Featherlite Trailers: Difference between revisions

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The Featherlite brand name was first established in 1973 when the company created the first all-aluminum gooseneck livestock trailer. While the brand was started in Oklahoma, Featherlite Manufacturing Inc., located in Grand Meadow, Minnesota, acquired the brand and established itself as a company in 1988. The company relocated to Cresco, Iowa in 1993. In 1998, the company changed its name to Featherlite, Inc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/featherlite-inc |title=Featherlite, Inc.: Information from |publisher=Answers.com |date= |accessdate=2010-06-17}}</ref>

Featherlite is closely associated with [[NASCAR]]. The company created the first ever custom aluminum race car semi trailer for NASCAR racer [[Dale Earnhardt]] and team owner [[Richard Childress]]. Today Featherlite is the official trailer of NASCAR]]<ref name="nascar1">{{cite web|url=http://www.nascar.com/guides/sponsors/ |title=Nascar.Com |publisher=Nascar.Com |date= |accessdate=2010-06-17}}</ref> and supplies approximately 85 percent of NASCAR Sprint Cup teams with semi trailer race car haulers and vending trailers.{{cn}} Among the teams Featherlite has supplied are those of [[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]], [[Jeff Gordon]] and [[Jimmie Johnson]].

In 2006, Featherlite Trailers became a wholly-owned subsidiary of [[Universal Trailer Corporation]].{{cn}}

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