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    Photos: Hughes Equipment

    Sept. 6, 2015
    Hughes Equipment, like many companies in the truck equipment business, isn’t easy to characterize. The Mount Vernon, Ohio, company clearly is a truck equipment distributor. But a recent tour of the company’s shop showed just how much custom truck body manufacturing has taken over in the three years the company has been in operation...

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    Bruce Sauer | Editor

    Bruce Sauer has been writing about the truck trailer, truck body and truck equipment industries since joining Trailer/Body Builders as an associate editor in 1974. During his career at Trailer/Body Builders, he has served as the magazine's managing editor and executive editor before being named editor of the magazine in 1999. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin.