Creekside Welding

Creekside Welding shed trailers and gazebo trailers

Creekside Welding builds trailers for one job the shed industry knows well: moving finished buildings. The shop is in Bedford, Pennsylvania, and its website dates the company's custom trailer work to 1999. It is led by James Peight and his son, and its trailers are sold under the Creekside Shed Trailers name. The Creekside Welding website sums up the approach: "Our #1 Goal is to help create solutions for the Shed Hauling Industry no matter what it is."

Designed by someone who hauled sheds

James started in the industry behind the wheel, not in the shop. On the Shed Geek Podcast he explained that he got his license at 18 and started hauling sheds, and that he hauled for seven or eight years through the mid 1990s, part time at first and full time in the summers. The man he hauled for bought his first trailer out of Lancaster, then started building shed trailers himself. That is where Creekside Welding started. According to James, that same builder came up with the side shift that most shed trailers carry today.

The business changed hands a few times before James bought it in 2002. He started out alone in a 30-by-40 shop, building nine or ten trailers a year while also answering the phone, paying the bills and keeping the books. His son Marcus later came back into the business, and the company built a bigger shop.

That hauling background is the point. As James put it, "I know what it's like to haul sheds, I know exactly what it's like and also know what the trailer needs to do to be able to do the job." Creekside says its designs are "built on real-world insights, ensuring durability and ease of use," and James takes a customer's design and fabricates the trailer to their specs.

What Creekside builds

• Shed trailers. Mobile units designed to transport and deploy sheds and storage structures, in single-axle, tri-axle and gooseneck configurations.
• Tilted single frame trailers. Specialized units for moving gazebos and outdoor shelter structures.
• Wireless controls. Upgrades that replace manual or corded controls with wire-free operation from anywhere around the rig, inside or outside the truck.
• The Shed Boss. A machine for moving sheds around a lot, which James says he first built around 2012. It runs on the same 13-horsepower Honda electric-start engine used on his shed trailers.
• Local repair. Repair services for the farming community around Bedford.

How James thinks about a trailer

Haulers ask for the same things over and over: longer, lighter and stronger. James told the podcast that one of the things that matters most to him is that a trailer is easy to work on. After seeing other builders' trailers come through the shop for repair, he designs with the next repair in mind. He also described building a steering tongue and leveling axles for a customer who wanted both, which led to the design Creekside builds now.

The Shed Boss came out of the same thinking. Lot operators have hand-sized movers at one end of the market and full-size machines like the Mule at the other. James built the Shed Boss for the space in between, for businesses that need to move buildings around a lot but do not want to buy a Mule just for that. He is also clear that it will not do everything a Mule can. Trailers still get priority in the shop, so Shed Boss builds fit in between trailer work.

What customers say

James still answers the phone himself, and he told the podcast that his trailer customers have his cell number. The reviews on Creekside's own site come from repeat buyers. One reads, "James is excellent for build quality and 2nd to none with customer service! We are using our 2nd trailer he built, and have another on order." Another customer says they have bought multiple Creekside trailers through the years and plan to order another.

On the Shed Geek Podcast

James has been on the show twice. In The Fusion of Faith and Business (November 2023), he walks through his path from shed hauling to trailer building and how he ties his Christian faith to the way he runs the business. In Trailblazing Innovation (February 2025), he covers the history of shed trailer design, the Shed Boss, where he thinks trailers are headed (lighter, stronger and more nimble), his mission work in Honduras with Christian Light Missions, and Marcus's growing role in the business. Both episodes are in the player above.

Delivery is the last step in a sale that starts much earlier. CAL tracks each building from order to delivery, and Shed Challenger builds a remote-controlled machine for placing sheds on site. To see finished buildings up close, visit the Spartanburg shed lot.

Company details, product descriptions and reviews come from creeksidewelding.com. History, the Shed Boss and James's quotes come from the Shed Geek Podcast show notes and transcripts for Season 2, Episode 82 and Season 5, Episode 8. Contact Creekside Welding directly for trailer specs and pricing.