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.

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.