The Wayne manufacturing facility builds Great Dane’s Everest SS refrigerated trailers, which are primarily used for long-haul truckload operations. This 257,000-square-foot plant started operations in 1986 with two production lines. Since then, five additions have been made to the plant. Today, the plant employs more than 550 people and builds more than 5,000 trailers annually for some of the nation’s largest fleets. These fleets include Wal-Mart, Southern Refrigerated Transport, Associated Grocers, JCT, Martin Transport, Dynamic, ERB, Van Wyk, D&A, K&J, Interide, Harris, Midland Complete Equipment, California Overland, Associated Wholesale Grocers, Sargento, and Bruenger.
The 100,000th trailer to come off the line at the plant was a new Everest SS built especially for Decker Truck Line of Fort Dodge IA, a customer of Great Dane’s since 1975.
“We’re extremely proud to reach this historic production milestone here in Wayne,” said Terry Hanson, manager of the Wayne plant. “It’s a clear testament to the quality of product that we produce, and to the spirit of the hundreds of hard-working individuals who carefully craft these outstanding trailers for our customers on a daily basis.”
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