MENDOZA TRANSPORTATION

ROUGH TERRAIN REQUIRES FLEXIBILITY

Jubentino Mendoza bought his first Trinity in 2008 after his previous trailer failed to withstand the harsh roads in the Texas Panhandle.

So Mendoza decided to give a Trinity belt trailers a try.

Problem solved.

“We go into farms and ranches where the roads aren’t the best,” Mendoza said. “Sometimes, we have to go through a ditch. The Trinity trailer will go right through it and bend and twist. We get back on the road and it’s straight again.”

For that, Mendoza can thank Trinity’s unrivaled flexibility. Trinity craftsmen build stainless steel belt trailers with a frameless bridge design, cutting weight and allowing the metal to flex without breaking.

As a result, Trinity EAGLE BRIDGE trailers can flex up to 18 degrees on each side – totaling an industry-best 36 degrees of flex – that would be too much for heavier and more rigid trailers.

[Trinity's lightweight trailers] allow me to carry more of a payload. Customers pay us by the tonnage. The more tonnage, the better paycheck we get.”

— Jubentino Mendoza, Owner, Mendoza Transportation 

 

VERSATILITY BRINGS OPPORTUNITY

The cattle industry is big business in Texas. But so is dairy, poultry and agriculture, meaning tons upon tons of feed, fertilizer, commodities and manure need hauling.

This diversity in the economy spells a big opportunity for transportation companies with the ability to work across many markets. But doing so requires either taking on the expense and hassle of buying and maintaining several different types of rigs, or finding a trailer versatile enough to handle it all.

For Mendoza Transportation, Trinity’s industry-leading design features do the job.

For starters, the 48- or 61-inch wide chain and flap conveyors are perfect for cattle feed. Anything from chopped hay to silage to wet feed to loose grains to rolled oats unload quickly and easily. And with a stainless steel bed, even acidic wet feed can be hauled without damaging the trailer.

HIGHLIGHTS

RELIABILITY THAT DRIVES GROWTH

As the owner of Mendoza Transportation, he needed the self-unloading belt trailer to deliver cattle feed and silage to customers up to 200 miles away from the company headquarters in Dumas. But Mendoza’s first trailer was always popping rivets or cracking its plastic liner, costing the small business owner valuable loads and risking becoming known as the guy who couldn’t deliver on time.

Less than a decade later, Mendoza now runs 10 Trinity trailers. Their reliability has helped Mendoza Transportation grow, he said.

“I call and get a valve or a part here or there, but the trailers are fine,” he said. “For my operation, there’s not anything I would change on those trailers to better serve my needs.”