Covered Wagon Trailers Clears Its 100,000th Trailer
Date postedDecember 9, 2024
Covered Wagon Trailers just celebrated their 100,000th trailer!
Born and raised in Fitzgerald, Georgia, owner Gerald Pryor, has been an entrepreneur since the 1980s. He was introduced to the cargo trailer industry in 2009 and, a year later, Covered Wagon Trailers was born. After creating a wildly successful line of enclosed cargos, in 2019 he added Prospector, a line of dump, equipment and box trailers. Covered Wagon is one of the few manufacturers that build both lines in house.
Covered Wagon Trailers prides itself on innovation like making wide entry ramp doors with lift assist handles, 48-inch-wide side doors, and Cobra-lined rear hoop and tongue all standard options. One of the most loved innovations is the pullout steel step, standard on all 8.5 wides. This change deleted the step well allowing for more usable floor space. The most recent offering for the 2025-year model is their UTV trailer. A variation of the traditional escape door, the trailer offers an option for those hauling ATVs, UTVs, 3-wheelers, 4-wheelers and motorcycles, allowing drivers to exit the trailer comfortably.
In addition to the enclosed cargo line and the Prospector dump line, Covered Wagon has its own fabrication shop and door plant, Superior Doors. The fab shop produces many of the parts used on both lines and is vital in producing many of the prototypes that often make it to final product. Superior Doors manufactures doors for the enclosed line and sells doors to other manufacturers to be used on their trailers. The doors are renowned in the industry, in part, due to their proprietary hinges.
Mr. Pryor also built an on-site Powder Coat facility, Pryority Powder Coating, so that parts used on the enclosed trailers could be coated in house. The state-of-the-art Wagner paint system is housed in a 36,000 square foot facility and is also available for outside commercial accounts.
The Covered Wagon Trailer brand, with all of its components, is proud to reach the 100,000th trailer milestone and looks forward to the next 100,000. As Gerald would say, “Sure it’s a trailer, but is it a Covered Wagon trailer?” Please visit www.coveredwagontrailers.com for more information.
