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Your trailer’s subframe is a high-load, high-stress area. It is a common problem area for dump trailers. Ask yourself: How often am I welding cracks? How much downtime and cost on questionable maintenance am I spending? Consider Hicks's patented, weld-free subframe design.
Hicks weld-free subframe.
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Tired of welding cracks? Glen Hicks recognized as far back as the 1950s that bolting would be far superior to welding. Hicks’s patented, weld-free trailer subframe design, using Huck fasteners, is an extension of that.
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Hicks’s trailer subframe is built with weld-free, modular, trapezoidal members. These components are interchangeable and replaceable for quick, easy repairs to a like-new state.
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Trapezoidal members provide optimal lateral and longitudinal strength. Hicks's subframe supports the body of the trailer in all directions; when you turn a corner, hit the brakes, or raise your trailer.
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Extensive finite element analyses (FEAs) and road testing have proven Hicks’s subframe to be a durable component in this high-stress area.
Competitors' subframe.
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Typical I or C shaped members of competitors' subframes are welded together. These subframe designs are frequently welded for repairs.
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Regular maintenance/accident damage results in costly, lengthy, and questionable repairs or perhaps an entire replacement of the subframe.
