We are builders.
We believe every traveler deserves a way into wild country that leaves it exactly as they found it.
We are building a company that puts more people under open sky, close to weather and to each other, so that they will want to keep it that way for the next hundred years.
We set out to unplug the trailer… And found that’s only the first mile.
We’re building for people brand new to the road and for people who never really left it — tow it behind a diesel, a gas half-ton or an electric truck, Driftline still fits.
Recreational travel puts roughly 3.8 billion tons of carbon into the air every year.
We think low-impact travel and genuinely good trips are the same project. The DL.2 runs a full season on sun and storage, so the places worth driving to are still there next season.
3.8Gigatons CO₂e
Annually
Annually
0Tailpipe Miles
Per Season
Per Season
Driftline’s principles
01Keep your footing
We protect balance at work, at home and out past the trailhead, because rested people build better things and stay in the game long enough to finish them.
02Argue well, then commit
Disagreement is cheap early and expensive late. Say the difficult part in the room, listen for the version you hadn’t considered, then pull the same direction.
03Own the outcome
Nobody here hands off a problem and calls it solved. You carry a piece of work from sketch to the customer’s driveway, and you answer for how it lands.
04Be the crewmate you’d want
Cover the gap before you’re asked, share what you learned the hard way, and give credit loudly. Small crews only work when everyone rows.
05Ship what’s true
We publish the real range, the real weight and the real lead time. A number we can defend in a canyon at dusk is worth more than a number that sells faster.
06Build for the tenth year
Every joint, cell and latch gets designed for the season nobody is watching. Durability is the most direct form of sustainability we know.
07Leave the site clean
In the shop, in the codebase and at the campsite: hand it over in better shape than you found it. It scales further than any policy we could write.
How we work
Good teams are built on difference — in background, in training, in the way people read a problem. We run flat and collaborative, and we expect a high dose of candour, autonomy and craft from everybody on the roster.
Meet the crew
Field Notes
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Why I Traded a Fifth-Wheel for a DL.2
Introducing the DL.2™ Ridgeline Edition
Where does our aluminium actually come from?
Six nights off-grid in the Owyhee, on one charge
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