Showing posts with label Peterbilt 388. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peterbilt 388. Show all posts

More road visibility for today's Carhauler

The Peterbilt 388 cab gives todays carhauler more visibility on the road

Peterbilt truckMore visibility for the carhauler: The Peterbilt 388 sloped hoodOne huge advantage to the Peterbilt 388 is its sloping hood. As simple as this may seem the hood gives the Peterbilt driver more vision. On todays crowded roadways, huge tractor trailers or car haulers can not afford to lose even the slightest awareness of what is in front of them. Even a few inches on the sloped hood can make the difference in keeping truckers and carhaulers out of harms way.
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2004 Cottrell C-7512 Carhauler with Peterbilt 379
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Color: Black
265 70R 19.5 Tires
1/4" Chains & Clusters
Quick Release Ratchets
Work Lights
Aluminum WHeels
Sliding King Pin

The Cottrell C-7512 Carhauler model has been the most efficient and effective quick load trailer on the market for nearly a decade. This 7 car hauler has the capability of being flexible when loading while retaining a quick load and unload time. The Cottrell 7512 carhauler has been well accepted among drivers due to its efficiency in operation. With one split sliding top deck and a rear hinged position, this carhauler can accommodate most seven car loads. All Cottrell headramps are compatible.

-description adapted from Cottrell Website

The other side of Mexican Trucking...?

Fleet Owner Magazine
July 2011

Mexican trucks: Consider the positives

Jul 12, 2011 12:27 PM, By David Cullen, executive editor
Mexican trucking

credit: Felipe Garcia

While trucking lobbies opposed to the new U.S.-Mexico cross-border truck pilot program, have been more than vocal—even to the point of one having filed a federal suit against the bilateral agreement—there’s at least one expert on this segment of international trade who sees the deal struck by Mexico President Felipe Calderón and President Barack Obama in a clearly positive light.

For starters, Troy Ryley, managing director of Transplace Mexico, told FleetOwner that once Mexican carriers are enrolled in the pilot program, Texas “could become a center for distribution as Mexican trucks won’t be going far north unless they have backhauls secured, which will be difficult as Mexican carriers will not be allowed to carry U.S. domestic freight.” In addition, he said the presence of new terminal operations set up by Mexican carriers on the U.S. side of the border could help relieve some of the [freight] capacity issues in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Tucson and Albuquerque.”

Ryley pointed out that Transplace’s market expertise in this arena rests on it being a leading non-asset based third-party logistics (3PL) services provider and a “Top 10 freight capacity broker” in the U.S. with deep experience aiding customers shipping to Mexico and beyond.

Speaking to the very guts of the agreement in terms of free-trade fairness, Ryley remarked that “Keeping Mexican carriers out would be like the U.S. keeping out all the international airlines” that have landing rights here. “Every country in the world flies in here, but somehow we cannot put Mexican trucks on our roads?

“The reality is,” he continued, [that Mexican carriers] buy from the same trucking suppliers [as U.S. fleets] and many of the trucks run here today were built in Mexico. The capabilities are there [in Mexico] and that includes driving trucks.”

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