WABCO TailGUARD™ – The new blind spot detection solution for your trailer
TOWARD ZERO ACCIDENTS
Statistics indicate that up to 35% of incidents involving trailer damage and up to 40% of fatal accidents* happen while reversing. WABCO TailGUARDTM helps bring your working
environment toward Zero Accidents: it detects small, large, static and moving objects in the blind spot behind the trailer, and automatically stops the trailer at a safe distance.
4 RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATIONS FOR DIFFERENT LOGISTICS ENVIRONMENTS
The following table allows you to select the most appropriate configuration for your trailers, taking into account:
Complexity of your logistics environment
Experience of your drivers
Industry regulations or safety requirements that you wish to comply with
Typical logistic
environment
TailGUARDlight™
TailGUARD™
TailGUARDRoof™
TailGUARDMAX™
Typical logistic environment
Large loading bays with identical layout or flat walls and no object or persons behind the trailer
Multiple and unknownloading bays with flat walls, different layouts and large objects, pallets, cars, metal and wood traffic poles
Height-limited locations:warehouses, docking gates, tree branches and roof constructions
Locations with small and / or moving objects: supermarkets, forklift loading,road signs,retail shops, villages, city distributionCompliant to ISO 12155 DIN 75031
Number of sensors (.) represents sensors
Blind spot coverage area (view from top of trailer)
Blind spot coverage area (view from side of trailer)
Trailer Remote Control Display
Sensitivity
Objects between the two sensors are not detected.Only objects standing directly behind the left and right sensors are detected.
Large moving objects are detected and displayed independently on Trailer Remote Control
Objects at ground and roof level are detected and displayed independently on the Trailer Remote Control
Small moving objects are detected and displayed independently on the Trailer Remote Control
The former WABCO Ramp Approach system is replaced by TailGUARDlightTM
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
The following table lists some the costs your company typically incurs after an incident with a reversing trailer.
Typical repair
Indicative repair time
Indicative repair cost
Replace or repair trailer doors
2-4 hours
€300-2500
Lights and outside marker lights
0.5-2 hours
€400-800
Repair of underrun protection
1-3 hours
€200-600
Downtime of trailer
0.5-1 day
lost income
Repair of loading dock, roof, gates etc.
2-5 hours
€500-1500
TailGUARD provides a fast return on investment by avoiding these repair costs and reducing unscheduled downtime.
HOW IT WORKS
System activation
TailGUARD is automatically activated when the truck’s gearbox is placed into reverse gear. It works with all truck models.
At the back of the trailer, the outline marker lights start flashing, and a warning signal sounds to alert people standing close to the reversing vehicle.
The system can be turned to ‘silent’ mode for operation during the night.
Driving in reverse
When TailGUARD detects an object within 3 meters behind the trailer, the display of the Trailer Remote Control in the cabin shows the distance to the object with green, yellow or red colored blocks.
TailGUARD automatically slows the trailer down to 9km/h, when the reversing speed exceeds 9 km/hour.
When the trailer comes closer to an object, the outline marker lights blink faster and the frequency of the reverse-warning beep increases.
Automatic stop
TailGUARD stops the trailer automatically at a programmable distance between 30cm and 100cm, depending on the configuration. After the automatic stop, the driver can slowly reverse the last few centimeters, for example, to dock the trailer at the loading area.
TRAILER REMOTE CONTROL
To alert the driver in the cabin, TailGUARD can come with the Trailer Remote Control. This is a unique touch-screen control unit, which is mounted in the truck cabin, as shown in the TailGUARD video above. It is designed to increase both the driver’s comfort and the vehicle’s efficiency. The Trailer Remote Control screen contains three areas.
AREA 1: three warning indicators
Replace brake pads
Immobilizer on/off
Low tire pressure
AREA 2: Distance indicators
While reversing, the green, yellow and red blocks indicate the distance between the trailer and objects in the blind spot behind the trailer.
The 3 vertical bars of blocks indicate the location of the obstacle: left, middle or right
AREA 3: 6 function buttons
The 6 buttons can be programmed to control different functions of the Intelligent Trailer Program
HOW TO ORDER
If you are a fleet, please contact your trailer builder, service center or distributor to buy the system or to obtain more information.
If you are a trailer builder, service center or workshop, you can order TailGUARD sets
Following table lists the hardware sets for the recommended configurations, with the set number and the quantities of the components included in each set.
Partnumber
TailGUARDlight™
TailGUARD™
TailGUARDRoof™
TailGUARDMAX™
Set numbers
400 605 855 0
400 605 856 0
400 605 857 0
400 605 858 0
ELEX
446 122 070 0
1
1
1
1
Sensor 0°
446 122 401 0
2
1
1
2
Sensor 15°
446 122 402 0
0
2
4
4
Trailer Remote Control
446 122 080 0
0
1
1
1
Power cable
449 303 020 0
1
1
1
1
Cable for sensor
449 806 060 0
2
2
2
2
Distribution cable for sensors
894 600 024 0
0
1
3
4
Cable for outline marker light connection
449 908 060 0
1
1
1
1
The automatic braking and the Trailer Remote Control require an EBS E2 Premium. The EBS is not included in the set, and should be ordered separately.
Additional components such as Trailer Remote Control can be ordered separately.
TailGUARD can be retrofitted on existing trailers, without automatic braking and without Trailer Remote Control.
TailGUARD supports the driver and does not take away the responsibility to drive carefully and slowly.
