Longtime Great Dane CEO Bill Crown announced he will step down effective Jan. 1. Dean Engelage, Great Dane’s president, will succeed Crown. 

Atlantic Great Dane announced Gene Masteller acquired the company after serving there for more than 30 years, most recently as president.

Great Dane announced its FleetPulse telematics platform is now standard on its new dry and refrigerated trailers, including an integrated controller area network harness to prepare equipment for future smart technology adoption.

Great Dane announced it launched FleetPulseGO, a low-cost GPS-only solution for pre-owned trailers.

Great Dane announced Velocity Vehicle Group is now a full-service Great Dane dealer.

ATLANTA — Great Dane has introduced FleetPulse, its new smart trailer telematics system that is the result of a three-year project. It is available now and intended to begin to prepare a foundation for trailers in the emerging world of electrification, autonomy and smart distribution centers.

Charles Fetz, a former vice president of design and development at Great Dane whose efforts led to several product innovations at the trailer maker, died unexpectedly at home Oct. 25. He was 60.

Great Dane announced a partnership with Decisiv, which develops service relationship management cloud-based technology, to improve how the trailer maker’s nationwide service, repair and maintenance network communicates and collaborates.

Trailer maker Great Dane has relocated its Atlanta facility to a site that boasts an expanded parts showroom and more generous stock yard, according to a company release.