Fruehauf, August Charles
Published: September 6, 2006, 8:22 pm
Updated: September 6, 2006, 8:22 pm
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August Charles Fruehauf (1868–1930), an American blacksmith and carriage builder who invented the tractor-trailer, a truck with the cab and engine separate from the main body of the truck. Fruehauf developed the tractor-trailer after, in 1914, a local lumber merchant asked him to build him a “thing to hitch to my Model T Ford that will take my boat to the lake". The trailer was so successful that the merchant had Fruehauf build similar haulers for his lumber, which Fruehauf came to call "semi-trailers." In 1918, Fruehauf incorporated his semi-trailer manufacturing company forming the Fruehauf Trailer Company. With the subsequent growth in automotive technology and expansion of the highway system, semi-trailers would become the dominant means of moving goods over long distances.
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Cutler J. Cleveland (Lead Author);Tom Lawrence (Topic Editor) "Fruehauf, August Charles". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth September 6, 2006; Last revised Date September 6, 2006; Retrieved May 23, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Fruehauf,_August_Charles>
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Cutler J. Cleveland is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Professor Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier, 2005), Handbook of Energy (Elsevier, forthcoming), and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. He is the recipient of the Adelma ... (Full Bio)
August Charles Fruehauf (1868–1930), an American blacksmith and carriage builder who invented the tractor-trailer, a truck with the cab and engine separate from the main body of the truck. Fruehauf developed the tractor-trailer after, in 1914, a local lumber merchant asked him to build him a “thing to hitch to my Model T Ford that will take my boat to the lake". The trailer was so successful that the merchant had Fruehauf build similar haulers for his lumber, which Fruehauf came to call "semi-trailers." In 1918, Fruehauf incorporated his semi-trailer manufacturing company forming the Fruehauf Trailer Company. With the subsequent growth in automotive technology and expansion of the highway system, semi-trailers would become the dominant means of moving goods over long distances.
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