Quality assurance, security, environmental compliance, and time constraints continue, to challenge the pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, and diagnostic industries; transportation entities must strive to meet those challenges by offering the best possible alternatives at competitive prices. As a known transporter in the life science industry – with numerous years of experience and a recognized reputation – our mission is to maintain your rigorous requirements by observing Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and Good Distribution Practice (GDP) protocols. Our established policies and procedures ensure that your products are handled and managed within the expected parameters you’ve entrusted to us. From the manufacturer to the final destination, K.L. Harring Transportation, LLC will ensure that every effort possible to maintain your product’s integrity has been made.
Multi-Compartment – Multi-Temperature Trailers
Capabilities to maintain 2ºC to 8ºC “keep cold” range, 15ºC to 30ºC (CRT), or any other product-designated temperature ranges
- Capabilities to consolidate various temperature ranges, within separate compartments, while all in the same trailer conveyance
- Individually controlled/validated temperature compartments
- Individual chain of custody controls for each compartment
- More economical “one-truck” alternatives for the shipping of your various products
Trailer Qualification / Mapping / Validation
At KL Harring, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in temperature-controlled transportation. We understand that the integrity of medicinal products depends on precise temperature management. We have established rigorous validation processes for our trailers to ensure appropriate environmental conditions are maintained during transport.
Our trailers undergo meticulous calibration and thermal mapping to ensure optimal performance. We conduct these validations at regular intervals to guarantee consistent temperatures and conditions throughout the transport journey.
Trailer Validation Process
K.L. Harring Transportation, LLC trailer validations are carried out in temperature-controlled environments to simulate transport processes
- Validations emphasize the functionality and adequacy of temperature-controlled transportation solutions to meet your cold chain requirements
- The trailer validation process helps to ensure a product’s stability, efficacy, and shelf life while adhering to the governmental (FDA) compliance guidelines
- Validation processes are supported by a K.L. Harring Transportation, LLC Quality Management Team
- Solutions are based on qualification protocols with hard-copy temperature data receipts to provide you, the customer, with all necessary audit trails
Equipment and Technology
- All validated units have their data loggers calibrated by a NIST-certified (National Institute of Standards and Technology) instrument annually or as specifically required
- Our Quality Management System (QMS) incorporates a documented review process that approves and enables changes to our existing validated program to meet your specific needs
- KLH Traxs© is our proprietary hardware installed on all of our trailers and is designed to capture detailed information to communicate back to our Dispatch Operations Center and customers
- Realtime Temperature Monitoring with redundancy measures
- Temperature deviation alerts are sent from our KLH Traxs hardware to our 24/7 Operations
- Temperature deviation alerts are sent from Thermo-King to our 24/7 Operations and Fleet Maintenance Team
- Realtime Route Monitoring – Route deviation alerts are sent from our KLH Traxs hardware to our 24/7 Operations
- Electronic Records are maintained in our compliant systems that meet all industry best practices to delineate user permissions for every document. Detailed audit trails and logs are retained both electronically and/or in hard copy based on your specific needs.
- Trailers are equipped with driver-facing temperature displays – allowing drivers to monitor temperatures enroute, enabling continuous monitoring and early corrective action.
