Assess Welding Quality and Construction Standards

you got to be careful. >> Yep. >> Other things that we did, I was telling you earlier, Stan, that we've got one of these trailers on the road in Canada, and this guy drives it back and forth a lot to his his cabin a 150 mi away on the rugged roads. Much of it is um washboard gravel, and we'll bring it in here every now and then and look at that frame and find out where stress cracks could start. >> Okay. >> And it helps us learn where okay, we can we can make this stronger or that stronger. It's actually led to different gusseting underneath here. And it it's really our way of staying completely in tune with the real world and harsh harsh environments so that we can make sure we're delivering something that's going to last for decades. >> So, as I'm looking at it, Don, when I look at this weld, I see that you have it aluminum welded all the way around. >> Right. >> Are you telling me that other companies don't do that? >> I think there's a lot of them that might weld two sides instead of four on a lot of tube. Um we we just make it a habit here. It's basically if it's structural on the frame and it can be welded, then it is. >> I've seen trailers where they're welded and it looks like I welded it. And that is not bragging rights. >> You're not a good welder? >> I suck at welding. My dad had me do all the welding when I was a kid. [laughter] And so, when you're forced to do something, you tend to hate it. And so, my welding was all right, I'll just burn it until it's until there's enough glob on it. And I've seen trailers actually built like that. I did one where down in Iowa where it was a Horizon trailer versus another company's trailer. I'm not going to say the name of it. I think it was started with a P and ended with a J, but I don't remember any of the other letters in the name. >> you. >> And >> [laughter] >> that thing that thing just it was everywhere. It was flak everywhere. It was just something something to behold and not in a good way, Don. >> sure you could be a great welder if you wanted to, you know, if this didn't work out for you. We could teach you. >> [laughter] >> You know, we've been welding stuff for 43 years. Lots of trailers. We build tens of thousands of aluminum dock sections every year as well. So, we've got outstanding welding talent on board. And I'll be honest, we have some of it some of the more repetitious ones are are…