Rhodes News
MID-AMERICA TRUCKING SHOW 2008
We are pleased to announce that we will be displaying once again at the 37th annual Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky March 27, 28 and 29. Our booth 34475, located in the main South Wing, will exhibit all-aluminum platform and single drop frame trailers, aluminum double-wall smooth-side dump trailers as well as an aluminum double smooth-wall dump body installed on a new truck with multiple air lift axles.
We hope that you will visit us so we may show you the true value Rhodes has to offer.
Rhodes Trailers and Truck Bodies Adds Reflective Plate for Smooth Sidewall
The smoothest of smooth sidewall trailers exhibited at the Mid-America Trucking Show were shown by Rhodes Trailers and Truck Bodies of Parkersburg WV. To achieve the mirror finish on both dump trailers and dump bodies, Rhodes adds a one-piece sheet of eighth-inch polished aluminum over their standard dump body structure.
Bill Harvey, Rhodes project manager, says the additional sheet of aluminum is not as expensive nor as heavy as using hollow-core extrusions to get a smooth exterior sidewall. The Rhodes double sidewall is easy to repair or replace, he says, and it can be insulated.
The 37-cubic-yard dump trailer exhibited is 28'6" long and has 60" high sides. It is running on a Hendrickson Intraax 50,000-lb suspension and 13,000-lb auxiliary non-steer axle. All 10 wheels are aluminum 24.5 × 8.25 with Michelin XZE 14 PR tires. Trailer weight is 12,660 lb.
-article by Trailer-Body Builders (May, 2006)