Dry van, 101" vs 102" wide

102" swinging doors wider vs 101" roll door if I remember correctly.
Fram filters would only want to load swing doors so they could load 4 skids at a time straight in.

 

It MIGHT be 101” wide if they have a protective runner along the wall parallel to the floor. The inside wall to wall might be 102”. I’m not sure what measurement the new trailer you’re looking at is advertising; from the wearband or wall to wall.

 

My Utility is 101.5" inside. The main reason for being asked for 102" inside is for can loads. Most general freight will not have any issues and they are really trying to stop people with the pull down doors since they are under 101" inside.

When I ran a shop and shipped stuff out I would make sure that the broker knew this information because some Joe blow junk trailer would show up with pull down doors. We custom made skids and had to have the 101" to fit them in the trucks for what we did.

If you do any amount of Can loads than I would make sure you get the 102" inside.

 

It's actually the door opening only that becomes the problem in 99 percent of the locations.

 

Can, like soda can/beer can?

 

Oh I see, that makes sense.

 

Almost any kind of those aer an issue. They do not put them on Skids and Floor load them.

 

Interesting I had no idea. Thanks for sharing. There used to be a place in Hazelwood MO that shipped packing peanuts and they’d have super tall pallets and would gripe when we’d show up with roll doors (which in LTL was all of our trailers). We’d shave a layer off the top and then throw them back on once they got clear of the door. Then the dock guys had to do the same to unload em, and again to reload em in a pup. I’m sure that made their day.

 

Yeah that makes it a pain in the SSA. I loved doing the Can loads since they are light as can be and pretty fast at loading most of the time. Pay was always decent as well. Have not done any in a long time because my trailer is 101.5".