Direct Pricing is the Key to our Business Model
We set up TrailerDecking.com on the premise that our customers didn't want to pay
any unnecessary mark-ups to brokers and wholesalers who don't add value to the transaction.
We buy all our material directly from the manufacturers overseas, we inspect it ourselves, and
we don't use brokers or wholesalers to get the job done.
We have our own offices in Indonesia and in Brazil. All of our logistics are handled from the
point of origin and we work hard to get our customers the best deals available in terms of
quality, lengths, and transportation costs.
Meet the TrailerDecking.com Team
Our business unit is part of Nova USA Wood Products, a international leader in tropical
hardwood decking and flooring, as well as industrial products. Steve Getsiv
started TrailerDecking.com in 2009 with help from an old friend, John Buchanan.
John was
helpful in establishing direct contacts in Malaysia due to his long career in the industry including
working as a logger and surveyor on Vancouver Island and in the
northern California Redwood region from 1954 until 1957. In 1957, John was stationed in Korea
for a three year period with the US Army Corps of Engineers. He obtained a degree in forestry
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961 and became a logging engineer in a variety
of countries, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia, and Taiwan.
It was during this time that John had his first involvement with Apitong while selectively
logging piling on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. He then went on to manage a sawmill
and its logging operations for seven years before moving into the log export field in 1978 in the
Pacific Northwest and Alaska regions. From 1982 to 2010, John specialized in importing and distributing
Apitong trailer decking materials.
John passed away in October 2010. He was a great inspiration to us and helped teach us a great deal
about the hardwood trailer business. We will miss him greatly.
Getsiv Family History in Truck Trailer Flooring
In 1958, Steve's dad, Ted Getsiv, graduated from Syracuse University in Wood Engineering and went to work
for Weyerhaeuser in Longview, Washington. He helped build one of the first finger-joint edge-glue
factories in the US. One of the main products they made was Vertical Grain Douglas Fir Truck Trailer
Flooring. VG Fir was very popular in the 1960's and his dad spent many years manufacturing and selling
truck trailer flooring products. After a stint at Weyerhaeuser, he helped start General Laminating and
Manufacturing, manufacturers of the not-so-famous GLaM-Deck. General Laminating became Pacific Laminating
which was then purchased by Brazier Forest Industries. They also made K-Deck which was a finger-jointed and
edge-glued trailer flooring products with alternating 1-1/2" wide strips of Apitong / Kapur
and Douglas Fir VG.
Steve joined the truck trailer wood flooring manufacturing business in 1987 and helped run the company
until 1991 when they had no choice but to shut down due to depressed trailer flooring prices, expensive raw
material, and competition from foreign suppliers. After 4 years in the manufacturing business, Steve went to
work from the Holm family at Oregon-Canadian Forest Products in North Plains, Oregon. Within a short
period of time, I was trading tropical hardwood lumber products, specializing in truck trailer products
again, as well as exterior decking and interior flooring.
After 14 years at Oregon-Canadian, Steve was ready
to build up own company and partnered up with his best supplier in Brazil, Nova Forest Products SA.
We started Nova USA Wood Products in 2005 and have built an outstanding international trading company,
specializing in wholesale flooring, decking and industrial products. See our main web site for details at
www.novausawood.com.
There is No Substitute for Expert Experience - Bill Christou
With over 20 years of experience trading in tropical hardwoods and ten of those years spent
living in Surabaya, Indonesia, Bill Christou joined the Nova USA Wood Products team as a full
partner in May 2010.
Bill’s focus on the manufacture of Apitong products for the trailer industry is second to none
and he brings a wealth of experience to the TrailerDecking.com team.
Bill now coordinates all of our purchasing and personally handles all the larger national accounts
and many of our OEM customers.
Bill is fluent in the Indonesian and Malay language of Bahasa, and manages our office in Surabaya
which handles logistics, purchasing and grading for all products from Southeast Asia.
And More Experience - Drew Blake
Drew has been calling on the Truck Trailer and Truck Body OEM's and aftermarket distributors for the past
thirty years selling them wood products, aluminum extrusions, roll formed steel, plastic mud flaps and
rubber products. He has sold imported floors and Apitong for Nelson International for 7 years and then
Rockland Wood Products for 3 years. He's a graduate of Florida State University with a degree
in marketing. Drew has been based in the Atlanta area for over thirty years and handles most of our business in
the Southeast U.S.
Welcome to the Newest Member of the Team - Stephen Purdy
Handling all of our on-line sales, domestic side logistics and order processing, Stephen Purdy is the newest
member of the TrailerDecking.com team. He has enjoyed his time as a member of the TrailerDecking.com team and looks
forward to continuing to learn and serve the trucking industry. Stephen is a graduate of the University of Oregon
with a degree in business administration. He is an avid sports fan with allegiances to Ducks football, the
Portland Trail Blazers, Green Bay Packers, and Boston Red Sox.
Our Web Site and Business Philosophy
We created this web site so that we can work with our truck trailer customers as directly as possible. We believe in sharing
as much information as possible about our products: where they come from, how they are made, the scientific
properties of each and every wood species we sell, technical drawings and more.
Our pricing philosophy is simple: we import directly or we work with key trading partners who import and hold stocks
for us. We buy as competitively as possible, based on our years of experience,
and we pass the savings on to you.
Any feedback you can offer will no doubt help us improve the web site and our business.
