We think of trailers as cargo conveyances, on the move, carrying their payloads from shipper to receiver and making money for their owners. The truth is, much of the time trailers are sitting still in ...

The use of electric power to refrigerate trailers is expected to surge in the coming years, according to some manufacturers and fleet operators. Government regulations to reduce fossil fuel emissions ...

This story appears in the March 30 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The two largest North American manufacturers of trailer refrigerated units each ...

Carrier Transicold on Wednesday, March 18, took another larger step into the hybrid reefer unit market, introducing the Vector 6500, a hybrid refrigerated trailer cooling unit designed for the ...

If you run refrigerated freight, you already know reefer maintenance isn’t optional—it’s mission-critical. But there’s one number that quietly determines the health, resale value, and future liability ...

Klinge Corporation was awarded a subcontract with the US Army Contracting Command to design and manufacture the refrigeration unit for the Joint Services Expandable Refrigerated Container System ...

Carrier has launched a new multi-temperature reefer engine unit that will run on either diesel power or electric standby power. The hybrid Vector 1800MT offers other advantages, too, including 30 ...

Thermo King is unveiling the Connected Precedent trailer refrigeration unit at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show (NACV), which is running September 25-29, 2017 in Atlanta GA. Thermo King, a ...

With the S-Series engine, the S-750i meets current and proposed California Air Resources Board (CARB) Ultra-Low Emission Transport Refrigeration Unit (ULETRU) emissions without the use of a diesel ...

The latest telematics technology is great, but it needs to be something that enhances good processes and procedures around the movement of temperature-controlled loads. Meteorologists may call Sept. 1 ...

News from Thermo King today is that Frederick McKinley Jones, a company pioneer in the development of portable refrigeration units, will be honored for his contributions to science and technology at ...