At the recently held Truck World 2024 show in Toronto, Service Truck Magazine saw a monster of a cool tool—the Yeti snow and ice removal system for box trailers from Rainville Industries, headquartered in Sain-Jean-sur-Richelieu, in Quebec, Canada.
Granted, we were indoors, and there were flakes of snow being blown around by a cold Canadian wind, so we only had video evidence to see how powerful the Yeti snow and ice removal system is.
Why do you care? If you run trucks from areas where it snows, then you are all too aware of snow and ice sheets sliding off trucks into your vehicles or the public’s vehicles.
While your truck fleet may be better equipped to handle such ice and snow falling onto your cab, automobiles are not, and besides the bad press it would generate, we know you don’t want to be responsible for hurting or killing anyone.
As a good corporate citizen, you are responsible for the safety of other drivers. Provinces and states have strict snow removal regulations to reduce such accidents. Failure to comply can be deadly, and even if nothing untoward occurs, you and your company can be fined.
So how do you be a good corporate citizen? Do you send a driver or other workers up onto a trailer to shovel and scrape off snow and ice? That’s dangerous even without windy conditions. Why put a worker’s life at risk when all you have to do is press a button?
And, said Rainville Industries president Ghislain Sabourin, “The Yeti snow and ice removal system does a better job than any manual system.”
Sabourin noted that it can take two workers approximately 30 minutes to shovel the snow off the top of a trailer. But, he added, with the Yeti system, after the trailer is moved into place, it moves across the top of the trailer, removing the ice and snow and doing the job with just one person (pressing the “on” button) in under two minutes.
Labor costs, time saved, a cleaner truck, and being a better corporate citizen.
Company information can be found at www.goyeti.ca.