LOUISVILLE, Kentucky—Wabash displayed a new package of tank trailer technologies during its Wabash Ignite conference with developing features that emphasize safety and connectivity.
The prototype trailer boasted technology features both familiar and new, including seal sensors, extensive camera coverage, automatic lighting, light-out detection, and more.
“I think what separates Wabash’s tank trailer offering is the safety side of the features,” Adam Quinn, director of specialty sales at Wabash, told FleetOwner. “Fleets have been asking for some of these offerings ... and looked at different solutions, but not all as one package. We’re bringing all of this visibility in one package and then adding to it that safety side.”
Here are a few of the in-development tanker’s promising features:
Manlid seal visibility
One of the trailer’s standout tools allows for digital verification that a manlid is sealed. The trailer's Sure-Seal Sensors could help minimize how often employees need to scale tank trailers physically.
“Historically, and even common practice today, is that you have to go up and physically connect the seal and the driver has to check it,” Quinn said. “It’s just not a safe process. ... All that is very manual today.”
Reducing how often drivers have to climb the tank could be a big safety gain. In addition, it provides carriers an additional layer of assurance that the manlid is sealed throughout the trailer’s route. Sure-Seal Sensors could provide notifications of seal opening, seal closing, and cargo tampering events.
“That technology that we’ve developed is, once the shipper from a safe vantage point attaches the seal, there’s visibility that it’s connected; there’s visibility that it’s connected in transit; there’s history on it,” Quinn explained.
This manlid seal visibility feature would communicate its status through an online platform.
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