TRAIL-EZE

For over 45 years, Dakota Manufacturing Co. Inc. has been one of the leading providers of trailers in Mitchell, S.D. The firm operates through one of its oldest divisions, TRAIL-EZE, which specializes in the manufacture of nine-ton trailers (ramps and tilts) to 50-ton lowboys. TRAIL-EZE offers custom-built equipment-hauling trailers with payload capacities from 10 to 75 tons. It provides towing/delivery of rental equipment to the industrial and construction firms. Some of the firm s vendors include Crewson Industries, Hendrickson International, Prince Manufacturing, Honda and Dual Dynamics.

Founded in 1974 as Western Ag Sales, Trail King Industries, as subsidiary of the Carlisle Companies, designs, develops, manufactures and markets a full-line of equipment trailers for the construction, transportation and industrial markets. The company s trailers range in capacities from 6,000 to 1 million pounds and are marketed worldwide. Trail King material-handling trailers include the Red Rover series, the Ti-Brook series and the Trail King series. The company s open deck trailers are designed for the commercial and construction markets, as well as a wide variety of specialty applications. In addition, Trail King markets dump-body, end-dump, bottom-dump and live-bottom trailers to the agricultural, waste and construction industries. The company also maintains a fully stocked parts department. Trail King Industries is headquartered in Mitchell, S.D., operates a satellite facility in Brookville, Pa., and has sales offices throughout the United States.