Collapsed trailer manufacturer Boalloy was on the verge of launching a new cut-price curtainsider called the Tautliner Express, MT understands.
A company insider says the firm had been working on the concept for the last six months in a bid to compete with the likes of SDC and Schmitz, and the first prototype had been delivered to the Congleton plant around three weeks ago, he says.
The Tautliner Express would have had a bolt-together chassis made by the firm’s sister company
Concept Trailers in Northern Ireland - part of parent JMF - with a simple bolt-on body added at a new plant the company was looking to open in the Wigan/Skelmersdale area.
The source adds: “The main idea behind it was that it was much, much easier to fit together using relatively unskilled labour.” He says that labour costs at the Congleton site were one of the main reasons for Boalloy’s high prices - the new design would have halved manufacturing costs and would have been priced at around £13,500, some £3,000 lower than a regular Boalloy trailer.
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