Founded in Quincy, Illinois, in 1848 as the Knapheide Wagon Company, the sixth-generation family-led business now manufactures truck bodies and van equipment and provides commercial-vehicle upfitting and installation. Its history spans wagon building and the early automobile era, and it describes itself as a long-established truck-body manufacturer with manufacturing and installation capabilities.
Fourward UpfittingFourward Upfitting brings together established truck-equipment businesses, including family and multigenerational companies with roots reaching back to 1899. The group draws on more than 270 years of combined leadership experience to create customized work vehicles for commercial fleets, with coordinated support across multiple installation locations.COLUMBUS, OH
New Harrisburg Truck Body CompanyWith roots reaching back more than 80 years, New Harrisburg Truck Body Company designs and installs truck and van bodies while repairing and painting commercial vehicles for Central Pennsylvania fleets. Family-owned and operated in Mechanicsburg since 1985, the company is especially known for hand-built casket bodies, a specialty it developed into a distinctive line of single-operator delivery bodies. Its operation now spans 25,000 square feet in three buildings, alongside mobile repair service and a 12,000-square-foot service and paint center.MECHANICSBURG, PA
Swab Wagon CompanyFounded by blacksmith Jonas Swab in Elizabethville in 1868, Swab Wagon Company makes custom truck bodies and mobile fire equipment, continuing a family-owned manufacturing operation described as America’s oldest continuously operated manufacturer of mobile fire equipment. Its work has evolved from wagons and early truck bodies to custom emergency, utility, and animal-transport vehicles, and it also restores and refurbishes fire apparatus.ELIZABETHVILLE, PA