About this forum
Car Hauler Forum opened in November 2025 for people who move cars on a trailer, from the guy taking one restored Chevelle to a show once a year to the hotshot running three a week, and who are tired of advice written by folks who have never watched a lowered car high-center on a ramp.
Open trailers and enclosed boxes both live here. Bumper-pull, gooseneck and deckover. Steel decks and aluminum. A 16 foot utility trailer with a car on it counts, and so does a 28 foot stacker. The one thing that does not fit is a commercial carhauler with a sleeper and a fifth wheel plate, because that is a trucking job and there are trucking boards for it.
It is run by Curt B., who posts as mod_curt_b. Curt ran a one-truck transport outfit out of Wichita, Kansas for about fifteen years, mostly repossession recovery and dealer moves on an open three-car wedge, and now he sells trailer parts behind a counter and does the hauling part time. He pulls a 20 foot open deckover with a 2015 Ram 3500 Cummins dually, and he has loaded more cars that would not run than ones that would. He reads the contact mailbox himself and is slow about it when the roads are bad, because that is when the phone rings for the day job.
What it costs
The server is ten dollars a month and the domain was fourteen for the year. Curt pays both. There is no advertising on any page, no affiliate code in any link, and nobody has paid for a thread or a spot in one. If that ever changes it will say so right here before it changes anywhere else.
House rules
- Trailer, axles and tow rig in every question. A single 3,500 lb axle utility trailer and a 7,000 lb tandem deckover are different animals, and so is pulling it with a half ton versus a one-ton dually. The answer changes with all three.
- Say what you paid. Buying reports without numbers get a note from a mod asking for them, and most people fill them in.
- Weigh it if you can. A scale ticket settles more arguments on this board than any spec sheet, and the CAT scale at the truck stop is twelve or thirteen dollars.
- No selling trailers in threads. There is no classifieds bay, on purpose. Linking a public listing to make a point about price is fine.
- If you work for a dealer, a lender, an auction or a transport company, say so in your posts. People posting as owners when they are not get removed.
- Be civil. The enclosed people think the open people are cheap and the open people think the enclosed people are soft, and you are all parked in the same yard.
- Mods move posts to the right bay and leave a note where the post used to be. Threads get locked rarely and with a reason written in them.
- Accounts are by email request until the spam settles down.
What this is not
Not a dealer, not a broker, not a trailer manufacturer and not a DOT office. When somebody here hands you a tongue weight, a tie-down rating or a rule about hotshot numbers, check it against the sticker on your own trailer and your own state before you trust a car to it.