Flexliner

 Flexliner

The “European” Flexliner design that Langendorf has built for their customers has three standard dimensions for pallets and containers (Euro pallets, Industrial pallets and roll containers) in most parts of Europe.

Below are a few more arguments for the use of the Flexliner: 

Economic advantages

 Ø      Two Langendorf-Flexliners replace three standard vehicles (based on European design)

Ø      Wage and operating costs reduced by approx. 30%

Ø      Short loading / unloading time due to easy handling 

Ø      Low maintenance and repair costs by using high quality components

Ø      Better usage of the vehicles due to two loading decks to be used independently from each other, which makes it possible to transport different kinds of goods at once  Technical advantages 

Ø      Double Deck load with loading heights of 1,830 mm on both decks

Ø      55 Europallets, 87 Roll containers or 39 industrial pallets, volume approx. 110 m³ (European design)

Ø      Approximately  60 % more capacity as compared with standard vehicles with space for 34 Europallets (European design) 

Ø      Payload 25.000/28.000 kg with a perm. total train weight of 40,000/44,000 kg (European design)

Ø      Technical payload of the upper deck 20,000 kg by regular load distribution

Ø      High flexibility by own tail lift with up to 3,000 kg capacity

Ø      Smooth design and the closed sides offer a very good protection of the load

Ø      High driving safety and simple handling by a complete equipment in highest technical level (e.g. Wabco Roll Stability Support)

Wide range of use:

Ø      LCL freight on pallets

Ø      Roll Containers

Ø      Safe transport of fragile goods with reduced packing

Ø      Textiles on hangers, etc.  

Case Study:  A customer recently gave us an overview of his Flexliner use of the last two years and we compared it to a standard EU semitrailer:  

Age of Flexliner: 2 years Km: approx. 500,000 km (approx. 312,500 miles) Shuttle service, distance between the stocks: 500 km (approx. 312 miles)  

Flexliner Loaded with 87 roll containers (815 x 720 mm) each transport Kilometer reading after 2 years: 500.000 km total / 500 km per transport = 1.000 Transports 1000 transports x 87 containers = 87.000 containers total  

Capacity of standard EU semi-trailer = 54 roll containers  87000 roll containers (Flexliner) / 54 roll containers (EU semi-trailer) = 1.611 Transports  

è    1 Flexliner saved 611 transports in two years