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...road to Detroit's airport, a half-mile-long line of cars crawled along bumper to bumper behind a huge trailer-truck. Suddenly one car swerved out of line, passed the others and drew up alongside the slow-moving truck. Out jumped a barrel-chested, thick-necked man who poked his head in the cab and said: "Why don't you pull over? You're the kind of guy that makes people mad at truckers...
...bawled out the truck driver was Roy A. (for August) Fruehauf, 42, president of the Fruehauf Trailer Co. As head of the company which puts more trailers (i.e., freight vans pulled behind trucks or "truck-tractors") on the road than any other trailer-maker, he has a public-relations job to perform. The trailers' size (biggest is 32 ft. 3⅜ in. long, carries 25,000 Ibs.) plus the bad road manners of many of their drivers have helped stir up anti-trucking sentiment around the U.S., and given Fruehauf one of its biggest headaches. But though motorists fume...
Post Office on Wheels. Fruehauf's company "invented"' the modern trailer and has paced the trailer industry for 36 years. In 1915, Roy August Fruehauf, a Detroit blacksmith and wagonmaker, was persuaded by his eldest son, Harvey (then earning $7 a week), to build a trailer with hard rubber tires and open slat sides for hauling lumber. He didn't think much of it, but Harvey thought it had such possibilities that he plugged it in trade journals with the slogan: "A horse can haul more than he can carry. So can a motor truck." The slogan...
...eight plants around the U.S. and Canada (headquarters: Detroit), Fruehauf now produces scores of stock trailer models, including refrigerator cars, liquid tank carriers, log haulers, livestock vans. But much of its business still comes from customers who need special trailers which...
...Government has now begun to listen to the truckers' plea for materials with a more sympathetic ear, has started to funnel more scarce materials away from light trucks to heavy truck & trailer makers. (By diverting rubber from civilian tires, rubbermen increased truck-tire output last month to 360,000 from 317,000 in March...