11/03/2019
🚛DRY VAN
🚛Dry van trailers are closed box trailers without temperature control.
The largest amount of the world’s cargo is moved by dry vans.
- These trailers are fully enclosed and protected, and they don’t have any temperature control. That’s why dry vans are used for moving commodities that are not temperature-sensitive: textile and clothing items, electronics, plastic, and building products, etc.
- They have doors on the back, so they can only be loaded from the rear. Usually, a dry van trailer is 53 feet in length, but in some cases, it can be 48 feet.
- Commonly shipped commodities:
Packaging, paper, dry grade food, beverages, plastics, clothing, building products, lawn/garden goods, chemicals, ink/paint, batteries, seed, finished products.
Characteristics:
- Can only be loaded and unloaded from the rear with a forklift
- Dock required for loading and unloading
- The deck height of a van is standard dock height: 4 feet from the ground
- The maximum haul weight is 45,000 lbs, but dry van carriers prefer to stick around up to 43,000 lbs