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Re: Buying a team trailer - Advice please?

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Originally Posted by dlavery View Post
The 5x8 trailer you show above is about the biggest you will want to get if you intend to pull it with a mini-van. Anything larger, and you will likely overload the transmission, particularly if you are on a long drive. Blowing out the transmission on your mini-van while hauling a trailer 700 miles from home is not fun. Trust me on this.

-dave
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I feel your pain - no fun in a Suburban, either. There was nothing in our 12-foot trailer full of tools that could help the blown transmission. We need something that large, because we are homeless and our pit set-up and robots live there.
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