• Trailer aero-maker adds distributors

    SmartTruck, a manufacturer of trailer aerodynamic devices, has added two distributors, Trudell Trailers and Midlands Carrier Transicold, for its UT-6 Trailer UnderTray System. The UT-6 system has shown up to a 10% gain in fuel efficiency in standardized SAE tests, according to the company, and it is included in the EPA SmartWay program’s verified aerodynamic technologies list
    Feb. 9, 2011

    SmartTruck, a manufacturer of trailer aerodynamic devices, has added two distributors, Trudell Trailers and Midlands Carrier Transicold, for its UT-6 Trailer UnderTray System. The UT-6 system has shown up to a 10% gain in fuel efficiency in standardized SAE tests, according to the company, and it is included in the EPA SmartWay program’s verified aerodynamic technologies list.

    Headquartered in Green Bay, WI, Trudell Trailers is a Great Dane trailer dealer covering Wisconsin, Upper and Western Michigan, Minnesota and North Dakota. In addition to trailer sales, rentals and leasing, it offers repair, maintenance and painting services, and heavy-duty aftermarket parts.

    Trudell has full-service facilities in Minneapolis, Fargo, ND, Grand Rapids, MI., and Green Bay and Milwaukee, WI, as well as a sales/leasing office in Wausau, WI.

    Midlands is an authorized Carrier Transicold dealer that is headquartered in Omaha, with parts and service centers in Grand Island, NE, and Dodge City, KS.

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