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Equipment and what it suits
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Freight equipment
What each trailer and container type is for, how it loads, and what constrains it.
Equipment decides more than it looks like it should
The unit a shipment travels in determines how it can be loaded, where it can be delivered, what restraint it needs and what happens if access at either end is worse than expected. It is one of the few choices in a freight movement that is difficult to change once made.
These pages describe what each type is, how it loads and unloads, and which cargo it genuinely suits.
Why there are no dimensions here
Internal lengths, payloads and cubic capacities vary by manufacturer, by specification, by the weight of the tractor unit and by the regulations of the country a vehicle operates in. Published from memory they are wrong somewhere, and a wrong payload figure is the kind of error that strands a load.
None of these figures is sourced yet, so none appears. Where a specification matters for a shipment, it is confirmed for the actual vehicle or container being used rather than taken from a website.
Equipment
Equipment covered so far.
Mega Trailer
Equipment and what it suits
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Equipment and what it suits
Read moreRefrigerated Trailer
Equipment and what it suits
Read moreFlatbed
Equipment and what it suits
Read more20ft Dry Container
Equipment and what it suits
Read more40ft Dry Container
Equipment and what it suits
Read more40ft High Cube Container
Equipment and what it suits
Read moreReefer Container
Equipment and what it suits
Read moreOpen Top Container
Equipment and what it suits
Read moreFlat Rack Container
Equipment and what it suits
Read moreNext step
Move from the directory to the freight decision.
Choose the page that matches the movement, then define the actual route, cargo and date.
European road freight