About us

East Michigan Trailers Sales is a full trailer and truck equipment dealer offering new and used trailers, van bodies and platform bodies located in Detroit, Michigan. In addition, we stock a complete line of aftermarket parts and provide repairs on all makes of trailers and van bodies. Our business started in 1945 as Pezzani & Reid Equipment Company, founded by Pete Pezzani, with extensive experience in trailer parts, and Emerson Reid, an engineer who designed specialty trailers. The company has long since been recognized as the innovator and designer of specialty trailers. The first 8-axle trailers were introduced to the Michigan market as a Pezzani & Reid Design/Specification. Since then the company has evolved into a full line trailer and truck equipment dealer serving southeastern Michigan and Northwest Ohio. Our parts and service departments have over 50 years of experience. We carry a full line of trailer parts, providing same day delivery. Our service repair facility has fifteen skilled mechanics, specializing in all major repairs for flatbed, dump and van trailers as well as van bodies. That includes trailer suspensions and alignment, brakes, frames, body repairs (roof panels, side panels, floors, doors, liftgates), electrical, oil systems, wet lines, fenders and miscellaneous fabrications. We offer the best built trailers available for every hauling need: • Rhodes aluminum and steel dump bodies and trailers • Reitnouer aluminum tandem and multi-axle flatbeds • Thru-Way multi-axle steel flatbeds & the extendable BladeMaster Turbine Blade trailer • Rogers Brothers lowboy, fixed gooseneck & tag trailers • R/S steel dump bodies • EZ Dumper Trailers & Inserts • Nose Cone brand wind deflectors We are also a proud distributor of Morgan van bodies & platform bodies and the "ROLL-TITE" sliding tarp system. We are a team who believes in striving to establish and maintain a professional, honest, and personable relationship with our customers. We will promote a comfortable business environment through exceeding consumer needs in all areas of semi-trailer sales, parts, and service. To continue to develop loyal customers, we are obligated to provide the highest quality service in order to foster the growth in developing a positive, lasting business relationship. We have been operating out of the same location since 1945, carrying forward the Pezzani & Reid tradition, at 3960 West Fort Street in Detroit between Clark Street and West Grand Blvd., just 1/2 mile south of the Ambassador Bridge (Exit 47-A on I-75). Detroit, Wayne County, Southeast Michigan, Detroit Metro Area, Southgate, Southfield, Hamtramck, Highland Park, River Rouge, Dearborn, Ecorse, Northwest Ohio, Melvindale