The lifetime of van trailers is normally estimated to be about seven years. In recent times, the transportation industry has been making efforts to engineer trailers so that their lifetime can be ...

Havco Wood Products LLC, a leading provider of composite flooring for trucking applications, has rolled out the Fusion Floor, which it calls the “newest generation” of composite flooring. Havco said ...

When it comes to maintaining your dry van hardwood or composite trailer floor, fleet maintenance managers should follow the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared. Most of the dry vans running on the road today ...

In the endless quest to make trailers lighter, sturdier and more thermally efficient, some trailer manufacturers are expanding their use of composite materials, which could offer the potential for a ...

Rockland’s Defender Composite Flooring for trailers and containers uses a laminated wood component with a water impermeable fiber-reinforced thermoplastic underlay adhered to the wood’s bottom surface ...

Martin Marietta Composites, Inc. announced the completion of its first composite trailer manufactured in its Sparta, NC plant. The 48 foot, live-floor transfer trailer is the first composite trailer ...

This story appears in the March 9 print edition of Transport Topics. Trailer manufacturers have been pursuing weight reduction for years, trimming pounds from body materials and suspension components ...

Martin Marietta Materials has entered into a licensing agreement with Composittrailer n.v., of Lokeren, Belgium, to manufacture and market commercial truck trailers in North America, using ...

TrinityRail’s new refrigerated railcar features a composite primary load floor that enabled weight loss of 4,500 pounds and facilitated an innovative, industry-first secondary flooring system that ...

Teardrop trailers typically feature a wood body, sometimes with an aluminum skin, but manufacturers large and small have been moving away from the wood and toward all metal and composite constructions ...

Martin Marietta Composites rolled out a 48-foot, live-floor, transfer trailer, the first composite trailer of its type made in North America. The trailer weighs 13,140 pounds and has a capacity of 125 ...