Dwarf throwing and sexual harassment hardly exude a sense of decorum.

Its not practicle to have that kind of complex design on a curtain sided trailor for a few reasons, firstly the cost would be astronomical which i doubt would make it viable, secondly curtain sided trailors get tears in them quite often so they have to be patched up with blank pieces of tarpaulin, that means bits of players or logos will start to go missing where the blank repair patches have gone.

You then have thieves that target curtain sided trailors on a regular basis, they slash them open to get at the goods inside, the huge rips can be repaired but with artwork like the new RFL design you would have to write the curtain off and order a new one.

Compare that to the cost of just a transfer to go on the side and back of a refrigerated boxed trailor, thats why i guess they are going onto the Stobart fridges.

Stobarts main work will be with curtain sided trailors as thats where the bread and butter work is in general haulage, you won't get the same kind of exposure with the fridge trailors as like i said previously the majority will run in the evenings and early hours of the morning delivering fresh produce.

So all hard sided trailers are fridges?

Sure i've seen plenty that are not.

Boxed sided trailors are not practical for general haulage of which thats Stobarts main business, they can only be loaded from a loading bay or from the floor by a fork truck then the driver has to pump truck all the pallets down the trailor which takes time. Curtain sided trailors are a doddle, just pull back the curtains and you can be loaded or unloaded in no time.

Boxed trailors just aint practical other than in fridge work or specialised work like transporting F1 and rally teams etc, you see a few rented ones but companies will only take those when they are really desperate and have a shortage of trailors.

Supermarket companies have a few but other than that general haulage companies stay away from them as they arn't very practical.

Depends on who they deliver too though, if you're delivering to yards then curtain siders are great but a lot of distribution centres have rear loading docks and curtain siders are pointless for that.

Their is no difference between a curtain sider and a boxed trailor being on a loading bay at a distribution centre, they get tipped in the same way, the material the walls are made of have no relevance to the point you made. Curtain siders do have back doors you know that open the same as a boxed trailor

Companies like Royal Mail use boxed trailors because obviously mail needs to be kept dry, boxed trailors are generally specialised trailors for specialised work.

Remember were talking Stobart here, Stobart is mainly general haulage, they are geared up for that work which is why their general haulage fleet run mainly with curtain sided trailors. They have specialised sides of the business like biomass and fridges etc.