Today's Trucking and The Lockwood Report Cover Singing Wheels, August Fruehauf & The History of the Fruehauf Trailer Company!

To celebrate the centennial of August Fruehauf’s 1914 invention of the semi-trailer, the Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society has produced a book to tell the company's colorful history and that of the family behind it.

Fruehauf's story is an integral part of North American transportation history in the last century. The pioneering company facilitated the growth of continental transportation as a viable alternative to rail and brought efficient transportation from the farmer's gate and the factory's loading dock. It came to dominate the trailer market.

In 1997 Fruehauf was ranked 75th among the largest companies worldwide, but difficulties both internally and externally led to bankruptcy proceedings not long afterwards and the U.S. company was bought by Wabash National. Yet Fruehauf trailers are still being produced elsewhere in countries like France, Germany, Mexico, and New Zealand.  To read the complete article click here.