THE HISTORY

OF

STAR TRAILERS

Homer Waller started building trailers in the early 1950's supplying custom trailers for a trucking company of which he was part-owner. By the early 1960's Homer had started developing his own designs in Hopper and Belt Conveyor trailers with new ideas and new concepts. Later in the 60's Homer's trailers started to attract attention from other trucking companies, so much attention in-fact that in 1968 he decided to separate from the trucking company all together forming "Star Manufacturing" to focus on designing and building high-quality steel trailers.

In 1970 Homer's two Sons Dave and Gene joined him in his venture. By then the trucking industry was looking for light-weight, high-strength steel trailers at a competitive price, and that's just what Star Manufacturing supplied! Homer and his Sons continued enjoying success in developing and building trailers of high quality materials and workmanship.

1977 marked the start of a new era, and it marked a new name for Homer's company- STAR TRAILERS! Trucking companies had started to look for more efficient purpose-built trailers. Homer and Star Trailers answered those calls by developing and producing new designs including: Drop Deck Hay Trailers, Walking Floor Refuse Trailers, Chain/Belt Self Un-loaders, Bottom Dumps, End Dumps, and Side Dump Trailers.

In October of 2022 Star Trailers was acquired by the Ruelas family. The Ruelas family proudly own and operate Fast Mobile Service in Grandview Washington. Fast Mobile Service, known locally as FMS, is a premier Diesel Repair Shop as well as truck and trailer parts store founded by David Ruelas in 2005. David, a Sunnyside Graduate, started FMS as a one-man operation consisting of himself and his service truck. Through many years of hard work David has grown FMS into the state-of-the-art repair shop and fully functioning parts store it is today. Find out more about David and the Ruelas family by visiting fastmobileservice.com.

As the proud new owners of Star Trailers, our mission is to continue the Waller’s Legacy and to build on the foundation they laid by building High Quality Trailers, never wavering on our standards, and by taking care of the most important part of our business, our customers and employees.