Automotive Hall of Fame to induct tractor-trailer pioneer Fruehauf - Hemmings Motor News

The man who lent his name to the General Motors of the trailer industry will also take a place among the automobile industry’s pioneers later this year as the Automotive Hall of Fame inducts its 2017 class of honorees.
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August Fruehauf, as Jim Donnelly wrote in the March 2015 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, “pioneered, in great measure, the modern long-haul truck” by inventing the tag-along semi-trailer and, in the process, triggered the wide-scale distribution of modern consumer goods. A successful blacksmith and wagonbuilder in Detroit and the surrounding area around the turn of the century, Fruehauf built his first trailer in 1914 at the request of a boat owner who wished to transport his craft on dry land behind a Ford Model T. Read more.........