ABOUT TRAILER RECYCLING SERVICES
We Know Recycling. We’re in the Service Business.
TRS comes from decades of experience in recycling, environmental management, logistics and the businesses built around them.
But that experience led to a simple conclusion:
Once a company is done with an asset, its people shouldn’t have to spend more time on it.
They shouldn’t have to find the buyer, coordinate the transportation, manage the processor, chase the paperwork or wonder what happened after the equipment left.
TRS was built to take that whole problem on.
Today, some of the largest fleets and companies in the world trust TRS to get retired assets out of their operations and off their teams’ plates.
Big Enough for Enterprise Fleets. Personal Enough to Pick Up the Phone.
TRS is on track to handle more than 10,000 assets this year, from a single piece of equipment to ongoing programs spanning multiple locations.
The scale can change dramatically. The service standard doesn’t.
A customer with one trailer gets the same clear answer and follow-through as a company with hundreds of assets moving across a network. The terminal manager coordinating a pickup matters just as much to the process as the executive responsible for the fleet.
That's how TRS operates.
Because when retired equipment is occupying valuable real estate and pulling people away from their work, the last thing the client needs is another vendor to manage.
10,000+ ASSETS PROJECTED THIS YEAR
FORTUNE 100 FLEET EXPERIENCE
INTERNATIONAL PICKUP & DISPOSITION
DETROIT + RICHMOND FACILITIES
100+ YEARS OF COLLECTIVE TEAM EXPERIENCE
No Excuses
TRS leadership brings more than 30 years of industry experience, and the team brings more than a century of experience collectively.
That depth matters because asset disposition isn't simple. Different equipment, different locations and different client requirements can mean different transportation, processing, title, documentation and disposition needs.
TRS customers don’t need to become experts in all of that.
They need a partner that already is.
Expertise alone isn’t enough. Our team is responsive, straightforward and easy to work with, from the first call to the final documentation.
"We don’t make excuses. We just perform."
American Company. Veteran Talent.
TRS is an American company, and hiring military veterans is a standing practice.
The discipline, reliability and follow-through veterans bring fit naturally with the way TRS works: understand the assignment, take responsibility for it, and finish the job.
Mathew Appelget
Owner, Trailer Recycling Services
Mathew Appelget has been around recycling for most of his life. He started working in his father’s North Carolina recycling operation when he was 12. One of his early after-school jobs was recycling those plastic L’eggs hosiery “eggs” you might remember. By 22, after years spent working inside recycling plants and finding ways to make them run better, he was hired to manage a facility handling a major Procter & Gamble recycling contract.
Over the next three decades, Mathew’s work expanded into recycling, waste management, landfill and transfer-station operations, logistics and other service businesses. One of his companies that served major government facilities in Washington, D.C., including the Pentagon, White House, Department of Defense and naval bases was sold to Waste Management.
Mathew found TRS's niche, connecting the disconnect between organizations that wanted assets gone as fast as possible and those that would accept the assets but couldn't or wouldn't own the entire process of coordinating auction companies, transportation and everything that followed.
That simple idea grew into TRS’s model today: one accountable partner that takes ownership of the process, so the customer regains valuable operational space and real estate.
All Over the Map. Still One Call.
TRS operates through facilities in Detroit and Richmond, backed by a broader network of yards, processors and partners that gives us the reach to serve fleets across the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii), Canada (all provinces) and international markets.
And when timing matters, our network moves. A top-five LTL carrier needed 110 trailers removed from a California terminal within 14 days. TRS cleared them in three. International reach. One accountable relationship.
Tell Us What You’re Done With
One asset. A yard full. Equipment across multiple locations.
Tell us what needs to move and what needs to happen to it.
TRS will take it from there.