50 Years of Trailer/Body Builders
All this year, Trailer/Body Builders will be celebrating its 50th anniversary with a variety of special online surveys and content. Check back here for more archived content, reader memories and more throughout 2009. Looking back at 50 years
Looking back at 50 years of Trailer-Body BuildersNov 24, 2009 4:11 PM Take a peek through the last 50 years of Trailer-Body Builders with more than 50 photos including those featured in the anniversary issue and more. ...
Trailer-Body Builders first issueNov 25, 2009 10:43 AM While Trailer-Body Builders celebrates its golden anniversary, click on the magazine cover to view the first edition of Trailer-Body Builders published in November, 1959. Inside the original issue of the magazine read congratulatory letters from trailer manufacturers in 1959 as well as see how much the technology in the industry has changed since the inception of the magazine. ...
Special FeaturesIt happened this month (November)Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, BY RICK WEBER November 1959 Money-saver. Goodling Equipment Company in Meridian, Mississippi, births the idea of the Swap Body pickup and delivery bodies that are detachable...
It happened this month (October)Oct 1, 2009 12:00 PM, BY RICK WEBER In our first October issue Lone Star State. Utility Trailer purchases a 22-acre site in El Paso, Texas, and plans a 20,000-square-foot facility that is expected to expedite new trailer deliveries to Colorado, Arizona, and Texas distributors...
This month in our industry (September)Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, BY RICK WEBER In our first September issue Stepping it up. Walsh Body and Trailer Corp in Boston, Massachusetts, builds a new plant 30 miles to the south, starts its own line of knock-down kit bodies, and will build a Walsh-Dorsey van trailer...
This month in our industry (August)Aug 1, 2009 12:00 PM, BY RICK WEBER In our first August issueSafety comes first. Arrow Equipment Company of Memphis, Tennessee, is the first-place winner in the TTMA's plant-safety contest....
This month in our industry (July)Jul 1, 2009 12:00 PM, BY RICK WEBER In our first July issue Meeting new demand Riding the crest of the bulk feed movement is Gaddis Brothers Manufacturing Co Inc of Walford, Iowa, which...
This month in our industry (June)June 1973 | Fruehauf’s total revenue for trailer operations exceeds $1 billion in 1978, a new record. The entire truck trailer industry did not break into the $1 billion category until 1973...
This month in our industry (May)May 1979 | Air leakage in refrigerated trailers and van bodies is costing the industry more than $42 million a year in excess fuel use — the equivalent of 70 million gallons of diesel fuel — according to a Department of Energy study...
This month in our industry (April)April 1999 | Former First Lady Barbara Bush gives the keynote address at the NTEA Convention, saying she and the former president have moved 34 times: “This makes me the owner of more broken china than anyone else in America.”...
This month in our industry (March) ...March 1979 | In a glitzy ceremony in Las Vegas, the Truck Equipment & Body Distributors Association becomes the National Truck Equipment Association...
This month in our industry (February) ...February 1969 | Trailer manufacturing may generate a billion dollars in annual sales by 1969, C W “Lefty” Alexander said in his presidential address to the TTMA convention in January, 1960....
Online SurveysMarch SurveyTruck equipment distribution has changed radically over the past 50 years. Who do you think is most responsible for those changes?... February SurveyName the individual who has had the most impact on truck body manufacturing in the last 50 years...
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