Utility Trailers for Sale

This is the first question, and it settles most of the others. Our utility shelf splits roughly down the middle: light single-axles rated under 3,000 lbs, and tandems rated at 7,000 lbs and up. A single-axle is lighter on the tongue, cheaper to buy, and cheaper to keep in tires. For one machine, a load of mulch, or a monthly dump run, it's all the trailer the job needs. The tandem earns its second axle three ways. It carries more than twice the load. It comes with electric brakes. And when a tire lets go at highway speed, the other three keep the trailer tracking behind you instead of plowing a fender into the pavement. The honest rule: size to the worst load the trailer will ever carry, even if it only carries it once a year. A trailer loaded past its rating wears out axles, bearings, and tires — and it stops the way it wants to, not the way you do.

Match the deck to the widest, longest thing you own — and check the gate opening, not just the deck, because the gate uprights are where a wide mower actually has to fit. A standard four-wheeler rides a 5x8 with room to strap it down. A 60-inch zero-turn wants a 6x12; that also leaves deck for the push mower and a wheelbarrow. Most side-by-sides run around 64 inches wide and need the length of a 7x14 to close the gate behind them. Every utility trailer we stock is a bumper pull — it hitches to a ball on the truck you already drive, no special hitch in the bed. If you're between two sizes, take the longer deck. Nobody has ever complained about the two feet they didn't have to leave at home.

A utility trailer is usually the least expensive trailer on any of our lots. Pricing starts at $1,698 and tops out at $16,795, and the bulk of the shelf sits near the bottom of that range. What moves the price is simple to see: a second axle, brakes, deck length, gate style, and steel versus aluminum. Financing is available, and so is rent-to-own, and we'll put the full cost of either on paper before you sign anything. But at this price range, the straight advice is often the boring kind: if the single-axle covers the job, buy the single-axle. Money saved on the trailer buys the tie-downs, the spare, and the jack stand you'll actually use.

A treated-wood deck is the default, and it's the right call for anything with small wheels or anything loose — a hand truck rolls across boards, not through them. An expanded-metal mesh floor sheds rain, mud, and grass clippings on its own and never rots; lawn crews tend to pick mesh for exactly that reason. Then look up at the gate. A taller gate lays down into a longer ramp, and a longer ramp means a shallower angle — that's what keeps a low-deck mower from scraping its blades on the way up. Mesh gates also let the wind through instead of dragging it down the highway. Gate style itself is the other fork — a fold-down ramp gate or rear slide-out ramps — and it's a choice worth making at the counter, not discovering at the first loading.