This is a design mockup. The business shown here is invented, and the phone number, the prices and every specification on it are placeholders.

Drawbar & Axle

816 555 0154

Six trailers, drawn to the same scale, so you can see what you are actually buying.

Every lot in the state advertises a trailer by its deck. A 6x12 is twelve feet of deck and sixteen feet two inches of trailer, and the second number is the one that decides whether it goes in your garage, past your gate, and around the turn at the end of your road.

So both numbers are on this page, and the drawing below is to scale. A foot on the ruler is a foot on the ground.

0 ft48 121620 242832 ABC DEF
Thin line under each trailer is bumper to bumper. The dark bar is the deck you can actually load. The gap between them is the tongue, and it is the part people forget when they measure the garage.

On the lot this week

Prices are cash, out the door, with a spare mounted. Nothing here is a special order. If it is listed it is sitting outside and you can walk around it today.

A

5 x 8 single axle utilityMesh sides, tilt bed, no ramp. The one people buy for a push mower and regret buying for anything else.

Deck8 ft 0 in

Overall12 ft 4 in

GVWR2,990 lb

Price$1,545

B

6 x 12 single axle, ramp gateThe gate adds two feet when it is down and you need those two feet behind you, not in front of you.

Deck12 ft 0 in

Overall16 ft 2 in

GVWR2,990 lb

Price$2,380

C

7 x 14 tandem axle utilityBrakes on one axle. This is the smallest thing on the lot we would put a compact tractor on.

Deck14 ft 0 in

Overall18 ft 6 in

GVWR7,000 lb

Price$3,940

D

6 x 12 enclosed cargo, rear rampInterior height 6 ft 3 in. Measure your riding mower with the seat up, not down.

Deck12 ft 0 in

Overall16 ft 0 in

GVWR7,000 lb

Price$6,720

E

16 ft bumper pull stock, centre gateSlat sides, rubber floor. Hauls four to six head depending on what you are honest about them weighing.

Deck16 ft 0 in

Overall20 ft 4 in

GVWR9,990 lb

Price$8,150

F

24 ft gooseneck flatbed, 20 + 4 dovetailNeeds a bed hitch and a three quarter ton under it. Do not let anyone sell you this behind a half ton.

Deck24 ft 0 in

Overall28 ft 8 in

GVWR14,000 lb

Price$11,400

Measure these three before you drive out

  • Your gate opening, not your driveway. A 7 ft wide deck is 8 ft 2 in over the fenders.
  • The turn at the end of your road. A gooseneck tracks a long way inside the truck. A bumper pull does not.
  • Garage depth to the back wall, then take a foot off it for the coupler and the jack.

Bring the tape measure numbers with you and we will tell you which of these six fits. Two of them will not, whatever you were hoping.

What we do not sell

  • No dump trailers. Everyone asks. The good ones are more than we can stock and the cheap ones come back.
  • No enclosed anything over 16 ft. We do not have the room to turn it around on this lot.
  • No financing in house. The bank two doors down will beat anything we could arrange, and we would rather you kept the difference.

Come look at them on the ground

Open Monday to Saturday. Somebody is out there in the yard rather than sat behind a desk, so if the office looks empty walk round the back and holler.

Call ahead if you are driving more than half an hour: 816 555 0154. We will tell you honestly whether the one you want is still here.