Built for crews who work out of the trailer
A contractor trailer is a jobsite you tow. It has to lock, it has to carry tools and material on the same run, and it has to be ready at six on a February morning. What follows are the enclosed packages and dump bodies the manufacturers build for trade use rather than for weekend hauling. Filter by length, pull type or GVWR, or call us and we will put one together around the work you actually do.
Choosing a contractor trailer you will not outgrow in a season
Enclosed or dump, decided by what comes back
An enclosed trailer carries tools and material out and brings them home locked. A dump carries spoil, demolition waste and aggregate the other way. Plenty of crews end up owning both, but if you are buying the first one, the enclosed usually wins because it doubles as secure storage on nights when the van is full and the garage is not an option.
Rate it for the loaded weight, not the empty one
Payload is GVWR minus the weight of the trailer itself. Shelving, a ladder rack, a generator and a full fuel can all come out of that number before the first sheet of plywood goes in. Leave headroom rather than buying to the limit. A tandem running comfortably under its rating will outlast a single axle working at its ceiling.
Single axle or tandem, and where you will be parking
A single axle is lighter, kinder to a half-ton and far easier to push around by hand in a tight residential drive. A tandem gives you payload, brakes on both axles and much better manners at highway speed with weight over the hitch. For trades working narrow driveways all day, a 6x12 single axle often beats a bigger trailer that cannot get onto the property.
Plan the fit-out before you buy the box
Shelving, ladder racks, conduit tubes, e-track and interior lighting are what turn a cargo trailer into a work trailer, and the wall construction decides what will bolt in cleanly. Ask about wall thickness, stud spacing and interior height before you order, not after the trailer is sitting on your drive with a flat-pack shelving kit beside it.
Galvanized or painted when the trailer works all winter
Anything towed through West Michigan salt from November to March will show it eventually. Galvanized costs more up front and buys you out of the annual grind-and-repaint. Painted steel is perfectly sensible for a trailer stored inside and used in bursts. We stock galvanized BND dump bodies in Grandville for people who got tired of the alternative.
If a contractor trailer is not quite the shape of the job, our equipment trailers carry machines on a drop deck, the utility trailers suit open loads, and we take trade-ins against anything on the lot.