Deckover Trailers for Sale

The case for a deckover is width, start to finish. A trailer with fenders gives you a deck around 83 inches across, and the tires own the rest. A deckover puts the tires underneath. The load floor runs the full footprint.

That changes the load plan, not just the number. A forklift sets pallets from whichever side the stack is on, with no threading forks between fenders. Standard 48-by-40 pallets go two across, and there's still room for straps at the rub rail. Bales run two abreast instead of single file. On a hay day, that's one trip instead of two.

An implement that's wider than it is heavy sits flat up here: a folded shredder, a disc, a rake. On a fender trailer that same width rides up on the rails instead. If your loads are wide, boxy, or set by machine, you're on the right page.

Two ways, and both are easy to set up. A forklift loads a deckover at any height, so pallet work never asks the question. Drive-on loads do ask it: the floor sits roughly 34 inches off the pavement, close to a foot above a fender-style deck. That's a ramp question, and it has a clean answer.

Ramp length is the fix. On a 34-inch deck, 5-foot ramps put the climb near 35 degrees. Move up to 8-foot ramps and it drops to about 20. That's where the flip-over and spring-assist ramp options earn their money. PJ sells theirs under the Monster Ramps name. Dovetail versions drop the last few feet of deck toward the ground and gentle the angle further.

Some builds go after the height itself. Pierced-beam frames run the axles through the main beams instead of under them, which lowers the deck a few inches and costs you no width. Tell us what drives on and how low it sits. We'll walk you to the deck-and-ramp combination that loads it without scraping. And if the machine is low-slung, or tall enough to worry about bridges, the trailer built for that is a lowboy. One lot over.

The hitch is the price fork. Bumper-pull deckovers hold down the low end of the $0-to-$31,099 spread. Those are tandem-axle units in the 14,000-lb class, sized for pallet work and implements behind a pickup with a ball mount.

Longer decks, heavier axle sets, ratings that climb toward 40,000. Prices climb with them.

Financing and rent-to-own get written at every store, and the paperwork reads in totals. That means what the trailer costs over the life of the note, never just the payment on its own. So if the budget is a fixed number, lead with it. We'll fit the deck to the number instead of working the other direction.

The prices above are cash prices. Tax, title or registration, and the doc fee come at signing, and your state sets the biggest pieces. One short question settles all of it: what does this unit run out the door? Ask it, and budget off the answer we give you.