Lowboy Manufacturers

Thank You for the response!
I am a Excavating contractor "31 yrs" by trade but have always had the door open to other contractors who needed equipment moved, the building business has been so bad since 2008 that i geared down my excavating business "sold off 80% of my equipment and in the past 6 years or so i have been doing more and more Lowboy work, which i like doing and if i can continue to get more work i would rather eliminate the excavating part of my business.
The lowboy work i do varies from Framers forklifts to 45 metric ton excavators, mostly local work "New Jersey" but i do work out of state if if the price is acceptable.
The Talbert 55SA i have now has been a good trailer and i like the new design in the adjustment of the height setting on the new ones.
Also Talbert has a good design for tucking the boom of a excavator which some manufacturers didn't have when i purchased it but are now copying.
I did hear of welding failures on the Talbert back in 2003/2004 but was assured when i purchased one it was isolated, i never had a issue with mine but a local contractor purchased a 80 ton 10' wide Talbert in 2015 and has had many weld failures and has had to return the trailer to be repaired.
I am looking for opinions and experience from anyone who will take the time, Thank You.

 

Good Question!
I have been looking at different types on Truck Paper just to see if something new or something i didn't know about was on the newer Lowboys.
One of the items i did notice is on the Trail King they have a removable deck over the tires which i like, the downside on that trailer is the back of the gooseneck doesn't have a area to hang chains and binders which i made 2 crossbars on mine and use the two stretched steel bins at each end of the trailer for chains and binders.
You are probably right about being happy with Talbert, just trying to cover all my bases.
Thanks and Good Luck to You Too!