Reefer Monitoring Service Also Now Available
St. Louis, MO—Sept. 29, 2009—XTRA Lease, a leading provider of over-the-road trailer equipment rental and leasing in North America, announced today that it is now offering solar-sustained trailer tracking service on reefers and flatbeds.
Reefer and flatbed tracking is available to XTRA Lease customers as part of a trailer lease package. XTRA Lease introduced a new solar-sustained tracking system on dry vans in 2007. The system includes a web-based interface that enables customers to immediately hone in on trailer dormancy and utilization, providing greater fleet efficiency.
For the first time, fleet managers can benefit from the dual power feature on reefer and flatbed tracking. Just like the dry van product, reefer tracking combines solar power with 7-way plug charging to increase battery life. Because of the reefer engine’s position on the trailer front, the XTRA Lease tracking solution positions the solar power unit on the top edge of the trailer roof. For flatbeds, the company will install units on the main frame.
XTRA Lease also announced it is offering a one-way reefer monitoring service, which enables customers to receive vital information about the reefer unit’s operating status. From their desktop, customers can check a reefer’s current temperature and set-point, and see if there are any cautionary and critical alarms. The reefer unit’s processor generates these alarms, which serve as a remote indicator that “something is wrong” and may cause the reefer unit to stop working.
In addition, customers can receive e-mail alerts when temperatures fall outside of pre-determined ranges or when the unit generates an alarm.
One-way monitoring enables customers to receive the following operating information about the reefer unit:
“Our trailer tracking system has provided dry van fleets much greater visibility of their rental and leased trailers,” said Bill Franz, CEO and President of XTRA Lease. “We’re proud to extend this performance and utilization tool to our refrigerated and flatbed trailer fleets, and to give managers of this equipment the same power to use trailer tracking at a new level. Our reefer and flatbed tracking product will deliver more advantages in the way fleets achieve greater efficiencies through trailer tracking.”
Based in St. Louis and owned by Berkshire Hathaway, XTRA Lease is a leading provider of over-the-road trailers for rent or lease in the U.S. and Canada. With more than 75 North American locations, the company offers a fleet of nearly 100,000 trailers, including dry vans, flatbeds, reefers, storage trailers and specialty equipment.
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With 76 locations across North America and a fleet of nearly 100,000 trailers, XTRA Lease is sure to have the equipment you need, when you need it, where you need it!