DALLAS, TX - Great Dane Trailers debuts its newest refrigerated trailer today at the Great American Trucking Show, furthering its reputation as the industry leader in innovation. The Classic Truckload reefer combines traditional strength and timeless excellence for long-lasting dependability. With the addition of Great Dane-exclusive products like ThermoGuard and CorroGuard, which respectively, help extend the useful life of refrigerated trailers and combat equipment deterioration and corrosion. Both products are featured at Booth #15105 on a 53 ft. CTL reefer and a 48 ft. FREEDOM platform trailer.

Designed to meet the unique needs of today's truckload carrier, the CTL offers unmatched protection against everyday abuses of demanding operations, and low maintenance features for extended peace of mind. Showcased on the CTL is CorroGuard with Technology by GatorHyde®, Great Dane's exclusive spray-in-place thermoplastic elastomer coating applied to suspensions and support gear that provides superior long-term protection from road abrasion and corrosion.

In addition to CorroGuard, the CTL features Great Dane's exclusive ThermoGuard interior lining. This exclusive revolutionary thermoplastic liner helps maximize the useful life of the trailer by significantly reducing the thermal degradation that occurs with conventional reefer linings.

ThermoGuard's innovative construction helps allow the insulation to perform effectively year after year, extending productivity and the useful lifecycle. Plus, operational costs are reduced as the cooling unit will run less, consume less fuel, and require less maintenance, making it the only reefer lining to offer an all-around return on investment.

By helping to maintain insulation performance over the life of the trailer, the cooling unit will not have to work as hard each year to make up for degrading insulation performance. This advantage helps maintain excess capacity, while lowering cooling unit run-time hours and saving cooling unit fuel.

Along with the CTL, Great Dane's most popular platform trailer, the FREEDOM, returns to GATS featuring CorroGuard and Meritor RSS (Roll Stability Support) to help reduce the occurrence of rollovers.

Specifically designed for an "in stock" program, the FREEDOM is a combination steel and aluminum trailer that offers the advantage of getting competitive weight and price without sacrificing strength and durability. The rear crossmember is constructed of extruded aluminum to save weight and reduce maintenance costs, while reinforcements in critical stress areas provide additional strength without adding unnecessary weight to the trailer design as a whole. Two specs are available-12-inch crossmember spacing for extra strength in forklift operations and 16-inch crossmembers for heavy loads where weight must be kept at a minimum.

Great Dane Trailers, a manufacturer of dry van, refrigerated and platform trailers, has long been regarded as the industry leader in technology, innovation and quality. The company has division offices in Savannah, Georgia, and Chicago, Illinois, with seven strategically located manufacturing plants in the United States. With distribution points across North and South America, Great Dane utilizes a network of company-owned branches and full-line independent dealers as well as parts-only independent dealers. Great Dane can be accessed on-line at www.greatdanetrailers.com.