasn't.
Their reefers, which are also a substantial quantity, are all air suspension, which is what I usually pull (occasionally have to swallow my pride and pull a dry van, but it's never my first choice).
While it's common that I'll pull a dry van load in a reefer trailer, I'm unsure if has to do with customer preference for air ride or not. They just tell me to go get the stuff and I go. I certainly don't mind pulling loads in reefer trailers that don't require me to actually run the reefer unit.

 

I guess I’m not following exactly, but if it doesn’t affect your customer, why wouldn’t you just go ahead spec equipment that allow you more flexibility in load options? I’m unsure of what the dilemma is?

 

Spring suspension just beats you(and the cargo) to death ,
Why would you not want air bags ?

 

Man all u got to do is pull a spring ride for a week. The ##### will try to beat you to death

 

For sure
Sounds like this driver has never pulled a old spring ride trailer .

I’ve pulled em with a spring ride cabover.
Ugh, won’t do that again .