Alliance, NE – Crossman Trailer Inc., a new manufacturing company in Alliance Nebraska has finished production on their first Aluminum Gooseneck trailer. This 30 foot trailer has a 25 foot bed with 5 foot beavertail and flip ramps. It is constructed of aluminum and galvanized steel and has a 25,000 lbs GVWR (gross vehicle weight rating).

“Aluminum trailers have several key advantages over their steel competitors” says company president Mark Tolstedt, “the main one being, they don’t rust.”

Tolstedt went on to explain that because they don’t  rust they don’t need to be painted and they retain their resale value, facts proven by the gooseneck livestock trailer counterpart. “Their lightweight construction puts an aluminum trailer at 1500 lbs or more under their steel competitors weight which leads directly to fuel  savings and payload capacity for the owner.” The first trailer rolled out the door at 114 Cheyenne (former Pepsi building) on Sept 9th and was sold before completion. Three dealers have committed to inventory trailers for  Crossman Trailer, Avalon Trailers in Rickardsville IA, Pioneer Garage Inc, in Highmore SD, and K.R. Rauch in Billings MT.

Crossman Trailer in Alliance NE will also sell directly.

Company president, Mark Tolstedt, with 14 years of trailer design experience at Wilson Trailer in Sioux City IA, is responsible for the design and manufacture of this new line of aluminum trailers.

“The Crossman Trailer is built with the same attention to detail and durable construction that customers expect from the livestock and gooseneck trailer that I  designed at Wilson Trailer,” said Tolstedt.

A native of Alliance and a 1979 graduate of AHS, Mark, graduated from UNL in 1985 and took an engineering position with General Motors at  the Proving Grounds in Milford Michigan doing brake test and design.  In 1988, Mark and his wife Jill moved to Chicago where Mark worked for Elgin Sweeper in Elgin Illinois a much smaller company designing street sweepers, with broader project opportunities for his career.  In 1991 he began working for Wilson Trailer in Sioux City Iowa a move which brought his young family closer to his large extendedfamily in Nebraska.  While at Wilson Trailer, Tolstedt quickly advanced and left there in 2007 as the Director of Livestock and Gooseneck Engineering overseeing design of their semi-truck livestock trailers and their gooseneck livestock trailers.

For more information, contact:

Mark or Jill Tolstedt
Crossman Trailer
114 Cheyenne Ave   Alliance Nebraska  69301
308-761-0483  Cell: 308-760-3365
www.crossmantrailer.com