For the first time ever, a North American company is not at the top of the North American Trailer and Truck builder report.

Source.

Not for the first time, many North American company’s sales are stagnant or have gone down slightly while overall trailer sales have gone up.

The margins on container chassis have been driven down to the point some companies have exited the container chassis business altogether.

What is going to happen as dry freight van margins continue to go down? Are companies that have been building trailers for generations just going to disappear?

Some will disappear. Some will disappear when the current hot economy cools just a little and thin margins aren’t covered by a larger volume.

Smart companies will slide sideways into a next generation trailer.

A trailer that is patent protected worldwide. A trailer that is so far ahead of everyone else that no one is even starting to work on what they are already building and selling. A trailer that can revolutionize freight. A trailer that can save an end user like Wal-Mart billions a year. A trailer that meshes perfectly with the autonomous truck.

A trailer like QuickLoadz.

We can’t build them fast enough.

We could use a partner who is looking to the future. You can always use a head start on the next generation. Let’s talk.

Like the PC new hardware is valuable, like the PC controlling the software that runs on unique new hardware is even more valuable.

QuickLoadz is two pieces that make up what will be the logistics platform for the future.

First, it is the only real new hardware that changes freight and logistics in decades. Self driving trucks might be inevitable, but the truck doesn’t carry the merchandise, the trailer does. What is 100 times better than the self driving truck? A trailer that can pick up and deliver loads by itself. QuickLoadz is the patent protected smart trailer that is light years ahead of what anyone else is doing.

With QuickLoadz, you have a trailer that can pick up and deliver 60,000 lb. loads of merchandise in three minutes.

Unique patented hardware that is already delivering containers all over the world.

Second is the software that runs on that hardware. QuickLoadz carries around a Wi-Fi network and computer to allow the driver to see what is behind them on their smartphone, and allows the driver to control the QuickLoadz trailer.

But why not add to the software, so you can:

1. Track the container as it goes down the road?
2. Put the video on a loop in case there is an accident?
3. Take a picture of the container when it is delivered?
4. Check trailer tire pressure?
5. Check the trailer brakes?
6. Tell not just the driver, but a maintenance supervisor 2,000 miles away if there is something going wrong?
7. Weigh the container, so it can tell the customer exactly what weight was picked up? Grain, corn, scrap tires?
8. If your QuickLoadz logistics software knows where you dropped the container, it knows where to tell a different driver to pick it up.

People always ask us, “how can you load two 20′ containers on one 40′ trailer?” We’ve always had to tell them that you load the first container using the QuickLoadz chain drive, but load the second one manually with a winch and straps. It’s an answer we’ve always been unhappy to give. As our customers and readers know, we hate winches and straps. They’re slow, unsafe, and inefficient.

Now we have a solution we’re proud to offer.

 

 

1. The first container is loaded.
2. Both containers are connected to each other.
3. Both containers are loaded together.
4. The Dual QuickLock Clamps are screwed into the bed.
5. The bed is lowered, and the driver rides off into the sunset.

 

First, you load one 20′ container just as you normally would—from the comfort of the truck cabin, with your smartphone, using the QuickLoadz Chain Drive. After it’s loaded, you drive over to your second container, and unload the first container in front of it. They attach to each other with two connectors that screw into the corner castings. Now that they’re connected, you can load both at once as if they’re one 40′ container, still with the fast and easy to use QuickLoadz system.

QuickLoadz already has DOT-approved instant locking pins in all four corners of the trailer. But when you have two 20′ containers loaded instead of one 40′ container, there are four container corners in the middle of the trailer that aren’t secured. The Dual 20′ Container Locking Pins come with two sets of two pins that slide into these middle corners and screw into place, so that all four corners on both containers are secured to the bed.

For $700, the Dual 20′ Container Locking Pins comes with two container connectors to clip two containers together, two Dual QuickLock Clamps to lock the containers to the bed, with mounting points added to the trailer on both sides to accommodate two containers. It is available on every 40′ trailer. Moving two loaded 20′ containers just got a lot easier.

See it in action:

Move two empty 20′ containers with the 20k Super Short 40:
https://www.quickloadz.com/product/20k-super-short-40/

Move two fully loaded 20′ containers with the 60k Super High 40:
https://www.quickloadz.com/product/60k-super-high-40/

This is the busy time. I know, I move containers too.

Save time.

Think as you work the long hours this summer, all the time you could save with a QuickLoadz:

1. Never have to drag out chains.
2. Never have to throw straps.
3. Never have to block up a container.
4. Load or unload without getting out of the truck in just two minutes.
5. Push button control from your smart phone.
6. Push button locking and unlocking from your smart phone.
7. Wi-Fi rearview camera.

I bet it would be a lot easier to keep a driver that doesn’t have to do all of that.

See the difference:

No smashed fingers.
No being covered in oil and dirt from chains and straps.
No chiseling mud out of corner castings.
No throwing straps over a container.
No summer heat.
No winter cold.
No sliding around on a slippery deck.
No squatting next to a winch cable and chain under tension.
No customers complaining about damaged driveways.

QuickLoadz makes all these things go away.

“I don’t care, I just hire the driver.” Okay, then…

No trying to convince a driver to stay in the summer.
No trying to convince a driver to stay in the winter.
No Workman Comps claims from a driver slipping on the deck.
No Workman Comps claims from a driver’s hands.
No injured driver from a cable snapping.
No injured driver from a chain breaking.
No worrying if the driver strapped down the container.
No customers complaining about damaged driveways.

Instead of buying a trailer designed to tow cars and forcing it to move containers, buy the trailer that is designed to move containers and will tow cars, unload itself, and in the truck version, give you a free dump truck.

It will save you money in time, injuries, and maintenance.

See how the 40k Super Bed works in snow in just one minute.

A clever Canadian customer came up with a use for the QuickLoadz Dual Chain Drive that we use all the time now.

After seeing a QuickLoadz, Bill said:

The answer is, “We didn’t think of it.”

Unloading pallets off of the flatbed is a problem for us too. Every week, the plant generates pallets and pallets of compressed cardboard and other recyclables that we put on a 26k Super 40 trailer and haul to the recycling plant. Every week we wait around for a forklift. Now, we can just drop the entire load in two minutes and the forklift driver can pick them up and move them when convenient.

Can’t do that with a winch. Just one more advantage QuickLoadz offers. Like you needed another reason to buy a QuickLoadz.

QuickLoadz is designed to be the fastest, safest, easiest, and cheapest way to move loaded sea shipping containers. But it does much more.

Have 15 seconds to see how it works?

A new trailer that works exactly the same as the old trailer isn’t an improvement.

One of our large clients had an average CDL driver turnover of five months. In some locations, it was as low as one week. They had new equipment, but it was the same as the old equipment, just shinier. The driver was still getting in and out of the truck eight times using chains, winches, and straps in the cold and in the heat, sliding around on the deck. Nothing was different. The job wasn’t any faster, easier, or safer.

After a year of talking about it they finally bought a QuickLoadz. That driver stayed, and has stayed for the last two years. Zero injuries. Production doubled.

They have bought more QuickLoadz.

 

The 26k Super 40 with Dual 20′ Container Locking Pins

Every driver who runs a QuickLoadz is still there.

The turnover for QuickLoadz drivers is zero. What is that worth?

You have to buy a trailer anyway. Why not buy a trailer that keeps the drivers safe and happy? Why not buy a trailer that adds the ability to move loaded containers?

How can QuickLoadz change freight and logistics?

Want to see which model is right for you?
www.quickloadz.com/help-me-choose/

April 27th: Flatbed transporter Falcon Transport closes doors with 500 drivers suddenly out of work. [1]

May 4th: Flatbed transporter Williams Truck shuts its doors. [2]

And those are just the big ones that get articles written about them.

Why would you buy a standard flatbed? The market is crowded and the margins are thin.

It’s time to get flexible in what you can do and add capability no one else has.

With one QuickLoadz, you get three trailers of capability:

A tow trailer for equipment and vehicles.
Better than a regular tow trailer: you have a built-in rear view camera you can see on your smart phone when backing up and a smart phone remote control. Sit in the car and steer while pulling it up on the trailer. No tow truck or trailer manufacturer anywhere has ever offered something this convenient or safe.

A flatbed trailer which can tilt.
And with an optional push bar, it can unload itself of pallets and skids. Unload at a construction site without a forklift.

An automatic container mover. QuickLoadz is designed around moving containers easily. QuickLoadz works with any standard ISO shipping container with no modifications required. It is the simplest, lightest, fastest system ever devised to move sea shipping containers. The system is so automated, the driver literally does not have to leave their seat in the cab of the truck. With QuickLoadz, you would be the only company that can move loaded containers. A service that can charge a premium.

 

Check out the most versatile 40′ QuickLoadz in the lineup, the 40k Super Short 40: https://www.quickloadz.com/product/40k-super-short-40/

Walmart already understands one of the ways QuickLoadz will change the world of freight and logistics.

Containers can be used as cheap, flexible warehouses.

Walmart understands math. Walmart understands that store space is $130/sq.ft. and a container is $3/sq.ft. Which is why when you drive by any Walmart, you will see a dozen sea shipping containers being used as storage. When a truck arrives at a Walmart store, it waits an average of 20 minutes for a loading dock to become available. The truck and driver then wait another three hours for unloading. The merchandise doesn’t stay in the store; they don’t have room for it. It leaves the $130/sq.ft. store space and goes into the $3/sq.ft. container space. Getting handled and possibly damaged again.

During holiday seasons, Walmart gets more sea shipping containers, because they need more warehouse space. Incredibly cheap, dynamic warehouse space.

If Walmart moved to QuickLoadz, they could drop off entire loads of merchandise in three minutes instead of three hours. The merchandise would only be handled once instead of multiple times. Expensive loading docks would not be tied up, or far fewer would be needed.

With QuickLoadz, nothing has to change about how Walmart does things now. QuickLoadz works with all existing freight systems. If it is a partial load, or for some other reason the container needs to be partially emptied at a store, then simply back up the QuickLoadz to the loading dock. QuickLoadz works with loading docks. If a full load, simply drop the container and go.

This is the heart of the change QuickLoadz can make all over the industry.

Large retailers to small mom-and-pop shops that have seasonal warehouse needs can add containers as needed, then load finished product into containers and take it straight to a rail or sea port.

Intermodal for everyone. The most efficient distribution system ever devised can now be used by everyone.

The question is, “How do I capitalize on this; am I too late?”

The North American Freight and Logistics market was around $1,684,000,000,000 in 2017. Without freight and logistics, there is no economy. This $1.684 trillion dollar market is in rapid change.

New logistics companies like Uber Freight and Convoy are rapidly automating the connections between shippers and trucking companies. This software change is already well underway and a crowded space. Lots of competition.

Companies like Embark, Volvo, and Tesla are building autonomous trucks with new entries every month. Lots of competition.

Software doesn’t move boxes.

Neither do trucks. It is the trailer that moves the boxes.

There is one company in the world that is, right now, selling a trailer that can move loaded sea shipping containers all by itself in three minutes. It is fully freight compatible, fast, light, safe, cheap, and opens up enormous new markets.

No competition.

QuickLoadz trailers are so heavily automated, they can be made to run remotely.

QuickLoadz trailers carry around a Wi-Fi network and a computer. QuickLoadz trailers are all ready to be the next cloud based logistics system.

QuickLoadz trailers are the last piece of the puzzle to change freight and logistics.