Its very easy to make sure your trailer is road worthy and your load is securely strapped down, but make sure that you have a legal number plate on the trailer that matches the number plate on the car. A hand written number plate is NOT legal.
The bearings on most car transporter trailers are the same type as used by boat trailers. These bearings are susceptible to water ingress and are often at the limit of their performance when loaded with the weight of a car. Check and replace them often
We use a Mitsubishi L200 to tow a number of work related trailers and recently a 'friendly' policeman told one of our employees that he should be using a tachograph as the total train weight could be over 3.5 tonnes. Is this true, I have been towing trailers for work for years and it never occured t...View Entire Thread
The small UK town of Darton can be found some 5 miles north of the town of Barnsley. 15,000 people reside in the settlement which dates back to Anglo-Saxon times. The name Darton is thought to be derived from Anglo-Saxon meaning Town of the Dearne (The town is on the River Dearne).