South Florida Trailer Repair hosted by The Trailerman

  So you’ve decided it’s time. You are tired of borrowing your friend’s horse trailer, you now have a vehicle designed to pull a trailer, and it’s time to go shopping. But not so fast. Before you plunk down that savings on a new ride for your beloved beast, here are three things you should check first.   The Floor. When we shop for horse trailers, we tend to think in numbers. How many horses will it hold? How tall is it? How wide is it? What does it weigh? And while these things are important, they can also blind us to a more important, and limiting, factor – the floor. You see, if the floor is bad, it no longer matters how many horses the trailer will hold (I’d say zero), what it weighs, or how tall it is. It is not a safe trailer . I repeat, if the floor is bad, the trailer is not safe. So how do you check the floor? You grab those mats, pull them up, and give it a look. Or better yet, pull the mats all the way out and inspect every inch of the floor. Look for any sig