Cork, Ireland-based Tarrant International, specializing in temperature-controlled logistics, is using a locking device from TrailerLock, which the load securement company says is a simple yet effective means of securing its trailers.
The steel device, called a FridgeLock, fits most types of surface-mounted door hardware, TrailerLock claimed. A barrel lock, protected by a coated steel cap, requires only a half turn to open the two sections of the device, which is then clamped over each of the vertical door rods.
When firmly in place, the doors cannot be opened, TrailerLock says, and the steel structure protects against the use of bolt-croppers or crowbars, which can easily cut or pry open a conventional padlock.
To open the doors, the driver removes the protective screw cap, engages the barrel key and slides the two halves of the FridgeLock apart.
“Quick, strong and uncomplicated,” said Fergal Tarrant, director at Tarrant International. “We also use other locks but this one does the job.”
