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<blockquote data-quote="War-Jeeper" data-source="post: 1568314" data-attributes="member: 16377"><p>I have towed a 40' Featherlite aluminum trailer all over the west coast now. Its 12" over height and has full interior walls and a bunch of cabinets and crap. Empty it weighs 5800 pounds. This is our race teams trailer so it regularly hauls a race car and overloaded pit cart. JeepMauler and myself also used this to haul 2 rock buggies to AZ and back some months ago</p><p></p><p>If your not worried about cost I'd go aluminum just for the weight savings alone. Our trailer is a 2004 (I think) and we have had zero issues with it. The owner before us went too and from california with it regularly so I'd guess it has well over 150K for miles on the thing at this point. I personally have put close to 10K on it. Has two 7K axles on it, the frame for the axles themselves is steel and then the aluminum structure is bolted to that steel sub structure. I use to have a photo of it but not sure what I did with it. The savings on weight will help your truck espcially with the added heigh on the trailer already dragging you down and you wont have to worry about the interior wall structure rotting (a lot of steel trailers use timber construction for the wall framing or steel there too with eve more weight and possiblity of it rusting). </p><p></p><p>Just my .02 cents. If I ever own an enclosed it'll be full aluminum</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="War-Jeeper, post: 1568314, member: 16377"] I have towed a 40' Featherlite aluminum trailer all over the west coast now. Its 12" over height and has full interior walls and a bunch of cabinets and crap. Empty it weighs 5800 pounds. This is our race teams trailer so it regularly hauls a race car and overloaded pit cart. JeepMauler and myself also used this to haul 2 rock buggies to AZ and back some months ago If your not worried about cost I'd go aluminum just for the weight savings alone. Our trailer is a 2004 (I think) and we have had zero issues with it. The owner before us went too and from california with it regularly so I'd guess it has well over 150K for miles on the thing at this point. I personally have put close to 10K on it. Has two 7K axles on it, the frame for the axles themselves is steel and then the aluminum structure is bolted to that steel sub structure. I use to have a photo of it but not sure what I did with it. The savings on weight will help your truck espcially with the added heigh on the trailer already dragging you down and you wont have to worry about the interior wall structure rotting (a lot of steel trailers use timber construction for the wall framing or steel there too with eve more weight and possiblity of it rusting). Just my .02 cents. If I ever own an enclosed it'll be full aluminum [/QUOTE]
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