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2020 Holiday Supply Chain Volatility for Van and Flatbed Freight Companies

During this COVID 19 pandemic, the trucking industry is facing many complications. Challenges to move goods using key supply chains and components are compromising deliveries. Transport challenges that van and flatbed trucking carriers. This holiday season has added a strain on flatbed transportation carriers throughout the nation.

Staple goods like toilet paper and others are hard to keep on the shelves so that strategic supplies can be moved to hospitals and health care providers as needed. These goods need to be moved as part of this essential operation. Some manufacturers such as auto production facilities shifted their production lines to manufacture personal protective supplies.

2020 Holiday Supply Chain Volatility for Van and Flatbed Freight Companies
2020 Holiday Supply Chain Volatility for Van and Flatbed Freight Companies

Van and flatbed transportation companies shifted priorities to move these essential goods explaining the empty shelves for other more staple items at stores across the nation. As this latest type of supply map was accepted as the new normal flow of goods; responsibilities, assets, personnel, and processes were balanced in everyday changes to accomplish this new normal needed to fight back the pandemic.

The best managers that can adapt to these changes will survive all others that may be more intelligent or stronger.

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Over Dimensional Shipping using MegaMAX US Trailer

Another groundbreaking trailer has been engineered by the Faymonville Group for the ease of transportation of the most complicated over-dimensional shipping moves. These trailers are used for the movement of tall or bulky cargo frequently by industries for any type of oversized shipments. These feature exceptionally low ground clearance just for this purpose.

Trailer for Oversize Shipping
Trailer for Oversize Shipping

These trailers exhibit hydraulic Pendle axles in their three-axle version with pneumatic suspension. This is quite a unique option accompanying kingpin steering with the override remote control enabling the most precise ability to place a load where it’s needed. A steerable fourth pin on a flip axle air ride increases versatility as needed when traveling from state-to-state increasing adjustment to keep the payload within regulation.

The two types featured for the Mega Max Heavy Trailer are a mini and a stretch deck design. Height adjustment can be changed continuously during the loading process offering the most flexibility of any trailer using a detachable gooseneck.

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DualMAX trailer 10 axle line equipment haulers

Manufactured by “Faymonville Trailers to the Max” in 5 production facilities: Luxembourg, Belgium, Poland, Italy and Russia this 10-axle dual max trailer is modular and features a dual-lane system that can move the most complicated payloads. Because of the patented lift and shift system available in this trailer, the most versatile and complex cargoes can be moved easily in today’s challenging northeast economy.

DualMAX trailer 10 axle line

Even when loaded the axles and chassis can be widened from thirteen feet eleven inches up to sixteen eighteen and even twenty feet. Adapting on the fly state by state to adhere to each state’s regulations cannot get any easier with the use of this advanced trailer. Adjusting your equipment haulers is quick, responsive, and safe.

DualMAX trailer 10 axle line

 

To form just the size trailer that is needed to move even the most complicated oversized transport these dual max bogies are available in several axle lines. They can be steered and suspended thanks to the Pendle axle system hydraulics. In keeping the maximum stability recommended the axles operate independently of each other following the most advanced engineering requirements for maneuverability and safety, to date.
Allowing the trailer to be widened even when fully loaded the lift and shift system provides steerable angles up to 55 degrees with a total stroke of 29.5 inches with a maximum load per axle of 52,000 pounds at 50 miles per hour. The trailer remains static because the steering rods do not need to be disassembled during the adjustment process.

DualMAX trailer 10 axle line

When ready to return to home base this trailer can be easily condensed to fit on a normal flatbed trailer for the return leg of the transport. Gooseneck and drawbar configurations are available for this trailer allowing for the incorporation of many decks and accessories to accentuate this highly versatile trailer.

Heavy equipment carriers move suspension beam systems, perimeter widening decks, extra-low transformer decks and turntables with this over-dimensional trucking trailer and its adjustable features. In meeting all the DOT requirements all configurations can be easily adjusted for over-dimensional shipping in the USA and all North America. The Faymonville DualMax trailer is a modular heavy haul platform trailer using the widen able patented lift and shift system that was designed and developed specifically for heavy equipment transport companies in North America.