About Atlantic Trailer Leasing: “You’ll like the way we do business!”.
Based in southern New Jersey near Philadelphia, Atlantic Trailer Leasing is the largest single-location provider of storage trailers and ground-level storage containers in the tristate area, providing equipment and support services throughout New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and northern Maryland.
Atlantic Trailer Leasing offers a fleet of about 1,600 trailers in a wide variety of lengths, heights, and configurations. Additionally, Atlantic inventories about 500 ground-level storage containers, immediately available for rent, purchase, or custom modification.
It is the people of Atlantic that make your rental or repair experience a positive one. “You’ll like the way we do business!”.
Atlantic Trailer Leasing Company History
1949 – John Giordano founds Industrial Auto Body and Trailer Co. on 28th Street in south Philadelphia. Industrial not only repaired trailers, but built trailers from the ground up.
1967 – A customer asked if he could rent a trailer while his was being repaired. Two months later, Industrial Auto Body and Trailer Co. had its first three trailers available for rent. John Giordano’s oldest son, Frank, takes over the fledgling rental division. Frank is 17 at this time and enrolled as a freshman at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
1972 – Frank graduates from Rutgers with 800 trailers on rent. Over the next 15 years, Frank built the company into a national entity consisting of 22 branches and 10,000 trailers.
1987 – Opportunity knocks, and Frank sells all branches except for Vincentown, New Jersey, a 35-acre facility with a large repair shop and a 1200 trailer inventory.
1998 – The company is renamed Atlantic Trailer Leasing Corp.
2000 – Atlantic Trailer Leasing purchases its first group of ground-level storage containers.
2005- Atlantic Trailer begins container modification. Initial jobs called for installing roll-up doors and windows, and for converting containers into field offices, animal shelters, portable job shops and more.
2011 – Atlantic launches a logistics division, providing semi-trailers and CDL drivers to customers looking to sub-contract their transportation departments or needing assistance with a project, such as moving from one warehouse to another.
2018- Atlantic continues to grow, now operating a fleet of 25 tractors and straight trucks, 6 fully equipped service vans, and employing over 65 people.
2024- Atlantic celebrates its 75th year in the trailer business. Concurrently, the Giordano family announces that Atlantic will transition into an employee-owned company.
