Educate me on Trailers

[Phyrxes]

Originally Posted by Chi Meson

I thought I'd pull up this old thread rather than start a new one. We are about to get a trailer ourselves. I'm looking at a 6 x 8 or 6 x 10 being the largest possibility. We are also considering a 5 x 8 (which has a side door and drop-down rear).

Various points in the previous threads suggest that folks would go bigger if given another choice. We successfully took 2 robots to IRI (from New England) in a dinky 4 x 6 rented Uhaul, so the 5 x 8 would seem "spacious" by comparison.

However, when looking at about 40 lined-up robotics trailers at IRI, the 6x10, to 6x12 size seemed to be the overwhelming favorite.

Smaller size is easier to pull and is less likely to be over weight. It's $1200 less, too .

Larger size is...larger.

What would you do?

One suggestion I have is as you are debating size, map out all the stuff you intended to tote in it to events and see how much floor level space you need for items like tool boxes, battery cart, bot, etc. Our major requirement was we wanted to be able to put a maximum height bot on a movers dolly and roll it right in so that defined our space requirements.