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Rionoir

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  1. I think some people are confusing this with a typical dry van trailer. These containers are separate from the chassis (wheels and frame), and are removed from the wheels to put onto boats to send overseas or onto railcars.

    I still have to see the first that has been secured on the trailer.

    There is no way to tell from a distance if one of these is secured to the chassis. They have locking mechanisms in all four corners - the two in the back corners lock from underneath, and the two in the front are horizontal pins that go into the container. These need to be inspected up close, as you've got to look in a small hole to see if the mechanism is locked properly or not. We put zip ties on the locking mechanisms to make sure they don't unlock, but obviously that probably has never happened in Thailand.

    As I said, I personally keep a good distance from these trucks even in the US where we are regulated up the behind... I would never be within a mile of one of these in Thailand.

    BTW a good way to tell an intermodal container like this from a regular dry van (which could never separate from the chassis like this) is that the intermodal containers are wavy on the sides, making them more sturdy (since they need to support the weight from being stacked on the ships). You can't really see it on the picture from that angle, but if you look up "intermodal container" on google you'll see it.

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  2. I drive these containers in the US - not hard to flip them off the chassis if you don't lock it down. They are basically just sitting on top of the chassis, only touching in the four corners. They fall off and kill people occasionally in the US too. I recommend steering clear of these types of trucks altogether... there's plenty of careless drivers in any country.

    We've got tons of imported drivers in the US now too, and they have imported some slack safety standards for themselves to say the least...

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