Flatbed Trailers for Sale

Deck length, axle rating, and the hitch are what you're paying for on a flatbed, and together they stretch the range from $6,498 to $31,099 — with the bulk of the stock priced through the middle. A tandem-axle bumper pull at 14,000 lb GVWR is the low end of the range; a long triple-axle gooseneck rated over 20,000 lb is the top of it. Financing and rent-to-own are written at every store, and the terms come in whole dollars over the life of the note — you'll know the total before you sign, not just the payment. A flatbed that hauls for a business usually earns its price back in saved rental fees; if yours only works a few weekends a year, say so on the phone and we'll steer you to the smallest deck that does the job.

The listed number is the deck's cash price. The check you'll actually write adds tax, title, and the doc fee — all of it state-dependent — so have the store run your out-the-door total before you settle on a figure.

Size the deck to the longest load you haul regularly — not the biggest one you can imagine. Sixteen-foot lumber rides flat on a 20-ft deck with room to hook a strap at both ends. A 25-ft deck lines up five 5-ft round bales nose to tail; at roughly 1,200 lb a bale, that row weighs about 6,000 lb — comfortably inside a 14,000-lb trailer's payload. If the tractor travels with a box blade still pinned to the three-point, run the tape over the whole hitched rig — the combined length is what has to fit the deck. And if anything drives on under its own power, get the dovetail with slide-in ramps — a straight-deck flatbed loads fine by forklift, but a low front axle will scrape a steep ramp angle.

The names overlap and buyers mix them daily, so here's the short version. A flatbed carries its bed between the wheels, with fenders over the tires — it rides lower than a deckover, only a lowboy sits lower still, and nothing loads easier from the side. A deckover lifts the deck above the wheels so it's full width, corner to corner — that story lives on our deckover trailers page. An equipment trailer is the heavier-built machine hauler — skid steers and excavators are its whole job, over on equipment trailers. A car hauler is the light, low version sized for vehicle tires and ramps — see car haulers. If your loads are lumber, pipe, hay, pallets, or a tractor and its implements, you're already on the right page.