Screwless Exterior Trailers

Why do we take such pleasure in producing trailers with aluminum screwless exteriors? Aesthetic pride! To illustrate, close your eyes and imagine a black trailer with screws placed 16″ apart in row after row, stacked in columns running from the rub rail to the roof line, almost like an old aluminum shed that was pelted with a load of buckshot. Now lets take that same trailer and place it outside your local race track on a sweltering July afternoon (or if you dream big on the inside of The Brickyard or Daytona), and let the warming rays of the Sun bake it for a few hours. Do you know what happens to metal? It expands, but it really doesn’t have much room to move because of all the screws, so it bubbles and pops like a junior high science experiment gone wrong. For those consumers who are looking for usability in a product, as well as one that looks good doing its job, ATC & Motiv trailers offers screwless exterior trailers, and believe me they look good! We make trailers that are 53′ long and are 13′ 5″ tall and believe it or not we cover that monster with .050 exterior aluminum fastened without any screws! How do we do it? Thanks for asking! We use two products from world renowned companies, 3M and BASF. We apply BASF’s Dega-Bond to the posts and 3M VHB tape to the seams. These products, when used in combination provide superior adhesion, while at the same time allowing the metal to “float” on those crazy days of summer and viola, what you get is a trailer that performs and the screwless exterior looks great while at the track, the lake or your driveway.
	Screwless Exterior


	Riveted Exterior