RAM^3 wrote:
"Joe AutoDrill" wrote in message
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Who is the largest trailer manufacture for big rig boxes? Wabash is
second I think, but who is first? Alternate bonus question: Who are the
top 10, 25, etc.



Dunno but virtually all the trailers on the roads around here are Freuhoff
[sp?] and that's been the case for a *very* long time.


Fruehauf trailer USED to be the lastest trailer maker in the world. They
got in trouble in the late '80s and lingered around into the mid '90s
when the were assimilated into Wabash National. The trailer makers ran
into the same problems the automakers faced. Over capacity, high
operating costs, cycles of boom and bust and , well some of them made
dumb business decisions. Those factors brought about a consolidation in
the industry.
Joe,
I forgot about CNF (the Conway trucking companies), they have their own
trailer manufacturing plant. Road Equipment or something like that.

Greg