WO-05 Service category
Trailer and Chassis for Santa Ana Fleets
Trailer and chassis body work covers the sheet, posts, decking, structural members, lamp circuits and hardware that make up a commercial trailer. Scope is body, structure, lighting and coating: skin panels, uprights, crossmembers, flooring, landing gear, coupler hardware, tie down systems and corrosion control. Santa Ana fleets bring units to the Yorba Linda shop for all of it.
- Services
- 6
- Body and paint rate
- $210 per hour
- Location
- In shop, Yorba Linda
Trailers earn money by being loaded, and loading is what breaks them. A dry van that spends five years absorbing forklift strikes, dock bumps and yard hostler shunts collects bent uprights, split skin seams, loose rivet lines and soft decking long before anything looks dramatic from fifty feet away. Santa Ana distribution fleets tend to find the damage when a load shifts or a driver puts a foot through a board.
This shop treats a trailer as a structure first and a box second. Skin does not hold a trailer square, posts and rails do, and decking does not carry a pallet jack, crossmembers do. Every trailer that comes in gets walked from the nose to the rear frame with the floor sounded and the rivet lines read, because a sidewall repair over a bent upright will be back within a season.
Everything here is performed in shop at 23281 E La Palma Ave in Yorba Linda. Santa Ana operators run SR-55 north to SR-91 east and cover the seventeen miles in roughly 22 to 35 minutes depending on the hour, which is close enough that most fleets drop a trailer, take a spare, and swap back at pickup rather than idling a tractor in the yard.
Scope is deliberately narrow. This is body, structural, lighting circuit and coating work on trailers and chassis. It is not a running gear shop and it does not pretend to be one, which is exactly why fleet managers use it for the panel, floor, frame and hardware side of the fleet and keep their other vendor for the rest.
RATE Published pricing
Every trailer and chassis service, priced
Price bands, labor hours and turnaround for the whole category on one screen. Scroll the table sideways on a phone.
| Service | Price range | Labor | Turnaround | Billed to carrier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trailer Body and Skin Repair | $1,000 to $15,000 | 8 to 60 hrs | 4 to 8 business days | Yes |
| Trailer Floor and Frame Repair | $500 to $9,500 | 4 to 40 hrs | 2 to 4 weeks | Yes |
| Landing Gear and Coupler Repair | $400 to $5,500 | 2 to 22 hrs | 4 to 8 business days | Yes |
| Trailer Lighting and Wiring | $285 to $2,500 | 1 to 10 hrs | 1 to 3 business days | Fleet account |
| Tie Down and E-Track Install | $250 to $2,500 | 1 to 10 hrs | 3 to 10 business days | Fleet account |
| Corrosion Treatment and Coating | $400 to $3,500 | 2 to 14 hrs | 4 to 8 business days | Fleet account |
Bands assume the posted 2026 shop rates. Materials are calculated on every written estimate at $55 per paint hour and $5 per body hour, with 7.75 percent tax on parts and materials. Labor is not taxed. Full rate card.
IDX Service index
Open a trailer and chassis service
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Trailer Body and Skin Repair
Sectioning damaged sidewall panels, splicing bent uprights, and refastening skin to the original rivet pattern on commercial trailers.
$1,000 to $15,000
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Trailer Floor and Frame Repair
Deck board and full floor replacement, crossmember splicing, rail crack repair and structural reinforcement on commercial trailers.
$500 to $9,500
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Landing Gear and Coupler Repair
Leg, gearbox, cross shaft and foot repair on trailer landing gear plus pintle, lunette and coupler hardware replacement.
$400 to $5,500
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Trailer Lighting and Wiring
Lamp circuit diagnosis, harness replacement, nose box and socket repair, and LED conversion on commercial trailers.
$285 to $2,500
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Tie Down and E-Track Install
Rated E-track, L-track, D-ring and load bar anchor installation tied into trailer structure for real cargo securement.
$250 to $2,500
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Corrosion Treatment and Coating
Rust removal, surface profiling, zinc rich priming and undercoating on trailer frames, crossmembers and chassis structure.
$400 to $3,500
CAT Full catalog
Other trailer and chassis work performed in house
These items are handled as part of a larger scope rather than booked on their own, so they do not each carry a dedicated page.
- Sidewall panel section replacement between uprights
- Full height skin sheet replacement on sheet and post trailers
- Bonded plate panel patch and edge seal
- Upright splice above the damage zone
- Logistics post replacement and slot alignment
- Top rail straightening and section replacement
- Bottom side rail repair and section splice
- Rub rail replacement and fastener line renewal
- Corner post replacement at the rear frame
- Rear frame square up and header repair
- Roof bow replacement and re-spacing
- Roof sheet seam patch and lap seal
- Translucent roof panel replacement
- Nose panel and front wall repair
- Scuff liner band replacement
- Interior lining panel replacement
- Rivet line replacement in aluminum skin
- Structural blind fastener replacement at post to rail joints
- Buck rivet removal and reset
- Hardwood laminated oak deck board replacement
- Full deck replacement with new fastener pattern
- Apitong deck plank replacement on flatbeds
- Floor screw pattern renewal and countersink repair
- Crossmember replacement in the damaged bay
- Crossmember splice and sister repair
- Bottom flange crack stop drilling and weld repair
- Upper coupler plate inspection and weld repair
- Kingpin area gusset repair
- Slider box rail weld repair
- Landing gear leg replacement
- Landing gear gearbox replacement
- Cross shaft and connecting tube replacement
- Sand shoe and foot pad replacement
- Landing gear mounting bracket rebuild
- Crank handle and holder replacement
- Pintle hook and mounting plate replacement
- Lunette ring and drawbar eye replacement
- Ball coupler and A-frame repair on utility trailers
- Safety chain D-ring replacement and reinforcement
- Nose box junction panel replacement
- Seven conductor socket and plug replacement
- Main harness replacement and reroute through crossmembers
- LED clearance and marker lamp conversion
- Stop, turn and tail lamp replacement
- License plate lamp and bracket replacement
- Ground path repair and terminal cleanup
- Voltage drop testing on lamp circuits
- Horizontal E-track installation
- Vertical E-track and logistics track installation
- Recessed pan fitting and D-ring installation
- Weld on D-ring installation with backing plate
- Load bar and decking beam socket installation
- Stake pocket and rub rail tie down repair
- Winch track repair on flatbeds
- Media blast and profile prep on frame sections
- Zinc rich primer application on repaired steel
- Chassis undercoating and cavity treatment
- Dissimilar metal isolation at aluminum to steel joints
- Drain hole clearing and edge seal renewal
- Seam sealing at roof to sidewall joints
- Mud flap bracket and hanger repair
- Placard holder and document box installation
- Reflective conspicuity tape replacement
- Unit number and height decal replacement
FAQ Questions
Trailer and Chassis questions from fleet managers
Do I have to bring the trailer to you, or can you come to my Santa Ana yard?
The trailer comes here. All work is performed in shop at the Yorba Linda facility, because skin sectioning, crossmember welding and coating work need fixturing, extraction and a controlled space. Santa Ana yards are 17 miles out, roughly 22 to 35 minutes on SR-55 north to SR-91 east, so most fleets shuttle a unit over in the morning and keep running.
What kind of trailers do you take?
Enclosed dry vans, refrigerated vans, flatbeds, drop decks, stake and utility trailers, curtain siders and container chassis. Length is not a problem. The scope is body, structure, decking, lighting circuits and mounted hardware. Work involving running gear, air systems or wheel end components is not performed here and is referred back to the fleet maintenance vendor.
How fast can you turn a damaged sidewall around?
Most single bay skin and post repairs land in the moderate body band at 4 to 8 business days. Floor and frame work runs structural at 2 to 4 weeks because crossmember replacement, decking and refinish stack up. Lighting and tie down jobs are usually 1 to 3 business days. Parts availability moves those numbers more than shop capacity does.
Will insurance pay for trailer damage?
Skin, post, floor, frame and landing gear damage from an impact is routinely billed direct to the carrier, and appraisers are handled here as part of the file. Wear items like corrosion coating, tie down upgrades and lighting refresh are almost always fleet pay because there is no loss event behind them.
Can you work on several trailers at once so I am not down a whole week?
Yes. Multi unit work is scheduled in staggered releases so a Santa Ana fleet gets units back in waves rather than all at the end. Send a list with unit numbers and damage notes ahead of the drop and the sequence gets built around which trailers you need first.
Do you handle both aluminum and steel trailer structures?
Both. Aluminum sheet and post, bonded aluminum plate, galvanized and painted steel crossmembers, and steel main rails are all in scope. Aluminum and steel are welded to separate procedures with separate filler and separate prep, and dissimilar metal joints get isolated so the repair does not start a galvanic problem.
Next step
Get trailer and chassis scheduled
Tell us the unit, the damage and the deadline. You get a written scope and a price band back, not a sales call.
All work is performed at our Yorba Linda facility. Estimates are scheduled, not walk up.