Long haul truck dealerships begins work in Fort Lupton

Intermountain Trailers breaks ground on new dealership

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Fort Lupton city and business o cials helped kick o work on a 37,000-square-foot facility and welcomed a tractor-trailer dealership to town May 5.

e City of Fort Lupton o cials welcomed Intermountain Trailers with a groundbreaking ceremony. Construction Concepts will build the 37,000 square feet facility on 28 acres at County Road 8 and Rollie Avenue.

“Fort Lupton was very accepting of the business, which has been great and not too far out. It’s been great working with the city, and excited to get the project underway, said Travis Johnson, owner of Intermountain Trailers.

Intermountain Trailers’ primary business is similar to a car dealership, but features is a semi-truck trailer.

e company sells new and used semi-truck trailers, xes and repairs them, and sells parts for heavy-duty trucks and trailers.

“We are currently in Commerce City, the group that owns our prop- erty sold the property to a neighboring business. So, it forced us to go out onto the market and nd something new,” Johnson said. “We loved coming up into the Fort Lupton market.”

Johnson said Intermountain Trailers is a legacy company, but it has been in business in its current conguration since 2017.

“We had several ownership changes and have been around since 1996 in the Salt Lake market,” Johnson said. “In 2017, we acquired Wabash

National Assets here in Denver, took on our employee base here – which has been our best asset – and went to work.”

Construction Concepts, which is building the Intermountain Trailers facility, founded in 1990, has mainly worked as a residential builder.

“It’s now changed ownership; our company president worked for the company before he bought it and took it over about two years ago,” said Joel Hardy, preconstruction manager