Performance Floats began in 2007 when father-and-son team Graeme and Richard Dowling decided to build a 2-horse float in their workshop. At the time, their workshop was located on their family property near Braidwood/Bungendore. After building the float successfully, the family duo decided to continue their work and build another, and another and another after that.
Since starting the float manufacturing business, Graeme and Richard moved to a commercial workshop in Yass, NSW, where the business continued to expand. As a family, the Dowlings have more than three decades of experience in trucking and floating competition horses all around Australia. They also have 30 years in the manufacturing industry, building semi-trailers, truck bodies, tipping bodies, horsebacks and high-quality goosenecks.