TRUSTED FOR OVER 50 YEARS Danco Trailers, Inc. is family owned and operated, serving the agriculture industry throughout the West and beyond for over 50 years. Quality and Service have stood the test of time. We look forward to adding you to our long list of satisfied customers! It all started when... ... in my early teens, working with my father and a close friend of his, a comment was made that they wished they had learned how to weld so they would be able to repair the many things that would break on the farm. That comment gave me the desire to take up Ag Shop in High School and learn how to cut and weld. In my Sophomore year I built a small cow trailer for my father in the Ag Shop class, then in my Senior year, my brother had me build a tilt-bed trailer. While gathering parts to build the trailer I purchased an axle from a local truck yard. The owner of the yard wanted to know what I was going to use the axle for and when I told him, he asked if I would build a trailer for him. I was excited and agreed to do so. However, I had to finish it at home after I graduated, so I purchased a welder to finish the job. This man hired me to work on truck trailers, repairing and rebuilding them. I worked for this person for a few years but always wanted my own shop. Meanwhile, my brother who is 10 years older than me, was already in the trucking business and had been hauling turkeys in wooden racks. When they made a change to steel wire racks I acquired one of the old wooden turkey truck racks and I disassembled the racks to used the wood to build my first welding shop, 20'x22' in size. About 1 year later I talked my father into letting me use the old cow barn for a shop which was 48'x60'. I still utilize this barn today. In 1964 I officially started my welding business as "Dan Coelho Welding". At first, I mostly did repairs for local farmers, but I did get a job to extend 20 dump truck bodies. During my early years while helping my brother in his corn chopping business, I learned about the trucking requirements for hauli