Manufacturer: WABASH
Model: Plate Van
Location: Elkton, MD
Stock #: 038488
Status: Road/Rental
Year: 2008
Length: 53 ft.
Width: 102 in.
Suspension: SPRING
Sitting just off I-95 on East Old Philadelphia Road, Hale Trailer’s Elkton branch is a working base for fleets that haul bulk material with open top moving floors in and out of Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, and the Eastern Shore.
From this crossroads at the Maryland–Delaware–Pennsylvania border, the Elkton team supports municipal, industrial, agricultural, and private carriers feeding landfills, transfer stations, recycling facilities, mills, and plants across the Mid-Atlantic. Aberdeen, Middletown, Oxford, Newark, and Wilmington are regular names on the paperwork, not distant dots on a map.
If your week is full of soft transfer station pads, low building doors, tight scales, and wet coastal weather that likes to find weak spots in equipment, the Elkton crew knows exactly what you are dealing with.
Tell us what you are hauling, where it has to dump, and how long the lane runs. We will line up an open top moving floor and a deal structure that matches your routes instead of a generic spec sheet.
When open top moving floors are doing the heavy lifting for your routes, it pays to own the capacity. Rentals cover spikes; steady landfill, transfer, or demo work out of Elkton calls for trailers with your name on the paperwork.
At Hale Trailer in Elkton, you can sit down with the sales team and sort through:
At Hale Trailer Elkton, we’re here to match your needs to the open floor trailers available across our network.
From there, they match you with open top moving floors that fit your routes, protect your drivers, and build long-term value so you are not stuck living in rental mode forever.
Work out of Elkton doesn’t run on cruise control. Some weeks it’s steady landfill and transfer station loads, then a demo project in Wilmington hits, a plant in Baltimore shuts down for cleaning, or a storm pushes tree and debris work to the top of the board. Owning enough open top moving floors for every peak week can tie up a lot of cash—and leave investments collecting dust when the runs stabilize.
Get all the backup you need, only when you actually need it, with Hale Trailer’s rental and leasing. You get the moving floor capacity you need for the work at hand, without committing to long-term ownership until it makes sense.
Fleets around Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania lean on Elkton rentals when they:
How Elkton structures moving floor deals:
End result: your moving floor count rises and falls with your real workload in the Mid-Atlantic — not with a worst-case guess from last year.
If your trucks live on I-95, US-40, and the two-lane maze between landfills, mills, and transfer stations, you don’t just need “a dealer.” You need a yard that sits in the middle of your lanes and a crew that understands how bulk and waste really move around the Chesapeake. That’s what Elkton gives you.
The Elkton yard sits just off the Maryland–Delaware line on the same routes you already run to Baltimore, Wilmington, Newark, and Philadelphia. Dropping a trailer for service, grabbing a rental, or picking up an extra moving floor can happen on the way to a load, not as a half-day detour. Less deadhead, less wasted driver time.
Elkton-based tractors are rarely single-purpose. The same fifth wheel sees MSW, C&D, recyclables, grain, poultry litter, mulch, chips, and industrial residuals. The Elkton team deals with that mix every day and will tell you honestly when an open top moving floor is the right answer—and when another trailer type will make you more money and fewer headaches.
Whether you’re renting a few moving floors for a project, locking in leases for core landfill lanes, or adding owned equipment to the fleet, it all runs through the same Elkton crew. The shop, the parts counter, and the sales office work together, so the trailers you depend on are supported from first rental to final trade. No handoffs, no runaround.
When storms, new municipal awards, or plant outages soak up every moving floor on your board, Elkton can pull in additional open top units from across Hale’s network. You get the responsiveness of a local branch with the backup of a much larger fleet—so a spike in work doesn’t turn into a scramble for equipment.
The way Elkton handles open top moving floor work lines up with how the team treats every customer who rolls into the yard: quick help, honest answers, and a focus on getting you back on the road.
“Excellent place to come for trailer repairs. George and Scott are very knowledgeable.” —James Performance Freight
“Excellent products. Prices are good to excellent depends on what you buy. Service people are beyond excellent. Extremely helpful and always has a nice word to say to you. Strongly recommend this place to anyone.” —Nancy H.
“Very friendly. Extremely nice trailers. Will not go anywhere else.” —Ed E.
These are the same people and departments you will work with when you need an open top moving floor on short notice.
If your trucks are bouncing between Elkton, Baltimore, Wilmington, Newark, and Philly, an open top moving floor is there to solve specific problems, not just add another trailer style to the yard. Here’s where they pull their weight for Mid-Atlantic fleets:
If even two or three of these look like your daily dispatch board, open top moving floors can tighten your cycle times and make tough sites easier on your drivers.
Open top moving floors only make money when they’re turning loads. When a floor hangs up, a valve leaks, or a door won’t seal, the Elkton shop and parts counter are here to get that trailer back in the line as fast as possible.
In the Elkton shop, the team tackles:
For bigger jobs, Elkton can lean on the broader Hale network for full floor rebuilds, wet line work, and specialty projects, so you get more years out of the trailers you already own.
At the parts counter, you’ll find:
If a moving floor needs bay time and you still have loads booked, Elkton can pair repair work with a short-term rental so your trucks keep moving while that trailer is down.
Open top moving floors keep trash moving, demo sites cleared, and mills and plants supplied. You bring the lanes, the customers, and the deadlines; Elkton brings the trailers, support, and straight talk to back it all up. Together, you get a setup that fits the way you actually run in Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
Whether you need a couple of rentals for a tight project, a lease block for core landfill or transfer work, or you’re ready to fold more owned trailers into the fleet, the Elkton crew will walk you through the options, talk honestly about what does and doesn’t fit, and help you keep those units earning. No drama. No pressure. Just equipment and support that match your board.
If you want one number to call for open top moving floor trailers, service, and parts on the I-95 corridor, Hale Trailer Elkton is it.
If your lost time is unload logistics (low overheads, soft pads, “no tipping,” tight transfer floors, long reset), moving floors usually win. If your constraint is haul distance or scale congestion, the advantage is smaller.
In March of 2022, Hale Trailer purchased the operating assets of Commonwealth Trailer Rentals. We look forward to continuing to serve you as always, now with a greater geographical footprint, larger inventory, and expanded product offerings for sale and rent.