Insulated Trailers

[jeremyj621]

I'm not a real-life trucker and can't for the life of me find any Google information defining what insulated trailers are and how they differ from conventional dry-goods trailers, so could anyone please explain it to me?

[Ragequit Inc.]

The clue is in the name. ;)

[pieperjohanns]

They have thicker walls so they don't get hot inside.

[Karlia]

Insulated trailers be they made from sandwiched foam and poly panels or from double (insulated) / triple (super insulated) layered curtains.

The benefits are you can carry chilled goods in a ambient evironment for longer if forwarder allows it.

Dry goods curtains depending on the ambient temperature some forwarders allow up to 12 hours for chilled goods.

Add a thermoking or equivilent you have what a lot call refrigerated but correct terminology is temperature controled..

[Karlia]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

They have thicker walls so they don't get hot inside.

or cold

[XBL Laberbacke]

Originally posted by KMC:

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

They have thicker walls so they don't get hot inside.

or cold

What kind of cargo has to be kept warm?

Also, I'd skip the insulated trailers and go straight for the fridge ones because they can do chilled AND frozen.

[Karlia]

Originally posted by XBL Laberbacke:

Originally posted by KMC:

or cold

What kind of cargo has to be kept warm?

Bulk food grade oils for starters, be it insulated tanker or IBC's

Castor oil
Coconut oil
Cottonseed oil
Grapeseed oil
Groundnut oil
Illipe butter
Lard
Linseed oil
Maize/Corn oil
Olive oil
Palm oil
Palm olein
Palm stearin
Palm kernel oil
Palm kernel olein
Palm kernel stearin
Rapeseed oil
Safflower oil
Sesame oil
Sheanut butter
Soyabean oil
Sunflower oil
Tallow

The min and max temps vary for each product but castor oil has the lowest Minimum of 20°C and Tallow a Max of 45°C some of the more robust oils like Maize, safflower can be hauled at ambient....

I wont get in to chemicals but I hope you get the idea..

[jeremyj621]

Originally posted by KMC:

Insulated trailers be they made from sandwiched foam and poly panels or from double (insulated) / triple (super insulated) layered curtains.

The benefits are you can carry chilled goods in a ambient evironment for longer if forwarder allows it.

Dry goods curtains depending on the ambient temperature some forwarders allow up to 12 hours for chilled goods.

Add a thermoking or equivilent you have what a lot call refrigerated but correct terminology is temperature controled..

Thanks, this does explain the difference ;). I'd have to agree with XBL Laberbacke though: if goods have to be kept cold, it makes more sense to go straight to a refer trailer which can maintain a constant temp.

[Karlia]

Originally posted by jeremyj621:

I'd have to agree with XBL Laberbacke though: if goods have to be kept cold, it makes more sense to go straight to a refer trailer which can maintain a constant temp.

Absolutely, you have no argument from me there :) Temperature control is pretty much all I do in ETS

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[jeremyj621]

Originally posted by KMC:

Originally posted by XBL Laberbacke:

What kind of cargo has to be kept warm?

Bulk food grade oils for starters, be it insulated tanker or IBC's

Castor oil
Coconut oil
Cottonseed oil
Grapeseed oil
Groundnut oil
Illipe butter
Lard
Linseed oil
Maize/Corn oil
Olive oil
Palm oil
Palm olein
Palm stearin
Palm kernel oil
Palm kernel olein
Palm kernel stearin
Rapeseed oil
Safflower oil
Sesame oil
Sheanut butter
Soyabean oil
Sunflower oil
Tallow

The min and max temps vary for each product but castor oil has the lowest Minimum of 20°C and Tallow a Max of 45°C some of the more robust oils like Maize, safflower can be hauled at ambient....

I wont get in to chemicals but I hope you get the idea..

OK, so insulated trailers are best for goods which don't react very well to drastic temperature changes which can occur in in a non-insulated trailer?

[Karlia]

Non Insulated = approx 12 hours for anything that is chilled.
Insulated = approx 48 hour (depending on product)
Temp Controlled = untill its use by date expires with chilled goods... frozen goods.... justkeep circumnavigating the globe (if you can afford the diesel to do so or until you get sick of it)

[jeremyj621]

Originally posted by KMC:

Non Insulated = approx 12 hours for anything that is chilled.
Insulated = approx 48 hour (depending on product)
Temp Controlled = untill its use by date expires with chilled goods... frozen goods.... justkeep circumnavigating the globe (if you can afford the diesel to do so or until you get sick of it)

Thanks. Very informative. ;)