Word: fruehauf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well last week at the Fruehauf Trailer Co. of Detroit, the biggest U.S. manufacturer of truck-trailers (1953 sales: some $200 million). President Roy Fruehauf, 45, and his brother Harvey, 60, the company's founder and board chairman (at an estimated $150,000 a year) had had a falling out and were battling for control of the company...
...Fruehauf designs for them. For example, during World War II Fruehauf made everything for the Army & Navy from front-line field hospitals to portable command posts and searchlight carriers. Fruehauf's latest model for the Government: a truck post office. It is being designed so that mail can be sorted en route, thus cut delivery time...
...Fruehauf sales reached $132 million, 71% better than 1949. Sales in the first quarter of 1951 shot up to $41.4 million, almost twice the record of last year, and the net was $2,400,000, up 24%. Roy Fruehauf sees no reason why sales should not double this year, reach $260 million. Last week Fruehauf went to work on a new $50 million Government order, added to its backlog of $50 million in civilian orders and an earlier $50 million in military contracts...
Clogged Production. But Roy Fruehauf's problem is not selling trailers; it is making them despite material shortages. When truck tires ran short early this year, Fruehauf kept its production lines rolling by delivering trailers, removing the tires and using them for new deliveries, leaving customers to find their own tires...
...Fruehauf has found no such solution for the growing opposition to big trucks and trailers. State after state has been clamping down hard on truckers for overloading (TiME, Jan. 22). But Roy Fruehauf is not worried that the trucking industry will be seriously hurt. Said he: "Everything we eat, use, or wear travels by truck and trailers...