Founded over a century ago, Dorsey Trailer of Elba, Alabama designs, manufactures, and fabricates trailers that haul goods on roads and highways. Its trailers have been used by NASCAR, country music bands, and even the makers of hit TV shows. Plenty of other clients, big and small, also favor the firm’s wares.

“We supply trailers to Lowe’s, Home Depot, Ryder, U-Haul, and major steel companies,” President Trey Gary states with pride.

Dorsey’s specialties include aluminum trailers, steel trailers, and combination trailers, chip vans, tagalongs, and lowboys. Chip vans are durable but lightweight enclosed trailers commonly used for commodity hauling or to transport wood chips in forestry operations. Dorsey’s chip vans are up to 53 feet long and come in open top, closed top, and walking floor formats. Tagalongs are built to accommodate an extra piece of equipment, while lowboy trailers ride low to the ground, have two separate drops in deck height, and are well-suited for transporting big construction equipment, cars, and other heavy loads.

Dorsey sells its trailers through a vast dealer network that stretches across the United States. Companies in the over-the-road sector, which entails long-distance hauls that can last for weeks, make up about 80 percent of its end users. Other customers include businesses in the oil field, brick, road and bridge work, and construction markets.