Saw a very nice stacker trailer today..........

[Dreamscape]

Thought I would share this. I took the pic with my phone and had to crop it, so it's not the best. When I first saw it, it reminded me of Rusty's trailer. This is one nice lookin' rig! A stacker with duals and a steer axle in the front. Smart set up to keep the tongue weight down. I wonder who makes it?

[eddiepotts]

If you look on eBay's completed items under prevost you will see it. It did not sell for $525,000. Sure is nice

[happycamperbrat]

Oh yea! That's the ticket! Im seriously wanting a wagon instead of a trailor because of the tongue weight issue. Mike Sullivan and I had a long talk about this once and he suggested maybe mating a trailor to a dolly or cutting down a suburban or other truck frame vehicle to build one. Ive seen around farms and on the back of some big rigs where they pull wagons..... seems smart to me

[eddiepotts]

LOL it's not a wagon it is a truck blocking the trailor.

[demodriver]

It looks like a rig that I saw headed south on my way north from Evansville the other day.  Very nice set up.

[happycamperbrat]

check again eddie 

[Jeremy]

LOL it's not a wagon it is a truck blocking the trailor.

It is a 'wagon' trailer, if that describes a trailer similar to in principle to old horse-drawn wagons. I think the technical term is a drawbar trailer. We've talked about them on here before - it's seems such an obvious solution to the tongue-weight issue that it's amazing they aren't far more common. Difficulty reversing is the usual argument against them, but I don't really buy that myself

Jeremy

[zimtok]

I've backed up hay wagons many times in my earlier years, and it is just a matter of getting used to how it is done. It was always easier with a tractor then a truck because you can see better. With a bus a good backup camera would make it easier.

Didn't Greyhound use a similar trailers behind passenger buses to transport freight/packages?


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[rv_safetyman]

I have a bit of information on Wayne's (rusty) trailer including the contact here:

http://www.rvsafetysystems.com/Trailer%20Towing.htm

I recently took a fellow up to Wayne's do take a look at his trailer.  The fellow is looking at two that are for sale on the west coast.  The two are each in the $40-50K range.

Wayne's trailer came standard with an electric motor hydraulic cylinder that rotates the front axle so that the caster is correct when backing up.

Really neat design.

Jim

[rusty]

As Jim said this trailer has a hydraulic cylinder that when I but the bus in reverse it rotates the front axle that puts negative caster in the axle. I have put this trailer in some very tight spots. It is hard to see but the picture shows the cylinder.

[demodriver]

Very nice set up!^^^

[Joe Camper]

Who and where is the manufacturer?

[luvrbus]

Joe, Competitive Trailers in CA very pricey without the paint and siding I have another friend besides Wayne that has one of those very nice only 2 I ever saw both behind Eagles LOL.
No idea what Wayne paid for his but the one Cole has he paid enough to buy a very nice late model bus conversion

good luck

[happycamperbrat]

Okay, who is gonna start hacking these together and selling them at a reasonable price to us nuts?

[rv_safetyman]

Joe, I have the contact details on the link I listed.  This is the information I list:

Competitive Trailers (no web site   phone:  562-634-2006)

Teresa, on that same link, I show how the European commercial trailers are built.  I still think that some version of that system would work for our buses.

Of course, the Trailer Toad (shown in the linked page) is a pretty good option as well.

Jim