Howard Porter is an Australian industrial company manufacturing semi-trailers and truck bodies.
After three generations of Porter family ownership, it was sold in the 1990s to overseas interests.
[1][2][3][4] From the 1950s until the 1990s, Howard Porter bodied buses, including many for the Metropolitan Transport Trust and its successor Transperth, and the Western Australian Government Railways and its successor Westrail.
[5] In 2006 rival semi trailer manufacturing business SFM Engineering was purchased.
[6][7] In 2012 a subsidiary trading as Global Trailer Solutions was established in Asia.