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Specialized Equipment Types and Liquid Volume Measurement

We’ve expanded Shipwell's equipment and measurement capabilities to better support specialized transportation needs, particularly for asphalt, fuel, and liquid product shipments.

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Written by Shipwell TMS Support
Updated over a week ago

What's New

Specialized Equipment Types for Asphalt and Fuel Transportation

Shipwell now supports 10 new specialized equipment types designed for asphalt, fuel, and liquid product transportation. These equipment types are globally available to all Shipwell customers and fully integrated across the platform, including order creation, shipment management, dock scheduling, reporting, analytics, and API endpoints.

New Equipment Types Available:

Tanker Equipment:

  • Sealed Tanker - For sealed liquid transport requiring containment integrity

  • Multi Compartment Tanker - For hauling multiple product types or grades simultaneously

  • A Trains - Articulated tanker configurations for increased capacity

Specialized Tank Equipment:

  • Body Tanks - Standard body-mounted tank configurations

  • Super Body Tanks - Large-capacity body tank systems

General Equipment:

  • Semi - Standard semi-trailer configurations for liquid products

Asphalt-Specific Equipment:

  • Asphalt - Specialized equipment for hot asphalt transportation

  • Hot Trailers - Temperature-controlled trailers for maintaining product heat

  • Emulsion - Equipment configured for asphalt emulsion products

Safety-Classified Equipment:

  • Blue Dot - Equipment meeting blue dot hazmat specifications

  • Green Dot - Equipment meeting green dot hazmat specifications


Where You'll Use These Equipment Types

These new equipment types are available throughout the Shipwell platform:

Order and Shipment Creation

Dock Scheduling

Reporting and Analytics

API Integration


Liquid Volume Measurement Support

Shipwell now supports liquid volume measurement units as selectable options for packaging types and piece types when creating shipments. These units are already available in the Product Book and Order Creation.

New Volume Measurement Units on Shipments:

  • Volume (GAL) - US gallons for liquid volume measurement

  • Volume (L) - Liters for metric liquid volume measurement

  • Barrel - Standard petroleum barrel measurement (42 US gallons)

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