Utility Trailer wins HDT mag award

CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. — Utility Trailer Manufacturing has announced that it has been recognized along with Hendrickson International by Newport Communications’ Heavy Duty Trucking for its innovative Wide Track Suspension System by bestowing the company with the magazine’s Nifty Fifty Award.

A designer and manufacturer of durable, light weight trailers, Utility Trailer’s Wide Track System is one in a string of leading innovations that have moved the trucking industry forward in terms of efficiency, durability and payload, the company says.

Selected by the editors of Heavy Duty Trucking as one of the top 50 products to be introduced in trucking this year, Utility Trailer’s system includes Michelin’s X One Single Wide Tire, a Hendrickson air ride slider with 6″ wider suspension centers, and 6″ longer axles. This system can be used with either “zero” offset aluminum wheels or with the new “zero” offset Motorwheel steel wheel.

This new Utility Wide Track System also allows the use of any, industry standard wheel end and bearing system without a reduction in bearing life or gross axle weight rating.

“Combine the Wide Track System with our thin-wall 4000D-X and you have a durable, productive combo that represents the best our. industry has to offer,” says Craig Bennett, senior vice-president of sales and marketing