These semi trailers are highly specialist and rarely become available. Suited best to high volume, low payload trunking operations, these trailers are usually kept on a fleet for many years. The overheight trailer will contain two levels, often with an internal tail lift to reach the upper level. Loading these trailers is therefore more difficult than a standard trailer and additional training is required. The trailers can be either curtainsided or a box style trailer which can be loaded only from the rear.
One of the UK’s premier providers of hotel laundry hire and services, Johnsons Hotel Linen, has started to introduce three fixed double decks and fifty-two rigids to its fleet, with a focus on durability to meet its testing operational schedule. The decision to partner with Tiger Trailers was made after a visit to its specialised facility in Cheshire by Leigh Anscombe, Johnsons’ National Transport Manager. The order for the trailers was placed initially, and the first delivery took place in October 2023, along with twenty 18-tonne rigids, all manufactured with robustness in mind. Anscombe says: “From our first introduction to…