Walmart rolls out ‘first of its kind’ 60-foot multi-temp reefer trailer

Yes I remember when we went from 48’s to 53’s and all the 53’s had the numbers on them. What I was referring to was that it was peculiar that the 59’s in Texas had no numbers back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. I hooked to one to take a load to Tennessee and only realized it was a 59 when I opened the doors to put my load locks in. Very likely was a Texas specific rule that they didn’t need to be marked back then. The 59’s are marked now, but the ones I hooked to were not back years ago.

 

the added time of splitting them to back into docks makes it’s not profitable. They’ll probably just use them on corridor runs

 

Takes maybe 5 minutes to split a super b and 5 minutes to hook it back up.

 

Takes a little more than that. There’s a reason why companies got away from that B train setup. Plus the infrastructure of having to buy and maintain 2 reefer units , another set of axles etc. like I said I can see this on the edm cal corridor, or even the Regina Saskatoon one.

 

Unless you wear a ________ on your head. Then it takes 3 hours and hitting 17 parked cars.

 

that was very unnecessary. But yes splitting trains in a parking lot isn’t a great idea

 

Watched a certain driver just trying to back in a single last month, hit 2 parked cars.

When they learn how to drive, nobody will have to say anything else.

 

“A 60ft Reefer! Boy Howdy, I Would Love to see that thing in action in New York City! The ultimate road test for all new drivers to the industry must successfully complete there first load pulling a 60 ft reefer in New York City!

 

They dont allow those things on the east coast
I pulled 57' reefers for a few years and we were pretty limited on where we could go in most states