Charlie Mudd is happy to take orders from trucking companies that want to buy new semi-trailers to pull behind their big rigs.
Buyers have to be patient, though. There’s already a year’s worth of orders for the big, boxy trailers built at the Vanguard National Trailer Corp. plant in Monon, Ind., where Mudd is president and CEO.
“I’d have to tell them we’d build it next September,” Mudd said.
That backlog of orders is one reason why Vanguard chose to build a new assembly plant in Trenton, Ga., in the recently expanded Dade County Industrial Park.
Location of Vanguard National Trailer Corp. plant planned for Trenton, Gs.Earth-moving will begin this week for the 350,000-square-foot, $30 million manufacturing plant that eventually will employ 400 people and crank out 10,000 semi-trailers annually.