Few people outside the transportation industry understand the importance of trailer trucking to our economy. Virtually everything produced in the United States moves over our roads, while relatively few goods move exclusively by rail. Truck trailers move the majority of all freight, including raw materials, industrial supplies and fuels. For the most part, finished goods and agricultural produce are shipped to warehouses, retail stores and homes in truck trailers.

Great Dane designs and produces trailers for all of these uses - for hauling dry freight, refrigerated foods and other cargo. Drop frame trailers are made for hauling furniture and electronic equipment; open top trailers for produce; flatbed or platform trailers for hauling machinery and steel. Many of these trailers may be shipped by highway, rail or vessel.

Reliable transportation facilities are vitally important to production and distribution in this country. Great Dane satisfies this important need by producing quality products to the exact specifications of its customers. To do this, our engineers painstakingly test prototypes until they are convinced that the quality of the design is unsurpassable. Using many types of sophisticated equipment, they test for road stress, weight bearing capacity, structural weakness, thermal leaks and brake efficiency. Weight is engineered out while strength and insulation qualities are engineered in. The result is a durable, versatile line of trailers boasting the highest resale value in the country.