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Trailer Specifications and Cost-Effectiveness

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The presenter transitions to discussing the trailer's overall capacity. The Southland Trailers representative explains that this particular trailer is 40 feet overall with tandem 16,000 lb axles. It has a gross weight rating of 30,000 lbs, but a net weight of only 7,200 lbs, showcasing a high strength-to-weight ratio. He highlights that this steel trailer is only 200 lbs heavier than an equivalent aluminum gooseneck trailer, yet offers a 12-foot hydraulic beavertail compared to standard 5-foot manual ramps found on aluminum counterparts, providing significantly more functionality and durability at a third of the cost.

Goal: Understand the trailer's full specifications, weight, and advantages over aluminum alternatives.

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third of the cost from an aluminum trailer equivalent how about wait a a third a third of the cost yeah aluminum's expensive you need a lot of it you need a very high grade when you're going to be hauling this kind of weight aluminum's pricey now the advantage then is that rust proof part right right but that's what I was going to ask you cuz aluminum doesn't rust correct now we can now this is going this is wet paint it's great paint PPG paint we've talked about that and we'll have a look at how we're building these things and you'll see the whole process but we we also do a zinc primer coat first we do it on our Commercial Series like on our Ren dump Traders our Commercial Series we will zinc coat that first then we will paint on top of that so you you built this is a trailer you guys built and you do use a zinc coating but what is that zinc coating that makes it a rust proof trailer for Life Believe It or Not You scribe through the paint like you dig right through the paint right to Bare steel that zinc coating is actually going to eat up and into that rust and it is going to remain rust frof you will see the mark but there's not going to be any rust for Life holy crap I had no clue all right we're going to go into the factory and check this out right and we are also going to look at the Next Gen 2 trailer that you have coming out because this is something that nobody has done and I'm I'm pumped to see it I have not seen it yet I haven't seen it yet I've heard about it for 3 days now so I'm going to get to see it here pretty quick and we are going to do some crazy stuff with that thing right 100% all right wait wait wait wait I I I turned the camera off and I learned crap this guy is like an encyclopedia of trailers right so zinc coating came from our Navy well that's not us that invented it yeah you guys put that all over your boats

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