Independent Trucks

The Independent Truck Company was established in 1978 by Richard Novak, Fausto Vitello, Eric Swenson and Jay Shiurman, and was started because they felt there was a lack of good quality skateboard trucks available.

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The others on the market at the time either broke, or didn’t turn. They are owned by N.H.S based in Santa Cruz C.A and produced in San Francisco by Ermico Enterprises Inc, the only dedicated skateboard truck foundry in the U.S.A. Having been one of the biggest companies in skateboarding for nearly forty years and having a team that looks more like a who’s who of skateboarding greats, like Mark Gonzales, Andrew Reynolds, Eric Koston, Geoff Rowley, Tony Hawk, Jeff Grosso, Brian Anderson, Alex Olson and many more. So when it comes to skateboarding you can’t get better credentials.