Chattanooga-based TEL has broken ground on a 48-acre campus in Palmer, Texas, planned as the company's biggest facility yet, with room for more than 1,500 trucks and trailers on a site fronting Interstate 45.
TEL, which leases, sells and remarkets commercial trucks and trailers, says the campus is set to open in the first quarter of 2028 with a reconditioning center and a retail supercenter, and that the project will bring more than 40 skilled jobs to Palmer, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
Shop Floor and Sales Floor
The planned campus pairs a large repair operation with a much smaller retail room. A 60,000-square-foot reconditioning center is designed for repairing and refurbishing trucks and trailers. A separate retail supercenter, with 6,000 square feet of interior space, is dedicated to used truck and trailer buyers, Monitor Daily reported.
That is the working layout: most of the built space goes to putting equipment back in service, while the showroom is aimed at buyers on the used side of the market. TEL serves owner-operators, fleets and transportation businesses.
An I-45 Lot Aimed at Dallas-Fort Worth
Palmer is the company's Southwest bet, and the address is the point. The site has Interstate 45 frontage, and TEL says proximity to Dallas and Fort Worth will give ready access to customers in Texas, the Southwest and nearby states.
Forty-eight acres and capacity for more than 1,500 trucks and trailers would make this TEL's largest facility to date. The company has set the opening for the first quarter of 2028, when both the reconditioning center and the retail supercenter are planned to be in place.
More Sites, Not Just This One
President and CEO Jud Alexander cast Palmer as one stop in a longer build-out. "This is part of a broader national expansion, and we plan to add more locations in strategic geographies in the years ahead," he said.
For Palmer, the nearer piece is local: more than 40 skilled jobs tied to a campus built to store, refurbish and resell commercial trucks and trailers on an I-45 frontage lot within reach of Dallas-Fort Worth.
