Wilson Trailer Company

Wilson Trailer Company is an Iowa based corporation headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa. Wilson Trailer manufactures over-the-road trailers including livestock, grain, flatbed, self unloading belt conveyor, and gooseneck livestock trailers.

History

Frank Taplin Wilson founded the company in 1883 as a small wagon and carriage shop in the Huron territory, South Dakota. In 1890, he moved to Sioux City, Iowa to join his brother, George Wilson. Wilson Trailer is still family operated under the fourth generation.

Frank Taplin Wilson (1863–1947), founder
Clarence Arthur Persinger (1895–1959), Frank's son-in-law
Wilson Persinger

Production plants

Wilson Trailer has six facilities:

Sioux City, Iowa — headquarters
Yankton, South Dakota — modern production facility
Moberly, Missouri — modern production facility
Lennox, South Dakota — modern production facility
Sioux City, Iowa — modern production facility
Sioux City, Iowa — modern production facility

External links

Wilson Trailer Company official site

References

Trucking industry in the United States

Regulated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Economy of the United States

Regulations

Manufacturers

Truck manufacturers	AM General American LaFrance Autocar Bering Bremach Brockway Chevrolet CCC Caterpillar CNH Industrial Diamond Reo Dina F650 Pickups Freightliner Ford GMC Hayes Hino Isuzu Marmon-Herrington Mercedes-Benz International Kenworth Mack Mitsubishi Fuso Nissan Oshkosh Peterbilt Ram Trucks Sterling Smith Spartan Tiger Truck Toyota UD Trucks VIA Volvo Ward LaFrance Western Star White

Engine manufacturers	Caterpillar Cummins Detroit Diesel Mack MaxxForce Mercedes-Benz Paccar Volvo

Trailer manufacturers	Fontaine Fruehauf Trailer Corporation Hyundai Translead Lufkin Trailers Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company Vanguard Wabash National Wilson

Motor carriers

Truckload carriers	Celadon Con-way Truckload Covenant England CRST FFE Transportation J. B. Hunt Knight Landstar System PAM Transport Patriot Transportation Prime Roehl Transport Schneider Southeastern Swift USA Truck Werner

Less than truckload (LTL)	ABF Con-way Freight Estes Express Lines Pitt Ohio Express FedEx Freight Old Dominion Freight Line R+L Carriers Saia UPS Freight YRCW

Third-party logistics providers	Access America Transport C. H. Robinson Worldwide CaseStack Freightquote Ryder Total Quality Logistics

National parcel carriers	DHL Express FedEx UPS United States Postal Service

Regional parcel carriers	OnTrac

Moving companies	Allied Atlas Bekins Gentle Giant Moving Company Global Interstate Mayflower National North American PODS Shleppers Moving & Storage Two Men and a Truck United Wheaton

Truck stops

People

Organizations

Glossary

Glossary of the American trucking industry

Popular culture

Film	Black Dog Breakdown Convoy Duel F.I.S.T. The Gang's All Here Joy Ride Maximum Overdrive Over The Top Smokey and the Bandit (series) They Drive by Night White Line Fever Trucker

Television	B.J. and the Bear Ice Road Truckers Movin' On Trick My Truck American Loggers American Trucker

Music	"Convoy" "Papa Loved Mama" "Six Days on the Road" "Teddy Bear" "Phantom 309" "Giddyup Go" "The White Knight" "East Bound and Down" "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" "Drivin' My Life Away" "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" "Girl on the Billboard" "A Tombstone Every Mile" "Roll On Big Mama"

Radio	Road Dog Trucking (Dave Nemo) Red Eye (Bill Mack) Dale Sommers

Other	The Rolling Memorial Citizens band radio

Note: Defunct companies are shown in italics

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