Carlisles Transportation Products
segment has built its reputation and earned a
leadership position through Trail Kings
line
of specialty trailers and Walker Transpor-
tations line of stainless steel tank trailers.
Trail King offers a full line of construction
trailers along with the ability to custom design
specialized trailers with payload capacities of
up to 1,000,000 pounds. Trail King is
developing a full line of material hauling trailers
and, with the addition of the Red River and Ti-
Brook product lines, will be the only
manufacturer in the country able to supply a
full line of end dump, side dump, bottom dump
and live-bottom trailers. This line of material
trailers represents an emerging growth market
for Trail King. Production is supported by
manufacturing facilities in West Fargo, North
Dakota; Mitchell, South Dakota; and Brookville,
Pennsylvania.
Walker Transportations line of transport trailers for the chemical,
dry bulk, food and dairy industries rounds out an extremely diversified business
for Carlisle. Walker is committed to being
the leader in the sanitary tank trailer industry and is well known for its
high quality and innovative product line. Walker furthers this commitment
with a company-owned service center, parts
inventory and national distributor network. New Lisbon, Wisconsin is the home
of Walkers
production facility.
New product development has been a priority throughout 2001. New products
include a new hydraulic sliding axle trailer that is sold in both the paving
and towing markets and aluminum pneumatic dry bulk trailers for the construction
and food markets. Trail King has also developed a new combination steel/aluminum
bottom dump trailer that is 1500 to 2000 pounds lighter than any other competitive
steel trailer on the market.
Flow line manufacturing has been implemented
throughout Transportation Products to significantly reduce inventories, reduce
production costs, and gain greater efficiency and speedier delivery to the
customer.

