Technical Articles
Why do billion-rand racing programmes enclose their radiators while transport refrigeration installers insist condensers need “open air”? We calculated what the industry won’t: capture efficiency, pressure differentials, and recirculation losses. The results explain why your TRU underperforms — and what physics demands instead.
Technical Articles
A mini truck loses R10,000 annually to aerodynamic drag. A 16-ton rigid loses R35,000. An interlink loses R70,000. Same physics, same fixable problem zones, different zeros on the savings. This comprehensive guide breaks down the seven drag zones costing your fleet money, quantifies the annual waste, and shows bodybuilders how to turn aerodynamic improvements into a competitive advantage.
Courier Service
You book an “insured courier” for your frozen goods. Three days later, it arrives thawed. You file a claim—and discover your product was explicitly excluded from coverage. Cold chain liability is complicated. Multiple carriers, multiple terms, multiple gaps. Here’s what you need to know before you ship.
Best Practices
When your frozen goods travel between Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban, they move through a chain of handlers, forklifts, and vehicles before reaching their destination. How you palletize determines whether your products arrive intact—and whether you’re covered if something goes wrong.
Technical Articles
Your warehouse staff call it “playing Tetris.” So do we. But in 2002, MIT proved Tetris is NP-hard – no computer can guarantee the optimal solution. Palletising is worse: 3D instead of 2D, mixed box sizes, weight limits, crush resistance, and the physics of surviving 1,200km on the N1. This article breaks down why a 30-box pallet has 10⁵⁵ possible configurations, why standard South African stock boxes don’t tile perfectly on Euro pallets, and why telling us what you’re sending before it arrives saves both of us money.
Best Practices
Every refrigerated vehicle build involves seven interconnected cost levers: insulation, TRU sizing, compressor type, condenser design, defrost systems, compressor lifecycle, and evaporator sizing. Get them wrong, and each bad decision cascades into the next—poor insulation forces larger TRUs, which run longer, which kill compressors faster. We break down how a “budget” build at R90,000 upfront becomes R947,500 over 10 years, while an engineered build at R170,000 costs just R575,000. That R80,000 you “saved”? It costs you R4.66 for every rand.
Technical Articles
EPS vs PUR vs PIR: Complete insulation materials comparison for frozen food transport. The R22,000 you “save” costs R250,000 over vehicle lifetime. Engineering truth.
Best Practices
Specialized logistics provider focusing exclusively on last-mile delivery of frozen products, maintaining strict temperature control from pickup through final handoff. Unlike general couriers adding refrigerated capacity, frozen food couriers design…
Best Practices
Ice pack frozen delivery makes 3× more profit per delivery than professional refrigeration—but collapses in 3 years. Here’s why margins don’t matter.
Technical Articles
Your “smart fleet” is just a thermometer with WiFi. Real intelligence requires physics-based predictive analytics, not reactive alarms. R60k/year wasted.