By 1999, Great Dane completely updated its branch locations with the expansion of the Little Rock, Arkansas, sales office to a full-service branch. The merger the next year of Great Dane and Pines Trailer created the Great Dane Limited Partnership, making it one of the world’s largest trailer companies. In 1996, Great Dane opened a dry van plant in Terre Haute, Indiana, as well as an adjacent parts distribution center. Great Dane officially expanded internationally during the 1980s. This addition created the broadest line for reefers in the entire industry. In 1988, Great Dane acquired the SuperSeal reefer production line and plant in Wayne, Nebraska. It is the only one of its kind still in operation. In 1982, Great Dane installed computer-controlled road simulation equipment that the Research and Development Lab in Savannah, Georgia, still uses today. The idea of expansion and improvement became the new motto to inspire the company to make changes. That year also marked the completion of the 10,000 square foot Savannah Engineering Research Lab built for testing of design and construction, which allowed the facility to double production. Brazil is still Great Dane's largest manufacturing facility. In the present day, the plant is focused on specialty work as well as reefers and dry freight vans. In 1974, Great Dane grew even further by building a manufacturing plant in Brazil, Indiana, that originally focused solely on vans and the western/mid-western business spheres. In 1972, Great Dane purchased an all-platform trailer manufacturing location in Memphis, Tennessee, from Arrow Trailer.
It also completed its first order of maritime containers in 1963 for the American shipping industry. By 1961, Great Dane joined the railroad industry, manufacturing its first piggyback trailer for easier transportation of goods.
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The 1960s were full of alternate transportation opportunities.
The original signature dog oval was black, but officially rebranded to red to commemorate the changing of the name. In 1958, the company officially changed its title from the Steel Products Co.
By the mid-50s, the company had sales outlets throughout the Eastern United States, located in 31 cities in 18 states. The company responded with the aluminum van trailer and tandem axle, which was utilized across the nation. Once the Interstate Highway System was established, Great Dane was challenged to build longer and bigger trailers, while continuously making them lighter. When Eisenhower signed the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act in 1956, the federal government began regulating truck size and weight. It was quickly followed by Great Dane’s official line of Sno-Zone Reefers. Originally created as a cooled produce van, the trailer used a wet ice bunker and a gas engine blower system. This led to the year 1947, which saw the first of many refrigerated trailers, more commonly known as reefers. After the war, demand for fresh fruits and vegetables was high. Throughout the war, America had been growing its own fruits and vegetables at home to be able to conserve and send more food to the soldiers overseas. Great Dane's solution was to use thin, strong high-tensile steel to make the trailers lighter.ĭuring WWII, Great Dane was called upon to produce heavy-duty trailers. At this point in history, every state had some form of regulation for the size and weight of trucks traveling on highways. The first trailers to be created were flatbeds but by 1934, both tank trailers and enclosed vans were added to the roster. The trailers designed by the team were called Great Danes, after the dogs. To improve their road trailer, the company hired a team of experienced trailer builders. to grow by designing and manufacturing trailers for over-the-road freight hauling. This was an opportunity for the Steel Products Co. During the Great Depression, which started in 1929 and continued into the 1930s, Roosevelt’s New Deal called for highways to be modified and rebuilt, giving jobs to thousands of struggling Americans. It remained here for almost a century where its employees worked alongside a 10-ton traveling crane and power tools for cutting and punching to operate the steelwork and blacksmith facilities. In 1920, the company moved to a 10,000 sq. Changing its name to reflect that, it became the Steel Products Co. By 1916, Great Dane manufactured diverse steel plate and structural steel products and systems. in Savannah, Georgia, in 1900, fabricating sheet metal systems to move sawdust and woodchips in saw mills and woodwork plants. Great Dane was founded as the Savannah Blow Pipe Co.
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