Andrew Lyons with Transwest Truck and Trailer, is a genuine trailer guru. He's fun to talk to about trailers! I have learned many new advances in the technology that has engulfed the industry, from Andrew. When I meet Andrew, he was showing me trailer accessories that were only 2 weeks old, just coming to market! Below we briefly cover Hart horse trailers, Werm Flooring, LTA Series air ride axles, Master Brake Systems, Kodiak disk brakes, and Outlaw Conversions.
Transwest Truck and Trailer, is the largest "Hart" horse trailer dealer. I live in Colorado and see Hart horse trailers all the time, on the highway and at horse sales and shows. From the quality and strength that I see in these aluminum trailers, you will be hearing more about them in the rest of the country soon! Manufacturing trailers since 1968, a year before we landed on the moon, Hart offers custom built trailers as well as a full line of models including a trailer for Miniature horses. The floor on these trailers are interlocking aluminum tongue and groove, with I-beam cross members on 6 inch centers. Try to find that on any other trailer! All Hart roofs are 5/8" thick "ENCOR" fiberglass reinforced structural panels with a R2 thermal value for the ultimate in temperature, quietness, and strength. Tubular frames and upright posts instead of C-channel, with stainless steel bolts used everywhere and double framed doors. Even the rear butt bar folds to the left instead of the right, to avoid a backing injury.Ê When Andrew orders your trailer as he does for the trailers he has in stock, he picks the best axle rating and tire rating to fit your trailers individual loaded weight. Ask him about the low profile goosenecks available from Hart. Contact Andrew for more on the Hart trailers, tell him "MrTruck" sent you.
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Werm Flooring Systems.
The next trailer accessory that Andrew showed me, was the new Werm Flooring Systems. His shop was "pouring" a floor of a horse trailer while I was there. First the mat was removed, the floor cleaned, dried, and coated to bond with the Werm flooring. This left a non-slip, permanent floor that matched up with the walls and flush at the tail-gate. No more pulling the heavy floor mats out to clean them and dry the floor underneath them. It's just how I used to like my truck floor, all rubber and easy to clean!
LTA Series air ride suspension.
LTA Series air ride is as good as it gets! And each wheel is totally independent with 5"'s of travel. This is the ride that could let your horses fall asleep cruising down the highway! There is an equalizing valve that keeps the trailer level and the same weight on each wheel, no matter if you are parked on a curb, in a pot hole or those nice level fairground parking lots. How would you like to lower your trailer 3#'s to unload the horses or walk into the "living quarters." And all this bolts to the same spot as the torsion axles you have now. These "Super Axles" are available with drum or disc brakes and electric or hydraulic actuation. The suspensions are the same brake plungers you see on the big rig, 18-wheelers. All this quality workmanship and a 5 year warranty. Contact Andrew Lyons, tell him "MrTruck" sent you. Transwest Truck & Trailer.
Master Brake Systems
Master Brake Systems, oh my! Way back when, 20 years ago when I was replacing magnets left and right on my electric trailer brakes, I envied the bigger hydraulic dump gooseneck trailers. A lot of them had electric over hydraulic brakes. And I had my magnets. So I gave up on trailer brakes and went to duallies. Electric over hydraulic brakes seem to disappear for a while and I hadn't heard about them for years. Then I saw Transwest's axle display at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. They're back! Now this isn't the vacuum system that has a pump on your truck and the long hose to your trailer. This ElecDraulic system from Master Brake System's is self contained with it's own electric gear driven brake booster. Now this is advanced, it has it's own battery and uses your trucks battery if it needs it, and charges your emergency breakaway disconnect battery. With it's micro processor it will self diagnose, give you proportional braking, and can, as an option give you ABS on your trailer.Ê And I haven't even got to the part about how much better hydraulic trailer brakes are, with less fade, reduced maintenance costs and faster brakes. There is a reason your truck has hydraulic brakes.
"BrakeSmart" trailer brake controller.
Don't stop here, Master Brake Systems has just came out with a "BrakeSmart" trailer brake controller. It will run electric or hydraulic brakes and talk about power! My test drive with Andrew was smooth. When you are applying the brakes, you don't know you have a trailer on back! The is no jerk when the trailer brakes kick in. This was pulling a trailer with electric brakes too. The controller is programmable to fine tune your trailer braking requirements but why? It's automatic and self adjusting, it knows if you have electric brakes, hydraulic brakes, air ride, loaded or empty trailer and detects and displays trailer brake system problems. You will have a full trailer brake at any gain setting and there are 16 gain settings. Check out their website. http://masterbrake.com/.
Kodiak disc brakes.
The "Big Three" truck makers from Detroit, all have 4-wheel disc brakes standard now. I was glad to see this. Disc brakes fade heat better, brake better and are cheaper and easier to replace. I live in a mountain state. Going down hill will test brakes in a hurry. Kodiac replacement trailer disc brakes are 10" to 13" vented rotor heavy duty brakes. The brake dust falls threw the rotors instead of sitting on the bottom of your drums and you don't have to pull the hubs to work on them.
With the more powerful diesel pickup trucks coming out each year, I know you can pull more weight, pull it faster, and now the with all these trailer accessories, you can stop this bigger trailer, smoothly and safely! Tell Andrew that MrTruck sent you. Transwest Truck & Trailer.
Outlaw Conversions.
One more thing, on my visit to Transwest Truck & Trailer, is the Outlaw LQ horse trailer conversions. There is a big difference in what you see between an average RV trailer and what Outlaw Conversions does to a horse trailer! I wish my house had the quality Oak cabinets that were in this horse trailer. I go to a lot of RV shows a year, looking for the latest and greatest, and I've seen several $100,000 plus RV's that didn't have Outlaw's kind of quality! Some of their upgrades belong in Garth Brooks tour bus! Ask Andrew about them, and see Outlaws website. http://www.outlawconversions.com/.
Transwest.
Transwest sells used trucks and the big ones. I know when I upgraded to bigger trucks, I never got to work on them much anymore . Go look at the size of those axles, brakes, trannies, engine brakes, diesels, tires, fuel tanks and then count the gears! In Colorado we have these tall hills with snow on them year-round. A truck with a loaded trailer pushing it, can get some speed on the fast side of the mountains! It will surprise you how much brake pad you can use up, when you're scared to death! Call Andrew Lyons 1-800-909-7071 email alyons@transwest.com.
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