Phillips offers expanded nosebox for trailer electronics

Phillips Industries' i-BOX

The Trucker News Services

4/1/2008

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Phillips Industries has introduced the i-BOX, presented at the Mid-America Trucking Show as a larger, more efficient nosebox to handle the expanding electronic requirements of today’s trailers.

The i-BOX, short for “Information Box,” was developed by Phillips Industries at the request of a major U.S. trucking fleet, according to the company. The fleet found that that they needed more room for additional wiring required by added trailer electronics such as trailer tracking and weigh systems that were not part of trailers 10 years ago. Phillips took this idea and designed a nosebox with a third more working room inside the box that alleviates wire pinching and pull-out which has become a problem in standard noseboxes.

While Phillips was expanding the size of the nosebox, they took the opportunity to make other time-saving and money-saving improvements such as:

• A hinged lid that houses a weather-proof gasket which protects the interior against corrosion and extreme weather

• Circuit breakers housed in the i-BOX which can be changed in a matter of seconds; and

• Including Phillips 7-way QCS 2 Quick Connect Socket, allowing for easy replacement when required. 

The i-BOX can also house Phillips’ PERMALOGIC trailer dome lamp controller and it has room for flash memory to store important trailer schematics, bills of material, maintenance and other important documents. 

Phillips Industries supplies advanced electrical and air brake interface equipment for the commercial vehicle industry.