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Examine the Polymer Bed Trailer (CargoMax)

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Don presents the CargoMax trailer, featuring a one-piece molded polymer bed. He explains that this trailer is unique in the industry due to its robust, indestructible polymer construction. He elaborates on the manufacturing process, mentioning that Floe Trailers utilizes the world's largest thermoforming machine to create these large polymer beds, with the capability to form pieces up to 25 feet long. The discussion includes a memorable anecdote about a tree falling on a polymer trailer bed, only for it to reshape itself back to normal in the sun, demonstrating the material's resilience.

Goal: Learn about the unique features and durability of polymer bed trailers.

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  • CargoMax Utility Trailer Floe Trailers — Demonstrating features of a polymer bed trailer
  • Thermoforming Machine Floe Trailers — Used in the manufacturing process of the polymer bed

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quality trailers, steel trailers. They got a thin coat of paint on them. There's probably no aluminum wood deck. You know, they're fairly inexpensive. They're more disposable and quite affordable versus all the way up to, I guess, in the utility trailer realm to a flow type trailer. Um one of the things we've noticed in the utility trailer industry and probably other trailers, but you know, we're pretty active in in utilities, there's been a lot of consolidation with private equity groups buying a lot of the smaller privately owned companies that we've competed with for for decades in most cases. And a lot of them are still the same brand they used to be. Um but they're owned by an equity group. They're they might not be so focused on the customer and making the customer happy as they are the shareholder getting good value out of it. So >> So that's the relevance to that. >> And what, you know, what that can lead to sometimes is cost-cutting. And some of it's easy to spot, and some of it isn't. Like something that's easy is if you took a aluminum deck like we have on our UT trailer line over here. >> Okay. >> Uh this is one of our demos. It's not the prettiest, but we've been using it. But an all aluminum deck, what we see a lot of times is an a manufacturer will switch it over to wood. All right, it's a lot less money. I get it. We're all like things are so much money and they cost so much right now. How can I make my money go further? So I understand that they're doing that. Of course, the wood's not going to last as long and the overall value probably not as good. >> Okay. >> Um we have stuck with aluminum on that. >> So you don't offer wood at all on your trailers? >> No. >> Now how long have you been doing this for though, Don? >> Well, so we've been building trailers from the snowmobile style aluminum trailers for 42 years. These aluminum style utility trailers are we're 20 years into our Cargo Max and I think about 24 into an all aluminum utility. >> So this is the Cargo Max? >> This is the Cargo Max. >> We've been doing it for 20 years. >> This is the famous one that I ran over with Josh the Stony Ridge farmer with that lull right there. That's the one. So, your bed on this thing is let's walk through this because this is a one-of-a-kind. This is the unicorn in the industry. You have the world's largest polymer forming machine behind that wall over there, if I…

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