“Do what you say and don’t rip them off.”
that I just shut the trucking business down and ended up with the
trailer end of it.”
It’s an instruction that seems easy to implement into any business, yet
there’s only a select few dealerships around the country that seem
to embody the mindset behind it. Double O Trailer Service’s Allen
Oglesbee has found a way to perfect it, though, and he’s been doing
it for over forty-five years. Now, Double O Trailer Service is still a two-bay shop, but they’re
100-foot bays. It also sells parts, has a dedicated parts room and
has several thousand dollars’ worth of inventory in trailers sitting
outside. Suffice it to say, the company has grown a little.
Fresh out of high school and looking for a job, a young Oglesbee
found himself working at Curtsinger Trailers. It was an employment
opportunity he enjoyed for over twenty years. When the company
closed at the turn of the century, Oglesbee knew the trailer industry
wasn’t done with him quite yet. The shop is in small-town Paris, Kentucky, a city of just under 10,000
people. That hasn’t stopped Double O Trailer Service from amassing
a following, though. Every year, people from all corners of the United
States drive to Kentucky just to have their trailers serviced at the
shop.
In 2002, he opened Double O Trucking, a small, two-bay shop at his
own house. His focus may have been on trucks to start with, but it
didn’t take long for the trailer industry to creep its way back into his
business and, eventually, force a name change. “We’ve got customers from Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Wyoming,
Montana and more. We get customers from all around the United
States that bring their stuff here.”
“I had five trucks of my own and I would do a few trailers when
people would bring them to me,” Oglesbee says. “But it got so busy
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So, what would cause someone to drive up to twenty-four hours just
to have their trailer serviced at Double O Trailers?
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