Keizer Refrigeration and Mid-States Utility Trailer Sales Open New Facility in Sioux City, Iowa
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July 30, 2018. Keizer Refrigeration, a distributor for Carrier Transicold, a global leader in transport refrigeration, and Mid-States Utility Trailer Sales, a dealership of Utility Manufacturing refrigerated trailers, dry vans and flatbeds, has opened a new facility at 5220 Harbor Drive, Exit 141 of Interstate 29. The new dealership building is eight miles to the south of its previous location in the 3200 block of U.S. Highway 75. As part of its relocation and expansion, the company has added seven new employees to its current staff of fifty and continues hiring service technicians for both Mid-States Utility Trailer Sales and for Keizer Refrigeration.
“We are excited to grow in Sioux City,” the President of Keizer Companies Shane Keizer said. “We are happy to be along the interstate and get more exposure. Our previous facility was very limited on space and did not allow any room for growth, so we decided to build a new place, in a better location that will offer a much better experience for our customers.”
The new 55,000-square-foot facility at 5220 Harbor Drive includes a two-floor office area for trailer sales, showroom for truckers to purchase truck and trailer parts, drivers’ waiting room and a service center with 16 service bays and a new drive-through wash station. The service department is currently running a day shift, with the addition of extended hours into the evening in the near future. The dealership’s fleet of five fully equipped service trucks are ready to provide emergency road service and on-site repair.
The lot can accommodate 300 trailers and showcases new and used Utility 3000R® reefers, 4000D-X Composite® dry vans, 4000AE™ Combo flatbeds as well as Maurer, East and Landoll trailers. The project has doubled the company’s service and parts area and the new location’s proximity to the new Bridgeport West Industrial Park is expected to add new business. Shane said, “We will be excited to show off our brand new facility at our Grand Opening which will take place later this year.”
About Keizer Refrigeration and Mid-States Utility Trailer Sales
Keizer Refrigeration started in 1976 when Jim and Jackie Keizer, the parents of current owners Shane Keizer and Stacy Bricker, began operating on refrigeration units at truck stops and businesses out of the back of their pickup truck. Jim and Jackie then purchased Mid-States Utility Trailer Sales in 2001. The company quickly grew and are now one of the largest Utility Manufacturing semi-trailer dealerships in the United States, offering a wide range of new and used refrigerated trailers, dry vans and flatbeds to support the U.S. transportation industry which moves over 11 billion tons of freight annually and employs over 3.5 million truck drivers. Mid-States Utility Trailer Sales also provide heavy equipment servicing and aftermarket parts, to keep transportation companies on the road delivering their freight. For more information on Keizer Companies visit www.midstatesutility.com or call (800) 369-2653.
About Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company
Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company is America’s oldest privately owned, family-operated trailer manufacturer. Founded in 1914, the company designs and manufactures refrigerated vans, dry freight vans, flatbeds, Tautliner® curtainsided trailers, and aerodynamic side skirts. Utility currently operates five trailer manufacturing facilities across the United States. Utility’s 3000R® and the 3000R® multi-temp refrigerated trailers are manufactured at the Marion, Virginia, and Clearfield, Utah, plants. The 4000D-X Composite® series and 4000D® dry vans are manufactured at the Glade Spring, Virginia and Paragould, Arkansas, plants. The 4000AE™, 4000S®, and drop deck flatbeds as well as the Tautliner® are all manufactured at the Enterprise, Alabama, facility. Utility also has an extensive independent dealer network with over 100 locations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America. Visit www.utilitytrailer.com for more information.
About Carrier Transicold
Carrier Transicold helps improve transport and shipping of temperature-controlled cargoes with a complete line of equipment and services for refrigerated transport and cold chain visibility. For more than 45 years, Carrier Transicold has been an industry leader, providing customers around the world with advanced, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable container refrigeration systems and generator sets, direct-drive and diesel truck units, and trailer refrigeration systems. Carrier Transicold is a part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp., a leading provider to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide. For more information, visit www.transicold.carrier.com.