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Landreneau
04-24-2007, 07:25 AM
How did your team go about getting a trailer for transportation? Did your school provide one? Are there any "FSAE friendly" trailer companies out there? We have been forced to throw money away to U-Haul the past couple years...

Thanks!
Landreneau
04-24-2007, 07:25 AM
How did your team go about getting a trailer for transportation? Did your school provide one? Are there any "FSAE friendly" trailer companies out there? We have been forced to throw money away to U-Haul the past couple years...

Thanks!
Andy K
04-24-2007, 07:39 AM
You may or may not take me seriously as I haven't done it myself... build one yourselves!!! UtilityTrailerKit.com (http://www.utilitytrailerkit.com/)
It may not be the solution this year, but can be worked on over the summer for next season. It'll come with all the hardware and plans for a basic flat trailer, but I'd say build up... The only problem I could forsee is the big f-glass cap needed to cover it.
Landreneau
04-24-2007, 07:48 AM
Thanks for the suggestion, we had considered it. The only problem is a small trailer like that would only work locally, we need something safer/more robust that can travel 300+ miles no problem.
Sooner_Electrical
04-24-2007, 10:08 AM
We have a trailer for sale currently, might be big for what you guys need but the info is at
http://www.sae.ou.edu/Trailer.htm this trailer was donated back in 95 which is how we orginally came about it.
Kurt Bilinski
04-26-2007, 06:28 AM
How about buying one of those Home Depot tailers and enclosing it. Are they large enough? But yeah, it's probably best to just buy some other team's old trailer. Time's better spent working on the car.
Korey Morris
04-26-2007, 07:57 AM
look for a local company that will let you borow one. Hell their trailer probably has their logo on it already, who wouldn't love to have their logo drug across america?!

A couple of years ago, our solar car team borowed the trailer that an off campus book store (ecampus.com) sells books out of. They had to remove the wire shelving, but it worked out great!
Sathersc
04-27-2007, 01:28 AM
We were really lucky to get a local company donate most the money for our trailer (it helped that their son was on the team before he transferred). Internet-trailer.com took care of the rest for us. We had the graphics done locally and it turned out really well.

http://www.miamiredhawkracing.com/gallery/generators/preview.php?imageid=137

Now... if only we can get a truck...