About Talbert’s Trailer Manufacturing Business

Talbert Manufacturing, Inc. engineers and manufactures to customer specifications a wide variety of heavy capacity trailers and specialized transportation equipment. Located in NW Indiana, Talbert has been serving the transportation industry since 1938 for custom trailers covering commercial, construction, transportation, utility, military, government, aerospace, agriculture, oil field, rail, energy applications as well as inner plant material handling movers and manufacturing systems. We are happy to serve customers in Texas, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Canada, Mexico & throughout all of North America. 

Here are some of the products we make:

• Lowbed  trailers of all types and configurations, including fixed, mechanical and hydraulic gooseneck designs
• Double drop trailers
• Roller Paver trailers
• Travelling axle, 13 & 15 axle trailers
• Hydraulic tail trailers
• Tag-a-Long trailers
• Tilt deck trailers
• Military trailers & tank hauling trailers
• Utility trailers
• Towing & recovery trailers
• Building materials trailers (trusses, beams, concrete commodities)
• Pipe hauling (self-loading/unloading) trailers
• Special purpose container chassis
• Steering dollies (converters, load-dividers, etc.)
• Extendible trailers (flat bed, step decks, lowbed design, hydraulic, mechanical and fixed neck design)
• Running gear assemblies (bunk dollies, axle attachments)
• Bomb carts
• Multi-axle configurations East and West Coast design, including 13 axle trailer and 15 axle sales
• Hydraulically suspended modular dollies and trailers
• Missile trailers and transporters
• Nuclear materials trailers and transporters
• Hazardous materials trailers
• Inner plant & material handling transport
• Equipment trailers
• Parts and accessories for all of the above

 Some of our specific data are listed below:

• US DOT (NHTSA) Vehicle Manufacturer’s Identification Number “40F”
• CAGE 18634
• DUNS 005080122
• NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) 336212, 336211
• SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) 3715
• Registered with CCR (Central Contractor Registration)
• Small Business. Registered w/SBA “Pro-Net”

A Brief History of Talbert

Talbert Construction Equipment Co. was founded in 1938 by Austin Talbert in Lyons, Ill. to provide crane and construction machinery rental and heavy haul transport in the Chicago area.
In 1957 a new plant was built in Rensselaer, Ind. devoted to specialty trailer manufacturing. Ultimately, the facility in Lyons was closed as Mr. Talbert and his team focused on production of trailers in Indiana.

Talbert quickly became known for innovation. Ground breaking new ideas were introduced including:

• 1st lowbed removable gooseneck trailer
• 1st hydraulic removable gooseneck (non ground engaging)
• 1st trailer manufacturer to use high strength heat treated steel (T1A)
• 1st trailer manufacturer to design and incorporate air suspensions
• 1st trailer to use self steering axles.

Several of these innovations were patented, and remain in use today.