Flatbed Trailers for Sale

Three things set the price of a flatbed: deck length, axle rating, and the hitch. Together they stretch the range from $6,498 to $31,099. The bulk of the stock is priced through the middle.

A tandem-axle bumper pull at 14,000 lb GVWR sits at the low end. A long triple-axle gooseneck rated over 20,000 lb is the top of it. Tell us what you haul and how often, and we'll walk you to the band that fits. If the deck only works a few weekends a year, we'll point you at the smallest one that does the job. If it hauls for a business, hold the price against what a rented deck costs you now.

Financing and rent-to-own are written at every store. The terms come in whole dollars over the life of the note. You'll know the total before you sign, not just the payment.

The listed number is the deck's cash price. Tax, title, and the doc fee get added on top, and all three depend on your state. Ask the store to run your out-the-door total, and you'll have one number to work with.

Size the deck to the longest load you haul regularly. 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. That sits comfortably inside a 14,000-lb trailer's payload.

Measure the whole rig, not just the machine. If the tractor travels with a box blade pinned to the three-point, run the tape over the hitched length. That combined number is what has to fit the deck. Bring it to us and we'll show you the decks that carry it.

Anything that drives on under its own power wants a dovetail with slide-in ramps. The dovetail drops the climb angle so a low front axle clears it. If a forklift does your loading, a straight deck gives you more flat space for the money. Tell us how your loads get on and we'll show you both.

Four names, four jobs. Here's the short version. A flatbed carries its bed between the wheels, with fenders over the tires. It rides lower than a deckover, and only a lowboy sits lower still. That low open deck is what makes side loading simple. 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, and 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.

Lumber, pipe, hay, pallets, or a tractor and its implements? You're on the right page. If your list looks like one of the other three, those links land you where the stock is.