PinnedStart here: the manifest, the three bays and the house rules

new board. anything you move a car on belongs here, open or enclosed, bumper-pull, gooseneck or deckover, steel deck or aluminum. one axle utility trailer with a car strapped to it all the way up to a 28 foot stacker. the only thing that does not fit is a commercial carhauler with a sleeper and a fifth wheel plate, because that is a trucking job and the boards for it already exist.

three bays and i named them like a yard because that is how my head works after fifteen years of load sheets. Trailer talk is the trailer itself, floors and frames, enclosed vs open, the vents and the canvas on the boxes, tie-down points, what to look at before you buy one. Tow rigs and loading is the truck and the act of getting a car on the deck, duallies and diesels, payload and pin weight, ramp angle on a low car, winches, axles and brakes, and whether you need a DOT number to do it for money. Buying and auctions is the money bay, what you paid, where the trailer came from, and what rolled off the transport that was not in the photos.

why i started it. i ran a one-truck transport outfit out of Wichita for about fifteen years, mostly repo recovery and dealer moves on an open three-car wedge, and i answered the same questions in truck stop parking lots a thousand times. half of them were people who bought the wrong trailer because somebody on the internet told them a 7,000 lb tandem was plenty and then they hung a 4,200 lb truck off the back of a half ton. there is no reason that has to keep happening.

four rules and i am done. line one of any question gives me the trailer, its loaded weight and the truck you drag it with. if you are reporting a purchase, the dollar figures go in. selling between members is off the table, there is no classifieds bay here and that was a decision, not an oversight. and if a dealer, lender, auction house or hauling company signs your checks, mention it the moment it matters. past that, treat folks right. the whole thing written out long-form lives on the about page. curt.

both make sense and i folded them into the about page, name the car and give me its weight. i will not go rewriting a title for anyone, i will just ask in the reply like the rest of you do when somebody is vague about what they are hauling.

the signup log shows 39 new accounts since the weekend, which is close to triple what i figured on for a whole month, so a link somewhere is feeding people in. a hotshot runner and a guy who moves dealer trades are already among them, so a site this young has no business carrying the kind of knowledge that is already in here, but here we are.

and the ramp point is exactly what the loading bay is for. november and december is when everybody drags the project indoors for winter or ships it south to a shop, so the low-car questions are about to pile up. somebody already opened a good one over in rigs about walking a Corvette up a steel deck, go read it before you grind something off.