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Lucky’s Trailer Sales is located in South Royalton, Vt.
Not everyone turns their family dairy farm into a successful trailer sales business, but that’s exactly what Russell “Lucky” Dimmick Jr. did. In 1967, Russell Dimmick Sr. and his wife Sharon sold their construction business and purchased a new dairy farm in Randolph Center, Vt. Their son, Lucky, had expressed an interest in diversifying the family business into other areas. (L-R) are Russell Dimmick Sr., Sharon Dimmick, Tammy Dimmick and The decision was made to try their Russell “Lucky” Dimmick Jr. hand at trailer sales and Lucky’s Trailer Sales Inc. was founded in September 1984 on the family’s good experience with those first two Barrett trailers that we eventually picked up the Barrett franchise and later on we 400-acre, 200-cow dairy farm. Their first trailers were two Barrett all aluminum cattle became dealers for Wells Cargo, Trailstar, Landoll and Transcraft, to mention a few manufacturers. trailers. “We converted the equipment repair shop on our farm into “We purchased these two cattle trailers at a Yoder & Frey sale in Ohio and we started doing some trailer brokering, put- the trailer shop and there were really just three employees — ting potential trailer buyers in touch with trailer owners,” myself, my wife Sharon, and my son, Lucky,” he said. From 1984 to 1991, the company experienced strong said Russell Dimmick Sr. “I’m not sure at the time that any of us had a vision of growth to the point where being located on the family farm what this business was going to grow into. But today, cattle see LUCKY page 4 trailers are a very tiny part of our business. We had such a