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Low Floor Trailers
Performance Trailers Inc., has been building our own shells now for over 10 years. In the early days most display trailers and transporter were conversion from a manufactures shell –[ i.e. - Kentucky, Dorsey, Great Dane, etc.] As the end product for custom trailers became more demanding on the mass-produced shell ,it became more economical to build the custom shell for the lone purpose intended. The requirements of custom trailers have been such that the low floor demand has always been there. In the 1980’s there was a company, DBX, that designed & engineered a Low floor design. Later on in the 1990’s this design was taken over by the Dallas Smith Corp. and they produced the second generation of the low floor design. DSC introduced many improvements and carried the concept forward. After the turn of the century Marmon Herrington got involved with the suspension module and took it to an new & third generation of achievement and dependability. The Marmon Herrington Co.  get it’s beginning from the Marmon Company which was founded in 1851 . The Marmon Wasp won the very first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 . Today M-H is a leading converter of all- wheel drive vehicles both for military and industry . Of the many improvements that M-H brought to generation 3 was the precision fabrication and close tolerances required of the original design. Using their knowledge and year of manufacturing they have developed a fabrication ‘jig’ that insures each module is completed correctly with in the engineering specifications. Now what all of this is leading up to is the end design for the trailer. The Low -floor translates into more room inside the trailer-[ often refereed to as a High- Cube trailer]- The inside dimension can be up to 12 feet in height. The 12 ft. ht. main deck can also be up to 44-ft feet long. The other important feature is the wheel wells are 74” inches apart.---- allowing most cars to pass through, between the wheel-wells. Tandem axle trails only have 48” between them and no car can pass thru.
The suspension Module comes assembled from M-H.  It is 74” wide at the bottom & tapers up to 80” at the top Each of the 6 wheels has it’s own independent air –ride suspension Performance Trailers designed a removable skirt for service & maintenance Example of skirt - off Example of skirt - on		Example of wheel boxes inside a finished trailer Example of finished wood floor with SS inspection plates in floor Example of great inside height - you can see the wood floor 12 feet below This Tridem Suspension has bee hard at work TMG & GM for 5 years now

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