Strick Trailers, a manufacturer of aluminum sheet and post trailers, has announced that the company’s GardX rear impact guard has completed testing for the IIHS ToughGuard certification.
The ToughGuard certification evaluates the performance of rear underride guard designs on truck trailers. In the test, a midsize car traveling 35 MPH is crashed into the back of a parked semitrailer.
Each trailer is tested in three configurations:
- Full width: The car crashes into the center of the trailer’s rear.
- 50% overlap: Half of the car’s width overlaps the rear of the trailer.
- 30% overlap: Thirty percent of the car’s width overlaps the rear of the trailer.
Rear impact guards that prevent underride in all three tests qualify for the IIHS ToughGuard award. Strick plans to roll out its new GardX rear impact guard for long van trailers beginning with model year 2020. Additionally, a pup trailer (28-ft. and shorter) design will be introduced early in 2019, the company said.