Translucent roof.

allows for light in the trailer.

 

Yep, as noted.. clear roofs allow you to be able to see even while up to the docks.. most trailers are dark when backed up to dock and its a lot better to have light from the roof than being blinded half the time by a dock light.

 

It makes it good and hot in the trailer in summer sun as well.

 

lighter then a solid roof too every pound saved is another pound of stuff they cram in

 

They're lighter and it's nice to have light in the trailer. But I'd never personally own one. To much of a pita to repair and in a decent to pretty bad hale storm you can kiss that roof goodbye. And as murphy's law would have it that hale strom will hit right when you have a few 100K if electronics in your trailer.

 

Not like those ocean containers are cool in the summer! lol.. like working in the sweatbox in the movie Cool Hand Luke..

 

most of them I worked with was when I was doing lots of LTL and P&D work.. you can find what your looking for in them and most of the P&D stuff happens in the daytime when the roof comes in handy. looking for labels and such in a dark trailer isnt a lot of fun.

 

We have a translucent roof and we are trading it out ASAP, We have repaired the roof three times (Outside seals) and forklifts sometimes wack the inside roof supports so we are forever having them fixed (Light Aluminum)