Hotshot trailer: how reliable are Top Shelve Trailers? Big Tex?

Yep PJ makes a good trailer, so does LoadTrail/LoadMax.

 

Any opinions on Texas Pride Trailers?

 

Had heard a few people that like there tandem dual gooseneck. One guy told me it was a good trailer. He had been using it to pull heavy loads. And I think he was on this third year with it. He did say the paint was not the best. But it was priced good, or to him it was.
Pete

 

Personally, I'd avoid Texas Pride.

 

I started to buy one a while back and did not like the movement in the deck when bumps were encountered.

 

Yep, there's many subpar trailer builders out there. The trailers look good in the pictures online, and even up close to someone that doesn't know what to look for. When ever I talk to a trailer dealer and they start asking if I want to add a torque tube, I tell them if your trailer needs a torque tube I don't want it.

Many builders have to add torque tubes because without them, their trailers wiggle like a fish . The reason they do that is because they aren't built well,, they're built with low grade steel, to thin of steel, or all of the above.

And when you're at a dealer looking at a trailer take a tape measure to it. I've seen so many trailers out of square, wider at one end then they are at the other. The last one I looked at over in Sulpher Springs at a small dealer, the trailer was 105 inches wide at the front and 99 inches wide at the rear. Lol