Trailers
What are Trailers?
It is a vehicle that is unpowered and is towed by a powered vehicle from one place to another. It is majorly used to transport different types of goods and materials safely. These trailers are categorised in different types on the basis of their uses, dimensions, capacities, models, body design, features, durability, and price. Trailers can also be customized to accomplish some specific needs. Logistics companies, contractors, distributors and more in need of trailers can buy affordable new and used trailers online at PlantAndEquipment.com.
Heavy duty trailers are used to haul equipment or other heavy-duty tasks that are being performed across different industries. Some of the styles of equipment trailers consist of landscaping trailers, flatbed trailers, gooseneck trailers, utility trailers, lowboy trailers, and tilt trailers. Trailers have undoubtedly made transporting hassle-free.
Trailer Types
- Flatbed Trailer - These types of trailers are quite a popular semi-trailer that is used today. The length of these trailers is either 48 feet or 53 feet, while the width of 96 or 102 inches. The most popular combo comes with a steel frame and aluminium bed and these types often have a wood portion for nailing down dunnage boards and aluminium.
- Removable Gooseneck Trailer - These trailers are used for transporting tall and heavy loads and equipment from one place to another. They are designed in such a way that it can carry up to 150,000 pounds depending on the number of axles the trailer has. These trailers have a maximum of 20 axles and the maximum legal length is 29 feet. There is another type in these trailers which is stretch removable gooseneck trailers that are similar to the removable gooseneck trailer but they are the stretch version with a maximum length of 65 feet.
- Lowboy Trailer / Lowbed Trailer - These types of semi-trailers include drops in deck height consisting of one in the right side after the gooseneck and other on the right side before the wheels. These drops help the deck to remain low as compared with other kinds of trailers. Lowbed trailers are mostly used to haul heavy equipment including bulldozers, industrial equipment, etc.
- Reefer Trailer - Reefer trailers which are also known as refrigerated trailers are used to transport chilled or frozen products as the temperature inside these trailers can easily be managed irrespective of what the outside temperature is. These trailers are dry van trailers that come with an internal cooling system. They are perfect to keep the enclosed goods fresh and prevent them from getting damaged while transporting as well. The weight of these trailers is the same as dry vans but the width of these trailers is 8.2 with a maximum legal height of 8 feet.
- Conestoga Trailers - These trailers have an innovative sliding tarp system that is useful in covering valuable cargo while transporting without damaging them at all. Also, these trailers protect the overall finishing or moving parts of the goods or equipment. You can place order for a used Conestoga trailer online at a comparatively low cost.
Besides there are many other types of trailers available in the market which you can purchase as per your consideration and business requirements. If you are interested in purchasing new or used trailers then you can explore a lot of variety of trailers at Plant & Equipment. We are the best online construction equipment and truck marketplaces in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
We help our valued sellers publish information about their different types of trailers for sale with a detailed description. On the other hand buyers in any business can visit us 24x7 to explore information about used trailer for sale of various brands. Such brands include Krone, Schmitz, Goldhofer and more online.
