Growing up with the last name “Fruehauf” made Ruth Fruehauf feel responsible for her family’s legacy. “When people recognize my last name, they always ask me what happened to the company,” she said.

August Fruehauf, inventor of the semitrailer, will be inducted into the Automotive History Hall of Fame, Hemmings.com reported on March 29. The online newsletter of Hemmings Motor News and other ...

According to Ruth Ann Fruehauf, the story of the trailer company founded by her grandfather is an integral part of the nation’s transportation history in the last century and is now being told in a ...

Fultra, the parent company of Fruehauf, has acquired Randolph, Ohio-based East Manufacturing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fruehauf is a poineer of the semi trailer and in acquiring East ...

On the road to Detroit’s airport, a half-mile-long line of cars crawled along bumper to bumper behind a huge trailer-truck. Suddenly one car swerved out of line, passed the others and drew up ...

Fultra, the parent company of Fruehauf, has acquired East Manufacturing, expanding Fultra's trailer footprint in North America after returning Fruehauf to production in the United States last year.

The granddaughter of Fruehauf Trailers, Ruth Fruehauf, is on a cross-country tour to share the history of this granddaddy trucking company that in its early days operated a plant in San Diego during ...

To celebrate the centennial of August Fruehauf’s 1914 invention of the semi-trailer, the Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society has produced a book to tell the company’s colorful history and that of the ...

Knowing what industrial prospects are looking for has paid off for the Inter-Modal Transportation Authority that oversees Warren County’s Kentucky Transpark. By having a “speculative” building ...

Susanne (Susie) McMaster Fruehauf, of Grosse Pointe Farms, MI and N. Palm Beach, FL, passed peacefully from this world on Saturday, March 7, 2026, surrounded by her family and devoted caregivers. She ...

For 35 years, Fruehauf’s Patio has occupied the familiar pyramid-shaped building at Arapahoe and 33rd Street. As Boulder has changed around it, Fruehauf’s has changed quite a bit, too. Vic and ...