Buying a team trailer - Advice please?

[FoleyEngineer]

Hi,

Team 910 has been given a generous donation to purchase a "trailer of our choosing" to transport the team robot, batteries, cart and tools to and from competitions for the coming year (and beyond). It can be new or used (whatever we want) and we're looking at the $2,000 price range or so. With Michigan's new district event structure, being able to transport the robot ourselves is more important than ever.

We were thinking a 5x8 would be a nice size, or maybe even up to a 5x10? We want to be able to tow it behind any family's minivan or pickup so don't want anything overly heavy or unwieldy. We figure we'd like to be able to store the robot upright (therefore a 5' high interior (with a way to get it in there) would be nice. Not sure if a ramp rear door or vertical doors would be better.

Can anyone give us advice as to what to buy and some "lessons learned" please? BTW, if we get a used one, we might have enough money left over to buy some neat vinyl graphics with "Foley Freeze Robotics / Team 910" across the sides. Does anyone have a line on how / where to get this made?

Thanks much!

John

Maybe something like this Haulmark 5x8 would be good?