Talk:Trailer (vehicle)

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I took engine out of the definition, because trailers can also be pulled by (human powered) bicycles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alastairgbrown (talk • contribs)

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[edit] Types of trailers section

"There are five main types of trailer, defined by their axle arrangement and method of combination.", however, more than five types of trailers are mentioned in that section. Some clarification is needed. --Porqin 19:17, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, someone made the clarification. --Porqin 19:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trailer arrangements

By rights this section should be transferred to the road train article. That's my opinion. Any comments? --Peter Horn 17:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Doubles are not typically considered road trains, at least in the US. Single trailers on dollys are also quite common in my neck of the woods - for example a three axle tanker truck pulling a tank trailer on an A dolly, commonly used for fuel hauling in the intermoutain west. Toiyabe 18:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
But doubles are simply the minimum or "starting point", the rest is "add on". --Peter Horn 20:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Manufactuerers

Can we remove the list of manufacturers? It adds nothing to the article Graemec2 10:33, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


I agree, I think most entries are probably just self-promotion or advertisment, I'll delete and see what happens --John Reaves 21:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

One can use List of trailer manufacturers and include an internal link. --Mac 13:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sand

Which is the name for the truck and trailer used to transport sand ?. See http://www.tisvol.com/castellano.html and http://www.compraventa.com/view/5703685.htm?caller=pta_s&l=0&c=1&city=0 --Mac 13:07, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unreferenced trailers

There are boat trailer, camper trailer, and goat trailer photos, but no text for them.Jeff dean 19:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup-Rewrite

This article seems like a collection of dictionary definitions better suited for wiktionary than here. The intro needs to be rewritten and greatly fleshed out, w/historical data added. The rest should probably just be wiped or greatly converted and converted into a list of linked articles. Any information and photos not present in tow hitch and winch should be moved out of here and into those articles and deleted from here. MrZaiustalk 02:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Done - Cut out all the lists that didn't match the style guide, completely rewrote intro and most sections, barring the motorcycle trailer and winch/jack/hitch sections. MrZaiustalk 08:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Note that aside from the odd, unprofessional goat trailer pic (still seen in goat), I removed no pictures, but I did move one of the two boat pics down to the Winch section to A: avoid drowning the intro in pics, as it was before, and B: illustrate a winch. MrZaiustalk 09:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bus trailer

 It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality.
The Free Image Search Tool (FIST) may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

I suggest include a picture of a bus trailer. You can see the YouTube in external links. Thanks in advance --Altermike 22:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Not a bad idea, but wouldn't hurt to move your statement out of semi-trailer and into this article first. Then we'd have a section in which the image would be pertinent. Btw, the YouTube and jpg external links aren't really what the style guide calls for in the external links. Be better to add a news, manufacturer, or government source that describes those the battery trailers and to use that to introduce a references section in the article. MrZaiustalk 03:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Utility trailer

What is an utility trailer ?. --Altermike 13:12, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

http://www.wellscargo.com/ Those toy trailers by Wells Cargo that you see all over the place are a subset of utility trailers, as I understand it. Ditto the open top trailers like the ones pictured here: http://www.worthingtontrailers.com/trailer-models.aspx?ID=4 MrZaiustalk 13:29, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Definition of Semi-trailer - comments please

Please see Talk:Semi-trailer#Definition of Semi-trailer - comments please and provide feedback comments. H Padleckas 03:43, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Potrailer?

I have deleted the "potrailer" reference. I did a Google search on the term: apart from wordlists and other irrelevant entries, Google returned precisely ONE hit - from answers.com, which draws its encyclopedia content from Wikipedia. In other words, the only hit was a circular one. Until someone can verify other sources, I'm assuming this term is someone's invention. Ian Page 08:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)