Happy landings

For the past 20 years, Tuff Trailers has worked closely with electronics specialist, Razor International, to boost the value proposition of its product portfolio.

Matt Dengate of Tuff Trailers says the OEM at the time was trying to find the best electric landing leg system in the industry which had good service and backup support.

“We were really looking out for quality, and Razor came in on the topside there,” he says. “Working as an automated piece of equipment, these landing legs offer a new level of efficiency to trailer unhitching for operators who can unload the legs without even having to leave their vehicle if outside conditions aren’t ideal.

“If you’re a seasoned operator, and the weather is cold and miserable, the last thing you’d want to be doing is standing beside your trailer, unhitching your truck and having to wind down landing legs in the wet and mud.

“The great thing about the Razor landing legs is that you can press a button and they lower themselves down until they hit the ground, with different options for different unloading speeds. Additionally, the landing legs come with a radio controller interface, so operators can use a key panel in their truck cab to lower the legs down before they’re even ready to get out of the prime mover.”

The automation of the electric landing leg system, according to Razor, also presents safety benefits to operators, as the landing legs’ automated process of being lowered saves the driver physical strain and fatigue involved in manually winding them down in addition to the aforementioned inconvenience or discomfort. This element of safety also extends to the protruding loads of certain trailer payloads.

“Usually, conventional deck widening trailers would go to 3.5m, whereas we build up to 4.5m agricultural deck wideners,” Matt says. “So, that means the decks would be an additional half a metre per side.

“Razor systems don’t require a landing leg handle and are driven directly to the leg. The alternative would be to have a handle that is a metre longer than it needs to be on a fixed width trailer.

“If you have a Razor system, you just press a button and it goes down. So, there’s an advantage to the operator for safety by avoiding protruding loads.”

These benefits in safety and efficiency and have made the electric landing leg system a popular specification for many of Tuff Trailers’ customers, all of whom have been more than pleased with its performance according to Matt.

“The feedback on the Razor landing legs is great,” he says. “Razor has always been in the pursuit of delivering quality.”