NEW BUSINESS: QUALITY TRAILER TO EXPAND

Quality Trailer Sales Inc., a full-service truck-trailer sales and parts operation, has purchased property on the Interstate 55 East Outer Road Access, across from the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.

The company, headquartered at Milan, Ill., has plans to build an office, warehouse and sales lot on the 3.37-acre Cape Girardeau site. The operation will be the seventh nationally and second in Missouri for Quality Trailer Sales, according to Dale F. Mooty, president of the company.

Other operations are in Wright City, Mo.; Milan, Morton and Chicago in Illinois; and Des Moines and Cedar Rapids in Iowa.

The company handles a full line of Wabash National, East MAC, Tremcar and Alumatech lines of truck trailers and related accessories and parts.

The property was purchased from Seven Thirty Inc., with Tom Kelsey, broker for Lorimont Place Ltd., handling the transaction.

Kelsey said that about 25 acres remained available in the commercial and industrial tract being developed by the Seven Thirty Corp.