Tiger adds value with two trailer launches
Tiger Trailers recently unveiled two new product iterations at Road Transport Expo: a refrigerated trailer significantly tailored for retail milk transport, and the company’s inaugural design 44-pallet step-frame double deck.
Tiger’s ‘Siberian’ range of temperature-controlled products entered the market in 2020, and this latest order of bespoke reinforced reefers destined for use in the dairy industry has been designed to withstand harsh operating conditions.
Packaged milk transported in milk tets are secured by load securing bars but can be subjected to lateral movement, so Tiger has equipped its solution, which has a completed tare weight of just 9,500kg (including fridge and tail lift), with insulated side panels with integral steel sections that mitigate sidewall separation.
Mitigating the detachment also prevents product from trespassing between the side wall and the kick strips, which effectively rots the structure from within due to the corrosive nature of the dairy products.
A reinforced floor rated to ISO1496, additional load restraints, recessed and protected tail-lift controls, and interior cameras also form part of the specification, which is finished off with a Carrier Vector 1550 refrigeration unit combined with the Carrier EcoDrive (Tractor unit gearbox provides fridge unit power) and a retractable single piece platform Dhollandia tail-lift.
On the ambient front, the trailer-builder’s latest step-frame double deck box van trailer, which was also exhibited at the Expo alongside the milk specification fridge, has been designed to transport 44 pallets, signalling a capacity gain of an additional four pallets for operators in palletised freight, retail and other sectors. The lifting deck at the heart of the trailer is powered by Tiger’s in-house four hydraulic cylinder, direct drive system.
Throughout 2023, Tiger reports that it has manufactured a continually growing number of double deck longer semi-trailers (LSTs) for its wide-ranging end users, in both box van and curtainsided guises. Primark, XPO, Wincanton, and fast-growing Willmotts Transport are among the Cheshire-based OEM’s high-profile customers operating double deck LSTs.
Scottish haulier, M&H Carriers, recently took delivery of a bespoke double deck curtainsided LST from Tiger whose benefits include eight extra UK pallets per journey, 1-2 fewer lorries on the road each week, and a reduction in carbon footprint, CO2 emissions and fuel spend.
