Stoughton Standardizes Components, Plans New Refrigerated Trailer for 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Stoughton Trailers announced it redesigned both its sheet-and-post and composite trailers with some standardized components to improve operational aspects. Also, it offers a retrofit kit of its redesigned rear impact guard that is standard on all of its new trailers.
In addition, Stoughton said a new thermally efficient, lightweight yet strong refrigerated van is in the test-and-development stage, including with some carriers throughout 2017, and will be available to order in the fourth quarter for production in the first quarter of 2018. The door is tripled sealed and the floor has a standard rating of 12,000 pounds and a heavy-duty rating of 16,000 pounds.
The redesigned features on its composite and sheet-and-post trailers “will improve durability, and reduce maintenance and component parts inventory,” Stoughton CEO Bob Wahlin said during the Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting here. TMC is a division of American Trucking Associations.
The changes affect the top rail, roof bows and front wall assembly, Stoughton said. Plus, its new aluminum side rail and scuff combination increased to 12 inches in height. Also, the new Z-Plate lower rail is three to six inches taller, allowing rivets to be placed three to six inches higher.
Its redesigned rear impact guard is standard equipment on all new trailers and available as a retrofit kit for Stoughton trailers built within the past 10 years, the company said.
The redesigned guard is intended to prevent underride at the protective device’s outer edges, known as a 30% offset crash, in the event of an accident at the rear of the trailer, Stoughton said.
The rear impact guard protects the full width of the end of a trailer, without added weight to the trailer and at no additional cost to the customer, Stoughton said.
