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title: Tired of Welding Cracks in the Subframe of Your Aluminum Dump Trailer? Check out Hicks Patented, Weld-Free Subframe.
description: Hicks's patented, weld-free, trapezoidal subframe on our aluminum dump trailer is stronger and prevents costly, lengthy, repairs in this high-stress area.
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# Tired of Welding Cracks in the Subframe of Your Aluminum Dump Trailer? Check out Hicks Patented, Weld-Free Subframe.

 May 19, 2022

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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.

- 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*](https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/huck_replaces_welding) fasteners, is an extension of that.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

- Typical I or C shaped members of competitors' subframes are welded together. These subframe designs are frequently welded for repairs.
- Regular maintenance/accident damage results in costly, lengthy, and questionable repairs or perhaps an entire replacement of the subframe.

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