The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recommends that owners of transport refrigeration units (TRUs or reefer units) and TRU generator sets should have already began their planning strategies and ...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a public hearing recently and approved amendments to the Transport Refrigeration Unit (TRU) regulation. These amendments are designed to provide ...

If you run refrigerated freight, you already know reefer maintenance isn’t optional—it’s mission-critical. But there’s one number that quietly determines the health, resale value, and future liability ...

California’s Air Resources Board has amended the Transportation Refrigeration Unit Regulation for carriers that acted in advance of the deadline for compliance. The reefer rule mandates upgrades or ...

For owner-operators like the Ibarras, though, getting information about the program has been difficult. Emissions retrofits or truck replacements are expensive, and the regs themselves – pertaining in ...

Xtra Lease, a provider of over-the-road trailer equipment rental and leasing in North America, announced that it now is offering solar-sustained trailer-tracking service on reefers and flatbeds as ...

What do bananas from South America, fish from Novia Scotia, cantaloupes from Costa Rica, and the Pfizer vaccine have in common? They reached their customers via a refrigerated truck of some type ...

This story appears in the May/June 2009 issue of Equipment & Maintenance Update, a supplement to the May 18 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Truckers who pull ...