Are you Qualified?
Ask for Proof. The owners or managers of the companies that manufacture the trailers should possess either Engineering certification, trade certification such as Boilermaking Sheet Metal Fabrication, Fitter or be a ticketed welder or a combination of all or some of the above or similar thus providing them with the appropriated knowledge and skill to engineer trailers.
Why do you build trailers that way?
Ask what types of systems and technologies are employed in the manufacturing process. Many in the industry use slapstick methods to produce trailers, simply throwing them together without care for quality or consistency; the objective being to make trailers cheap, using cheaper black mild steel, very little material in the chassis, very poor and inconsistent welding, a sealer often applied over the welds in an attempt to hide them, finishing the trailer with a cheap hammertone paint finish used to try and hide much of the poor workmanship; no two trailers are the same.
Why do you build trailers from black mild steel?
If your are being offered a trailer that is made from black mild steel, ask WHY? Why are you being offered a trailer that has the body made from cheap black mild steel and the cheap black mild steel SHS and RHS. Some actually use discarded material call seconds in trailers, it is difficult to detect however it is often seen in areas such as tie rails; check the underside of the tie rail and if there is a split in the seam of the SHS then the material is discarded seconds material which has been purchased at a greatly discounted rate as it is sub standard.
Is it in my best interest to buy a trailer that is made from black mild steel?
Ask if the trailer will last as long as a trailer made from superior galvanized steel? if they say yes, ask for a written guarantee?
Is that really a heavy duty trailer?
See if the trailer has a chassis with full length side members and cross members every 300mm. If not then ask HOW can it possibly be a heavy duty trailer?
Will the springs wear through the chassis?
See if the trailer has a wear plate located beneath the spring. If not, ask WHY? Ask if the springs will wear into the chassis?
Why are the lights situated below the trailer?
If the lights are below the trailer in a light channel, ask WHY? Is it because it saves money by fitting a cheap, flimsy light channel often made from 1mm thick black mild steel rather than fitting a real rear cross member? Ask if the lights are more likely to be damaged when they are situated below the trailers' floor level or above the trailers' floor level? Why do some charge extra to have the trailer made so that the lights can be fitted above the floor level?
Ask if zinc paint is the same as zinc or gal steel?
Many pass zinc paint off as a zinc coating suggesting that it is actually zincanneal (galvaneal) steel and of course zinc paint is not zinc or galvanized steel, nothing like it!
Are you Qualified?
Ask for Proof. The owners or managers of the companies that manufacture the trailers should possess either Engineering certification, trade certification such as Boilermaking Sheet Metal Fabrication, Fitter or be a ticketed welder or a combination of all or some of the above or similar thus providing them with the appropriated knowledge and skill to engineer trailers.
Why do you build trailers that way?
Ask what types of systems and technologies are employed in the manufacturing process. Many in the industry use slapstick methods to produce trailers, simply throwing them together without care for quality or consistency; the objective being to make trailers cheap, using cheaper black mild steel, very little material in the chassis, very poor and inconsistent welding, a sealer often applied over the welds in an attempt to hide them, finishing the trailer with a cheap hammertone paint finish used to try and hide much of the poor workmanship; no two trailers are the same.
Why do you build trailers from black mild steel?
If your are being offered a trailer that is made from black mild steel, ask WHY? Why are you being offered a trailer that has the body made from cheap black mild steel and the cheap black mild steel SHS and RHS. Some actually use discarded material call seconds in trailers, it is difficult to detect however it is often seen in areas such as tie rails; check the underside of the tie rail and if there is a split in the seam of the SHS then the material is discarded seconds material which has been purchased at a greatly discounted rate as it is sub standard.
Is it in my best interest to buy a trailer that is made from black mild steel?
Ask if the trailer will last as long as a trailer made from superior galvanized steel? if they say yes, ask for a written guarantee?
Is that really a heavy duty trailer?
See if the trailer has a chassis with full length side members and cross members every 300mm. If not then ask HOW can it possibly be a heavy duty trailer?
Will the springs wear through the chassis?
See if the trailer has a wear plate located beneath the spring. If not, ask WHY? Ask if the springs will wear into the chassis?
Why are the lights situated below the trailer?
If the lights are below the trailer in a light channel, ask WHY? Is it because it saves money by fitting a cheap, flimsy light channel often made from 1mm thick black mild steel rather than fitting a real rear cross member? Ask if the lights are more likely to be damaged when they are situated below the trailers' floor level or above the trailers' floor level? Why do some charge extra to have the trailer made so that the lights can be fitted above the floor level?
Ask if zinc paint is the same as zinc or gal steel?
Many pass zinc paint off as a zinc coating suggesting that it is actually zincanneal (galvaneal) steel and of course zinc paint is not zinc or galvanized steel, nothing like it!
Are you Qualified?
Ask for Proof. The owners or managers of the companies that manufacture the trailers should possess either Engineering certification, trade certification such as Boilermaking Sheet Metal Fabrication, Fitter or be a ticketed welder or a combination of all or some of the above or similar thus providing them with the appropriated knowledge and skill to engineer trailers.
Why do you build trailers that way?
Ask what types of systems and technologies are employed in the manufacturing process. Many in the industry use slapstick methods to produce trailers, simply throwing them together without care for quality or consistency; the objective being to make trailers cheap, using cheaper black mild steel, very little material in the chassis, very poor and inconsistent welding, a sealer often applied over the welds in an attempt to hide them, finishing the trailer with a cheap hammertone paint finish used to try and hide much of the poor workmanship; no two trailers are the same.
Why do you build trailers from black mild steel?
If your are being offered a trailer that is made from black mild steel, ask WHY? Why are you being offered a trailer that has the body made from cheap black mild steel and the cheap black mild steel SHS and RHS. Some actually use discarded material call seconds in trailers, it is difficult to detect however it is often seen in areas such as tie rails; check the underside of the tie rail and if there is a split in the seam of the SHS then the material is discarded seconds material which has been purchased at a greatly discounted rate as it is sub standard.
Is it in my best interest to buy a trailer that is made from black mild steel?
Ask if the trailer will last as long as a trailer made from superior galvanized steel? if they say yes, ask for a written guarantee?
Is that really a heavy duty trailer?
See if the trailer has a chassis with full length side members and cross members every 300mm. If not then ask HOW can it possibly be a heavy duty trailer?
Will the springs wear through the chassis?
See if the trailer has a wear plate located beneath the spring. If not, ask WHY? Ask if the springs will wear into the chassis?
Why are the lights situated below the trailer?
If the lights are below the trailer in a light channel, ask WHY? Is it because it saves money by fitting a cheap, flimsy light channel often made from 1mm thick black mild steel rather than fitting a real rear cross member? Ask if the lights are more likely to be damaged when they are situated below the trailers' floor level or above the trailers' floor level? Why do some charge extra to have the trailer made so that the lights can be fitted above the floor level?
Ask if zinc paint is the same as zinc or gal steel?
Many pass zinc paint off as a zinc coating suggesting that it is actually zincanneal (galvaneal) steel and of course zinc paint is not zinc or galvanized steel, nothing like it!
