Roll up door to swing door conversion on a 53 ft reefer trailer

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.

 

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

 

Reefers get loaded with dry loads too. I've seen them at paper mills as well. I've always envied the reefer guys that get loaded as they get the "baby loads" weight wise.

 

i have the same situation...im looking to purchase a trailer and the roll up trailer is in better condition and a lot cheaper....but in yime past when dealing with diffrent brokers they ask do you have swing doors...ive been shopping around trying to get aprice o the conversion from roll up door to swing doors...i was told about 4 -5 thousand dollars...but at the same time i want to see how it looks

 

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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