TIR trailers haul tonnes of toms
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AN INSULATED, curtain sided semi-trailer is being used by Sussex haulier D. R. Bailey Transport Ltd for importing fresh fruit and for moving English crops such as tomatoes.
The semi-trailer's bodywork, built by Boalloy Ltd of Congleton, is a combination of that company's Insuliner and Borderliner designs and is to TIR specification.
A typical trip for the Boalloy semi-trailer involves the loading of refrigerated foodstuffs in Spain at ambient temperatures of around 30 deg C ready for the three-day journey to Britain. Ryan temperature calibration meters inside the body show that throughout this journey the temperature is maintained at 2 deg C by the Thermo King refrigeration unit.
The Borderliner design is claimed to be the first stretchtight, load-bearing, full-length curtain-sider to have won TIR certification.
Flip-over flaps hinged along the edge of the roof have eyelets that fit over a row of rings in the side curtain for threading the TIR sealing cable. The flaps can be locked down flush with the roof when not in use.
There is a second row of rings near the bottom edge of the body for the lower run of the sealing cable.