Modular Trailer

There is one unit in this catalogue that changes shape rather than size, and this is it. The modular trailer is a single galvanised chassis, 2 080 mm long and 1 140 mm wide inside, published in three factory builds: a bare flat deck, a railed version with a hinged tailgate, and a bike carrier with ramps. Tare is 200 kg on all three, gross vehicle mass 700 kg and published payload 500 kg.

Three published builds of the same modular trailer

• Flat deck. A flat galvanised sheet floor measuring 2 065 x 1 140 mm, 550 mm overall height, nothing above the platform. This is the build for equipment that bolts or straps down: generators, pumps, compressors and site tanks that have to reach a job and stay put on the way.
• With rails. Fixed side and front rails with a hinged rear tailgate, 620 mm side height and 1 090 mm overall. The build for loose and boxed goods, garden refuse, feed sacks and anything that would otherwise need netting on every trip. It is the dearest of the three.
• Bike carrier. A perforated galvanised floor, 200 mm sides, 760 mm overall, and two ramps for loading a motorcycle or a small quad. The ramps stow on the floor on a bracket with threaded knobs. On price it sits between the flat deck and the railed build.

Published specification

Fittings shared by all three builds

Chassis, A-frame and platform parts are galvanised throughout. Every build carries 20 tie-down rings fixed to the floor, two rear adjustable support legs, a 6 inch adjustable jockey wheel, a plated Alko coupler, a safety chain and a brake chain, two white powder-coated mudguards and a white powder-coated rear light panel carrying the numberplate and reflectors. The flat deck and railed builds are also published as available in a do-it-yourself version that packs into a case measuring 2 230 x 750 x 420 mm.

Payload, GVM and licensing

Gross vehicle mass is published at 700 kg, which is deliberately under the 750 kg line. Below that figure a trailer is not required to be braked, and this one is published with no brakes. That keeps it simple, light behind a small vehicle and cheap to run. It also means you must respect the 500 kg payload rather than treating it as a guide, because there is nothing but the tow vehicle to stop a loaded trailer. The requirements, including how the combination must be licensed and marked, are in the National Road Traffic Act.

Two published details worth checking at order

The road wheels are published as 165 x 13 inch while the supplied spare is published as 155 x 13 inch, so the spare is a get-you-home wheel rather than a matched fifth. The railed build also omits a wheel size row in its published specification, unlike the flat deck and bike carrier records. Ask us to confirm both points in writing before you order if wheel fitment matters to you.

How it sits against the rest of the range

This is the entry point. Everything else in our flatdeck line is braked and rated far higher, starting with the 3.0 m 1 ton flatdeck at 1 480 kg gross. If your loads are under half a ton and you tow with a small bakkie or an SUV, the modular unit is the sensible buy and it will not need a braking system serviced. Browse the rest of the light end in our non-braked utility trailers category.

Delivery, warranty and ordering

Delivery is free on orders over R20 000 and the conditions are set out on our delivery page; collection from our yard in Hartswater in the Northern Cape is welcome on any build. The builder warranty applies and we administer it on your behalf, with the terms on our warranty page. If you are weighing up the railed build against the bike carrier for mixed use, tell us what you tow and we will put it in writing through our quote request form.