Building the Best for Over Half a Century

When the company started in 1958 we built truck bodies in an old fire station and later, in a converted gymnasium. In the late 1960`s our owner, Jerry Whitehead, saw a market for better trailers that could be made lighter. Using his experience in the Idaho Air National Guard he began to incorporate aircraft aluminum into the design and manufacturing processes of a new breed of trailer.

We started making livestock and hopper trailers in 1969, and added platform trailers the following year. In 1980 we introduced our Commodity Express® trailer, then wood residual, refuse, Express Floor®, chip, and other specialty trailers soon followed.

In 1982 we opened the doors of our new, self-designed 30,000 square foot plant. We now occupy a campus in Boise, Idaho that is comprised of over 22 acres and nearly 200,000 square feet of space. Over half this space is devoted to our state of the art manufacturing processing, and the balance to our aftermarket heavy duty parts sales warehouse, truck and trailer service, new trailer sales and business office. We also have service, parts and trailer sales centers in Albany, Oregon, and in Spokane, Seattle and Vancouver, Washington.

Western Trailers Today

We recruit good people who care about doing quality work, and then give them the tools to succeed. Experience and talent are a valuable combination.

We continue to manufacture all of our trailers with Western Trailer`s prime directive in mind - "build the highest quality and lightest weight trailers, and then make them better."

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