Trailer News & Tips

Summer is hard on trailers. Black bitumen, 40-degree days and a loaded axle cook tyres and bearings faster than any other time of year. A trailer that was fine in July can come unstuck on the first hot run down the highway. Here’s what heat does, what to check before you go, and how to […]

Most trailer trouble starts before you leave the driveway. Load it badly and the trailer will sway at 80, the ute will feel light on the front, and the first bump on the Princes Highway will tell you about it. Good loading takes ten minutes. Here’s how to do it right. Where the Weight Goes […]

Going forward with a trailer is easy. Going backwards makes grown adults go quiet and white-knuckle the wheel. It feels wrong because it is wrong, at least compared with reversing a car. The trailer swings the opposite way to your steering, and it does it faster than you’d like. Once you know the one trick, […]

A trailer that weighs 2 tonnes loaded wants to keep going when you hit the brakes. If the trailer’s brakes aren’t doing their share, your ute is stopping its own weight plus the trailer’s push from behind. Most people never think about trailer brakes until they need them. Here’s what you actually need to know. […]

A trailer parked on a nature strip with nothing on the coupling is a free ride for someone with a ute and ten seconds. It happens to box trailers, tippers, cages and car trailers, and it happens in good suburbs too. The good news is that thieves are lazy. Make yours a hassle, and they’ll […]

More EVs and plug-in hybrids are turning up in driveways, and a fair few owners are finding out the same thing. The car is quick, quiet and cheap to run, then they hook a trailer on and the range number on the dash starts dropping like a stone. Towing with an EV is doable. It […]

Jobs Australians Hire a Trailer For (That Have Nothing to Do With Moving House) Ask most people what a trailer’s for and you’ll get the same answer: moving house, or a tip run. Fair enough, those are the obvious ones. But spend a week behind a hire desk and you’ll see trailers going out the […]

You’ve bought something off Marketplace three suburbs over, or your own car’s died and needs to get home, or you grabbed a bargain at auction and now you’ve got to collect it. Whatever the reason, hiring a car trailer to move an actual car is a different job to towing a box trailer full of […]