William F. Artrip Jr. Trailer Sales And Service

Artrip trailers is a family owned and operated business in the northern part of the beautiful SHENANDOAH VALLEY. We are just off interstate 81, Exit 313, on FRONT ROYAL PIKE (Rt 522 south, 3 miles on the right). We have been at the same location selling new and used horse and livestock trailers for over 60 years. My father, W. F. ARTRIP Jr. (Buddie), a very respected auctioneer – horse & cattle dealer up and down the east coast started the business in the early to mid 60s. I joined him in the business in the early 70s while still attending high school. In the mid 70s we went full bore into trailers. I would go to the manufactures and pick up the trailers and dad was the main salesman while I was on the road. We also had a network of other dealers in different states that we supplied trailers to. I would deliver them to their locations on one of our trucks that we designed and had built to haul them on. I was also a salesman and did all of the service on the trailers that we sold. I still do to this today. I graduated from JAMES WOOD HIGH SCHOOL in 1976. Shortly after that I started dating a lovely gal named LEIGH ANN. She was a 1981 graduate of JOHN HANDLY HIGH SCHOOL, a 1983 graduate of LORD FAIRFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE and was working for a local veterinary. We were married in 1984 and she is my right hand in the business. She does most of the paper work along with helping me work on the trailers and she is also a licensed salesman. We have two sons. William (Will) who graduated from MILLBROOK HIGH SCHOOL and MOUNTAIN VISTA GOVERNORS SCHOOL at LORD FAIRFAX COLLEGE in 2010 and graduated from the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA in 2014 and Walter Lee who graduated from MILLBROOK HIGH SCHOOL in 2014 also. Both have helped in the business many times.