Restrain Yourself

As part of Freighter’s growing range of Load Restraint solutions, the company has unveiled a new Load Hold Curtain at this year’s inaugural Melbourne Truck Show. Designed to provide legal load restraint for a wide range of cargoes, the Freighter Load Hold Curtain is aimed to fulfill a demand for a gateless road restraint option for T-Liner trailers.

The Freighter EziLiner Draws Customer OneLiners

Some improvements in the Eziliner trailer curtain concept were on show at the Melbourne Truck Show. The system usesa single high tensile cable to tension the curtains, using mecahnical hooks to draw down the cable and secure the curtains.

In the past the mechanical hook system used a single motion but now the redesigned hook shape takes hold of the cable in two steps allowing the driver to stop the connection halfway through the process and check all of the hooks are attaching to the curtain.

Freighter “Strapper” Trailer – Where It All Began

Sitting atop a display trailer at the recent Melbourne Truck Show was the Freighter Strapper trailer, a single axle flat top from 1951 and restored to its original glory by its original manufacturer to demonstrate how far the industry has come in the last fifty years.

The brand advertising emphasises it: “Freighter – Behind trucking Since 1946” and making its return to public display for the first time in a long time,