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Curtain trailer speeds oods turn round
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SIDEWINDER is to be launched by York Trailers at the Commercial show this year and they claim that it offers a better turnround and more secure loading for the operator.
The 12.2-metre (40ft) semitrailer has one side curtain on each side that rolls up like a bathroom blind.
York Trailers say that one of the main advantages of the new trailer is that it comes direct from the maker with no need for it to make a stop at a bodybuilder first.
It has a one piece prestressed aluminium roof with a single centre support that can cater for the widest pallets. The curtain cannot be damaged by fork-lift trucks in loading or unloading because it has been wound out of sight by then. York claims that the curtains (one per side) need to be tensioned in the vertical plane only being self-tensioning horizontally. The curtains clip along the side rave and, once secured, are tensioned by further winding.
One centre pillar per side is used with the vertical curtain arrangement.