Northland Truss Systems, Inc. was founded by Rick Pierce in 1992 and started with a handful of Truss Workers, two Truss Designers, one Truck Driver and an Office Manager.  N.T.S. designs and manufactures roof trusses and floor trusses for new construction. Alpine Engineering of Pompano Beach, Florida approves all of our truss designs, in addition to furnishing the truss plates for manufacturing our trusses.

N.T.S. opened it's doors in Abercrombie, North Dakota, just thirty miles south of Fargo. The location was chosen because of it's accessibility to Fargo and small cities in both Minnesota and South Dakota. Abercrombie is also cost effective compared to the high priced real estate within the Fargo area. In January of 1993, N.T.S. expanded to the Fargo area by opening the General Office, but retaining the company's manufacturing facility in Abercrombie. By opening the General Office in Fargo, we made our design/sales people accessible to our largest sales base, which includes contractors and lumberyards in the Fargo-Moorhead and surrounding areas

N.T.S. has five semi-trucks with three of those having boom cranes mounted on them capable of extending to over forty feet for setting the trusses on the new buildings.

Currently, N.T.S. employs approximately forty year-round employees. The plant in Abercrombie consists of production workers and of those, there are approximately four Foremen, a Production Manager, a Shop Manager, a Production-Design Manager and three Designers. We also have four Truck Drivers, an Assistant Trucking Manager and three to four yardmen.

The Office in Fargo employs 12 year-round employees. They consist of the President, Office Manager, Trucking Manager, Human Resources, Salesperson, Office Coordinator, Design Manager and five designers.