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Transport equipment

DHL provides specific transport equipment for all your transport needs. Here you will find useful information on our transport equipment.

In Air Freight transports there are many different unit load devices in use besides the air express container. You can find more information about the unit load devices and their measures in the document below.

Container is a standardized cargo transport unit used e.g. in ocean and rail transports and multimodal transports. The most common container outdoor measurements (length x width x height) are
  • 20': 20x 8 x 8,6 feet
  • 40': 40 x 8 x 8,6 feet
More useful information on containers is to be found in the following files:
We transport your shipments with modern and functional equipment - Eurotrailer, Megatrailer or Jumbotrailer - in accordance with your transport needs. Part of our units are also equipped for transport by train (so-called huckepack trailers).

Our temperature-controlled equipment is ATP/FRC classified and thus suitable for all goods requiring controlled temperatures (-25º C - +25º C). Part of our thermo equipment are multi-temperature units allowing different temperatures in the front and in the rear of the trailers. Also available are double deck units, equipped with movable beams, which doubles the available loading space when transporting non-stackable pallets, for example. For details on equipment used in regular European road transports, please check link below. National regulations / weight limits need to be observed.

Shipments requiring special transport equipment need to be scheduled individually.
The maximum payloads for DHL equipment used in the European traffics can be found in the table below.

Note! The pay loads for 24 ton loads have been calculated for a truck and trailer with 5 axels.
COUNTRYEurotrlThermo
 tntn
Belgium24,523,5
Bosnia2420
Bulgaria2220
Spain24,523
The Netherlands24,523,5
Ireland24,521
Great Britain24,523
Italy24,523
Italy (huckepack)28 
Austria24,521
Greece24,520
Croatia2420
Latvia2422
Lithuania2422
Luxembourg24,523,5
Norway3023
Portugal24,523
Poland2423
France24,523
Romania2220
Sweden (trailer)3023
Sweden Road train 18 - 20 ldm33-3838
Germany24,523,5
Slovakia2423
Slovenia2421
Switzerland24,523
Switzerland (huckepack)27 
Denmark3023
Czech Republic2423
Turkey2120
Ukraine2120
Hungary2423
Belarus2120
Russia2120
Estonia2422