What is difference between tautliner and curtainsider?

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Hi Everyone

Just trying to find definition of difference between between tautliner and curtainsider trailers ?
Anyone for help?
Thanks

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Tautliner is a brand name of Boalloy curtainsiders :slight_smile:

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Tautliner was a Boalloy trade name for a curtainsider,so in essence the same thing.

Oops, snap! :smiley:

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msp:
Hi Everyone

Just trying to find definition of difference between between tautliner and curtainsider trailers ?
Anyone for help?
Thanks

Also forget to add the Euroliner trailer… I guess just another brand name for curtainsider trailer as well?

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Do a search, this was done forensically & anally not long ago.

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msp:
Also forget to add the Euroliner trailer… I guess just another brand name for curtainsider trailer as well?

Curtainsider with sliding roof.

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in my opinion, nothing. others may disagree :wink: :laughing: :laughing:

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Curtainsider/Tautliner = same
Euro liner looks the same but its got boards & posts all along it & probably has a sliding roof, it’s a modern version of the old Tilt Trailers.

Not sure if you can completely strip a modern Euroliner like you could an old fashioned tilt ? (They were ■■■■■■■ in the rain & wind)

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Am I the only one surprised that the OP has yet to be castigated for “not being a real driver” who should not have had to ask the question? :wink:

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FACT: A Curtainsider is the description used when it is flapping in the breeze, its a Tautliner only when the driver has bothered to tighten it properly :laughing:

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FACT: A tilt is a type of trailer that makes a 20 stone hairy Trucker cry like a baby when he gets to the loading point, only to see a over head crane :frowning:

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They wanted to call it the Bentliner after its inventor

He also invented the ERF LV cab which was Broadly speaking a Jennings cab.

Where I come from Bowyers made sausages, however in Cheshire they built trailers :stuck_out_tongue:

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A Tilt is a covered section, originally on a rowed barge, a Scallop. The tilt became known as a a cargo cover on ships, horse drawn carts and eventually trailers.

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Don`t forget the hideous Don Bur abortions.
Give me 5 minutes in a room with the guy who designed that trailer :smiling_imp:

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I thought that when Boalloys launched the Tuatliner, they wanted to distinquish it from a stantard curtainsider of the time, due to the fact that the curtain had load restaint capabilty due to the straps being formed into the curtain material and the ability to tension the curtain, effectively in 4 directions. At the time a standard curtainsider had no tension in the curtain at all, and was simply weather proofing.

Offcaorse I could be totaly wrong, and no doubt someone will let me know :unamused: , at length :wink:

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3 letters?

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the maoster:
3 letters?

Lol ! Only just got that joke (5 days later !) must be the Alzheimer’s !!!

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martinviking:

the maoster:
3 letters?

Lol ! Only just got that joke (5 days later !) must be the Alzheimer’s !!!

:smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: . Sometimes my mind works in obscure ways!