 New
Popup GN5, now you can tow you gooseneck with your Semi-truck.
Slide out your old coupler and slide in the GN5 and tow with
your 5th-wheel.
Order now..
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 Ram
Heavy Duty Upgrades Deliver Class-Leading
Torque and Towing;
Ram Truck
announced a series of upgrades to its Heavy
Duty truck line up. Now boasting the ability
to pull a segment-leading 22,700-lb. maximum
trailer weight, the one-ton Ram 3500 Heavy
Duty will get a performance boost to its
6.7-liter Cummins Turbo Diesel Engine that
will increase its torque by 23 percent to
800 lb.-ft. and be upfitted with a package
of components that will increase its gross
combined weight rating (GCWR) to 30,000 lbs.
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The Trailer Handbook;
I've added this book review because how hard
it is to find a good trailer book. It's
important to have the facts on trailers even
if you grew up towing. I think I own all
the trailer books written the last two
decades, which isn't very many. This
book "The Trailer Handbook" written by Clint
Lancaster & Richard Klein, is different as
the authors don't own a trailer factory or
dealership.
They both work with and for the NATM (National Association of Trailer
Manufactures) which is the publisher. Trailers can
get technical, so the specs and glossary are
worth price tag.
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2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty Regains
Towing Leadership;
Production began on Ford F-Series
Super Duty trucks with upgraded towing capacity. The beefed-up
frame and hitch return the industry's best-selling heavy-duty
truck to the head of the pack in conventional trailer towing.
Ford F-350 and F-450 Super Duty trucks with the 6.7-liter Power
Stroke® V-8 diesel engine and dual rear wheels now can tow an
industry-best 17,500 pounds. That’s 1,000 pounds more than GM
4x2 and 500 pounds more than the GM 4x4.
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 The world is a better place
because Henry Ford decided to quit working for Thomas Edison and
struck out on his own to invent the first assembly line.
Cimarron Trailers carries on the American tradition of starting their
own company to prove they can build a better custom progressive
horse trailer.
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 Cody
Hitch
Protect your Living
Quarters gooseneck investment in your horse trailer. Cody
Cushion from Cody Hitch has one air bag, and a double hinge. Up,
down and front to back cushion.They will adapt to Cody
Hitch, B&W and Popup truck bed hitches. With today's Living
Quarter horse trailers, you need protection for the fine
cabinets and mirrors.
Order now for $449
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 Automated
Safety Hitch, Joe
Jamieson thinks towing is an evolutionary process, and should
improve issues of safety and ease of use. Now with thousands of
miles towing with the Automated Safety Hitch, I understand it's
importance and fun. I can take my rig, which at times is 72 ft.
long, weave in and out of hotel parking lots, gas stations and
switchback mountain roads. The
braking
steer axle makes it quadra-steer.
It looks complicated until you
understand it. The four features that standout the most using
this new trailer technology is......
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NEW and Improved
You're going to love this newly redesigned
PopUp 2 Hitch.
Smoother acting and
trouble free. They've made the best hitch even better.
One pull of the handle to raise the ball is all it will take to
convince you that this is the hitch you want. Simply pull the rod to raise the ball and push
to lower it from your trucks wheelwell.
More
info....
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 Popup
Industries RV3 5th-Wheel to
Gooseneck Adapter Do you have too
many hitches for all of your different trailers? There’s bumper
pull, gooseneck, fifth wheel, you name it there’s just too many
combinations out there sometimes. Pop up industries helps out
here by offering their fifth wheel to gooseneck adapters. This
handy little product allows you to tow your fifth wheel camper
using the gooseneck hitch you already have in the bed of your
truck thus eliminating one hitch from your collection. Pop up
industries has been around for years starting with their PopUp
Gooseneck ball hitch and now with many hitch extensions for
short bed trucks,
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Summit Hauler
1-800-909-7071
Logan Coach |
Hybrid Air/Torsion Axle with 8 inches of
wheel travel,
almost 3 inches of
drop for lowering the trailer to load. It's a soft ride
that will keep your horses fresh when you arrive at your
next event.
The price will surprise you.
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Gooseneck
ball hitches, short bed hitches, 5th wheel conversions, the list
goes on |
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 Updates
from each event, pictures & commentary,
MrTruck.com
Presents:
"EZ-Connector Horse Expo Tour."
With
the latest trailer safety and technology accessories on
exhibit on tour, come by and watch demonstrations We'll
be displaying some helpful technology for safe towing. Stop by,
see our display and ask questions.
Click for the "Tour" schedule,
see when we'll be in your state. |
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 Rollin’
Rollin’ Rollin’ … Keep that Trailer Rolling…’
By Stephen
Louie “Hosspuller”
One
of the worst things to happen with a horse trailer is a
mechanical break down on the road. If you have never been
there, thank your lucky stars. There are... reasons
Read it now.... |
Superchips Announces All-New
Cortex Vehicle Performance Programmer Line with a Two-Year
Powertrain Warranty
The
Superchips Cortex comes with all of the same great features that
Superchips’ users have come to love, including programming up to
three performance tunes to enhance power, economy, and
drivability. These features include the ability to save factory
settings; program for performance, towing, or economy; tune
transmission settings for improved drivability; read and clear
diagnostic trouble codes; adjust speed and RPM limiters; and
recalibrate speedometer/odometer for tire and gear swaps.
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Affordable Injectors
By Jake Morton
For many of us
with 1994-1997 Ford Power Stroke Diesel’s, there is a limit to
how much horsepower we can make. In 1999, Ford redesigned some
things and power levels went up considerably, especially when
adding aftermarket devices. For a long time, all the early
Power Stroke owners could do was a chip or programmer, exhaust,
and an air intake. Anything else was just out of the question,
price wise, for most hobbyists, daily drivers, and
do-it-yourselfers. But now.....
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Electricity, far from the
City … And everyone else. By: Hosspuller
Once upon a time,
horse camping meant a canvas tent to keep from getting wet and a
saddle for a pillow. Today, horse camping means a horse trailer
rig with all the features of … home. Electricity makes a
person comfortable, at home and at camp. The opposite is also
true; electricity can make a person dead, at home and at
camp. This article is about your camping rig operating on 120
volt AC current and a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI or
GFI).
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They are bold and sexy!
I consider them the best built mudflaps I've found. The new model has a
polished aluminum yoke, and heavy wall aluminum tubing. Still adjustable
in, out and up, down. Which is so good for my truck reviews which range
from a tall H2 to a Nissan Frontier. And I review new trailers too, any
mudflaps can protect your trailers from mud, that's a slow speed
problem. But the damage comes from....
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New Truck Repair Technology
comes to Horse Trailers
 If you follow
my articles, you know how big a fan of new technology I am. At the new
Transwest Truck Trailer RV facility, is an
awesome machine called a Road Simulator. Looks kind of like a dyno, but
does use rollers to test brakes rolling resistance and balance. Transwest uses it to test all their new horse trailers so
they are ready for your roads. It can find
just a torn axle seal leaking on the brakes. It would surprise you how
many "new axles" on new trailers are over greased, limiting your trailer
brakes ability. With the kind of traffic we
pull trailers in, testing brakes becomes routine. And worn suspension
maybe be causing your rig to ....More....
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 Now
there's help for the short-short beds. New from PopUp, the
SB116. The long short bed solution. It's "16" inches
of extension. Before you loose your pickup trucks rear window or
worse, check out the solution. Shortbed trucks are the most
popular. But the trailer manufactures don't know it yet. Finally
backup with the tailgate down and without hitting the propane
tanks.
More... |
 I visited
PopUp's head quarters in Chanute Kansas
this spring. Kansas, like Iowa is know for making farm machinery. PopUp
Industries is in the part of Kansas, where generations of
welders understand quality metal working, like the Amish bring
quality to RV manufacturing. What better place to make hitches for American trucks and
trailers. I first heard of PopUp because of their SB1 shortbed coupler
(picture below).
With shortbed trucks, now the most popular configuration, I
hear from folks every week emailing me that they just crunched the cab
of their truck with the corner of their trailer. Now what do they do?
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Truck and Trailer Security takes Action
 Theft is such a personal event. We buy things enjoy
them and someone takes them away. I stay at allot of motels around the
country and am relieved when I leave in the morning and my trailers are
still connected to my truck. Just added several more products to my
trailers to make me less nervous in Vegas parking lots, the only place
theft has visited me successfully.
Read more.
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2004 Dodge Cummins HO Budget Hop
Up by Gary Scott
I got my first
diesel in the fall of 2003. I was nearing retirement age and my
wife and I decided that a pickup and travel trailer would be he best
combination for us as I wanted to keep the pickup bed open to haul
my dirt bikes and mountain bike. We were really looking for a low
mileage used diesel because I'm a Scotsman and try to save where I
can. You'll see examples of my frugality as you read on.
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General Motors says it is investing in a ... company that claims
its secret process could be able to make ethanol from waste in
large quantity as soon as 2010 for $1 a gallon or less,
half the cost of making gasoline. Bill Roe, CEO of 18-month-old
ethanol maker Coskata, says the company's process uses bacteria
developed at the University of Oklahoma and existing
gasification technology to generate 99.7% pure ethanol, plus
water. He says the method should leapfrog cellulosic production,
which has been seen as the next step from today's ethanol
production using corn. GM won't disclose its investment, but Roe
says it's enough to make Coskata "a speed-to-market play. I
don't think most people saw this coming," he says. "Most talk
about cellulosic ethanol is futuristic." Source:
USA Today |
 At
the All American Quarter Horse Congress in Ohio, I was doing
circle contests with the Freightliner M2 and the GMC Denali
Quadrasteer. Of course the Quadrasteer won. But when I shut off
the 4-Wheel Steer, the Freightliner M2 won. When means the M2
can turn tighter than just about any truck. |
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Truck, SUV,
Trailer, Accessory,
Reviews & New Products. |
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Buying
a Truck That Will Tow Right for You!
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MrTruck Recommended
Towing Accessories Reviewed Below |
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 Reviews,
The Good,
the Bad, &
the
Ugly.
 We
know most of you can't test drive vehicles
for very long, nor do they let you pull trailers with them.
That's why we review trucks and SUV's longer and try to pull trailers
with all of them
to find their strengths and weaknesses. We test trucks & SUV's that are
large enough to tow at least 5000#'s. |
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MrTruck's Web Wisdom: "If it
ain't broke keep it away from your brother-in-law." |
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Towing
Reviews & News.
Matching Trucks & Trailers |
  Finally
ABS brakes for trailers !
Fast, smooth
and safer than any brake system we've tried.
We took our test trailer to the race track,
smoked the brakes, burnt the seals and
proved how dramatically superior hydraulic
disc rotors, electric-hydraulic actuators,
ABS modules and a trailer brake controller
that networks with your trucks computer can
be. Electric brake drums didn't stand a
chance in our side by side comparison. A big
step toward safer trailering on our crowded
highways and unpredictable weather patterns.
Share this detailed report about the
difference ABS trailer brakes can make. |
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2010 Heavy Duty Shootout Comparison
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It's
time again for our truck shootout.
Every couple of years, we have
enough all new trucks in a category
to compare. Of course it's with
trailers, towing up 16 % grades,
drag racing, testing brakes, exhaust
brakes, grade shifting and fuel
mileage. With graphs, charts and
butt dyno. Score a truck to tow your
trailer, here is the guide.
The whole
story.... |
ShootOut 2008 for
2009 1/2
ton trucks: At PickupTrucks.com and
MrTruck.com, You want all the truck details so
that you can make the best decision possible.
That’s why we created Light-Duty and Heavy-Duty
Shootouts that put these ever-changing trucks to
the ultimate tests.
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Page 2,
Page 3,
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Your Online
Pickup
Truck,
SUV &
Trailer
Resource Magazine. |
 Gooseneck Easy
Coupler;
Do you know if your gooseneck coupler is
latched? Bulldog couplers are on the majority of
gooseneck trailers for decades. We've all used them and cussed them
when we have to pry the handle up to unlatch and teeter-totter our
belt buckles on the truck bedrail to reach in and get them latched or at least
hope we have them latched.
Folks tell me about what they don't like
about their trailers and gooseneck couplers are a popular complaint.
I hook and unhook my gooseneck every week, in the rain, in the snow
and in the dripping heat.
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The Best
Tranny Pans, Differential, and Valve Covers. |
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  PML knows how to keep you covered!
You hear me complaining about oil capacity on this
website constantly. Now I found a way to add 2 or 3
more quarts of oil to your tranny and differential.
The more oil, the more cooling ability, the longer
your truck will stay out of the shop and on the
road! Pulling trailers builds extra heat in your
engine, transmission and axles. You need extra oil
capacity and a cover designed for cooling, not the
stamped flat pans and covers truck manufactures buy
100,000 at a time from the cheapest bidder. It's up
to you to give your truck the longest life.
Click for more.
Keep your Differential &
Tranny Pan cool with more oil capacity, order now.
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2011 FORD F-150 SVT RAPTOR ADDS SUPERCREW,
TOWING, 6.2-LITER ENGINE:
“We spent a
lot of time getting the ride and suspension
characteristics of the SuperCrew similar to
that of the SuperCab.” A larger 36-gallon
fuel tank and increased towing capability –
rated at 8,000 pounds – keep F-150 SVT
Raptor SuperCrew a mainstay in the desert
environment, with capabilities as a chase or
tow truck.
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EZ
CONNECTOR UNVEILS TWO NEW ADAPTERS THIS
MONTH
Leading
Trailer Manufacturer Brings 4-Pin Flat
and 6-Pin Round Adapters to Market for
Use with its EZ Recreational 7-Pin
(EZR7) Electrical Towing Connection
System
EZ
Connector Inc.,
developer and manufacturer of
high-performance products for improving
the safety and reliability of electrical
trailer and towing connections, today
unveiled two new adapters for its
award-winning EZ Recreational 7-Pin
(EZR7) electrical towing connection
system. The adapters, which include a
4-pin flat and 6-pin round version
will...
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  The
New Logan Coach;
an efficient leaner Logan sticks to what
they do best, galvanized steel frames,
aluminum skin and good looking value. Call
it the resale value trailer. Bottom line, "beauty
of aluminum and strength of steel." One
of the few composite trailer brands that can
go head to head with high end aluminum
trailers for longevity.
Always
improving and keeping it's roots with
galvanized Flo-Coat steel frame coated with
Vortex. See the "Whiz Proof" floor.
more.... |
2011 Heavy Duty GM's, More
Power, More Frame and More Suspension:
For 2011 GM went
massive truck improvement, as in frame,
suspension, payload, brakes and towing
ability puts Chevy and GMC HD trucks at the
top of their segment. It's improvements we
all want and of course the power and fuel
mileage have also improved. The new
suspension keeps the power under control and
tires planted on the pavement. Read
MrTruck review....
Read GM Press Release
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  Factory
Review: Featherlite can
pump out thousands of trailers a year, from horse trailers,
cargo trailers, car haulers, NASCAR race trailers, specialty
semi trailers, helicopter pads and portable emergency rooms for
events like Katrina. Featherlite was the first aluminum
specialty trailer born in 1973 when I was sophomore in high
school.
Featherlite started the trend in1985 with torsion axles,
ahead of the crowd.
Better ride than leaf springs and safer.
See the models and features being built |
  Cimarron
Premium Trailer Review, 10 Years to the Top
Even in the current recession, Cimarron Trailers is improving,
expanding and zeroing in on efficiency. The factory is staying the
same size, but putting out 25% more trailers. There is a handful of
aluminum trailer manufactures at the top in premium trailers. None
surpasses Cimarron current models. The top trailers need smart
engineering, custom doors and windows, top components, strong
beautiful welds etc. The result is quality uniformity on all
trailers from roof to axles. Where else would you build horse
trailers, but the heart of
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 The
airless bag to prevent your sag
and improve your ride! For
trucks with campers, trailers,
commercial bodies and all other loads..
SumoSprings
(the
world’s first and only “airless airbag” suspension
system for trucks and vans)
are manufactured from an advanced high grade, closed
cell polyurethane foam; ideal for the tough truck
underbody environment. The product underwent testing in
extreme conditions ranging from blistering US desert
summer days to the frigid Canadian winter nights.
Combining heavy loads with extreme terrain and
temperature conditions over eighteen months of testing
ensures their performance in any similar conditions our
customers might encounter.
More...
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Trailer Electronic Technology for Safer, Easier Connection.
EZ
is a magnetic connection, powerful magnets. Just get the male end near
the female plug and "pop" it sucks together. A tab slot align the socket
and plug to match the right connections. The male end has two silicone
o-rings, the cables have sealant injected inside, all to make the system
water proof. If you can keep the water out, you can keep the mud and all
the corrosive chemicals used to dissolve ice on the highway out. Spent my share of nights with a flashlight in
my mouth in the rain as I work on trailer lights.
See the review.... |
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CNG, is it the Answer for the Fuel Crisis?
Update Dyno
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 Forget veggie oil, bio-diesel, power programmers and hydrogen water separators. And hear the gospel of CNG/diesel. The beauty of this system is if I can't find a Compressed Natural Gas fill up station, I just run on diesel. We've now had time to run several tanks through our test truck in a loop using both CNG and diesel together at 2 to 1. We reduced our fuel cost per mile 23% to 27% with Colorado prices. Almost double that with Utah prices, Read the rest as one of the most important reviews this year... |
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DualLiner... real truck bed protection
system by Mark
Simonds
 If
you’re a truck owner, you know the importance and value of
the bed of that truck. You can haul just about anything
from Grandma’s rocking chair to a load of gravel. The only
problem is that after a few months of use, the bed floor and
sides will start to show their age much faster than the rest
of the truck. Scratches, dings, and dents will eventually
appear... making the truck look older than it really is –
and more importantly....
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Cimarron Custom
Horse Trailers, New Thinking, Strength & Beauty! |
 2010
Dodge Ram Heavy Duty, 2500-5500
Now a full size Crew Cab and an eight
ft. bed.
2010
Dodge Ram 3500 Mega Cab still only in a short bed (6' 4"), new
sexy
more aerodynamic
fenders are all metal now. Styling
cues inside and out are from the 2009 Ram 1500 for a quieter,
tighter cab.
No Urea (diesel exhaust
fluid) like Ford and GM diesels for 2010 new emission laws.
Dodge will be the only truck offering a
manual and automatic transmission.
The review... |
 SAE
Trailer Standards; finally some rules for matching your
truck and trailer. Mike Levine of PickupTruck.com reports
on the upcoming Society of Automotive Engineers standard with
collaboration from truck, trailer and hitch manufactures.
More.... |
 Featherlite
SURV, a heavy duty trailer for your Toys. We camp at Tiger Run in
Breckenridge and Circus Circus Koa in Vegas. We installed
Power Vision mirrors, Hell-Ya Hitch Helper, Valley Odyssey brake
controller and Truck Bedz. Featherlite built an "off-road" toy hauler
that's made like a tank, so you can get to the prime remote locations
for 4-wheeling or 2-wheeling or just a HQ for outdoor adventure.
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 Battery Maintenance and Pulse
Technology Conditioning with Solar can Double your Battery Life.
Batteries
keep us rolling and give us conveniences in our trucks and trailers. But
if you don’t maintain them, you’ll be stranded and surprised. I run a
lot of toys from my eight 12 volt outlets in my truck, from my cooler to
my motion detector in the trailer.
Diesel trucks use two 12 volt
batteries for extra power to start a diesel engine. This also gives you
reserve power going down the road. Living Quarter horse trailers usually
have two deep cell batteries that can be drawn down and last a long
time. With 4 batteries between your truck and trailer, proper
maintenance is as important as checking our trucks oil level. There's new
technology that can do most of the work for you.
Sulfation is the largest cause of battery
deterioration.
SolarPulse Industrial Solar
Charging System is a product that reenergizes the sulfates and
charges your batteries with sunshine,
more... |
 MegaHitch, Trailer Lock, Peace
of Mind in a Box;
In this economy trailer theft is up,
you'd be surprised how fast a stolen trailer becomes a homemade
trailer and re-titled in another state. Thief's are like coyotes,
they adapt fast and look for easy targets. Don't be the easy target.
It's getting common, someone telling me their white stock trailer
was stolen while parked at a sale barn or at a fair grounds equine event.
Desperate times increases the population of desperate criminals and
trailers are an easy target.
More...
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 Merhow
Horse Trailers,
More than 50 years
of
Horse Transportation Experience and a Warranty that Tops the Industry.
It's the Heavy Duty solid horse trailer, a
50 year old plus company with design, style
and structural integrity. I
revisited the
Horsepitality Company in 2010. Surviving the Great
Recession, Merhow is still selling all the trailers they can
build. Quality trailers, with very low warranty issues even though
they have one of the longest warranties in the horse trailer
business (eight years.) Dave Elchert bought the company in 1989, and believes that
making happy customers make happy horses.
Read the review... |
Blue Ribbon Trailers
started manufacturing stock trailers in
Oklahoma, with the addition horse trailer
models; they quickly out grew that facility.
In order to produce a full line of horse
trailers with living quarters, Clint Leonard
decided the most cost effective means would
be to move the manufacturing to Ohio to be
closer to suppliers and labor pools. This was the
perfect scenario for the hands on approach
Clint was looking for producing top of the
line trailers.
More.... |
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Featherlite Trailers merge
with Universal Trailers.
More.... |
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 Ode to the Tailgate,
You don't think much
about your trucks tailgate, but try to do without one. On the farm, my
tailgate was a workbench, sawhorse and picnic table. I had a vice bolted
to it, in the eighties had a tailgate with built in ramps for loading a
ATV.
More...
DEBO
Step®.
(picture right) My
old knees don't like me climbing on my tailgate. I like Debo Step
because it's not in the receiver hitch like most...... For
more,
www.debostep.com |
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