I picked mine up at their South Carolina facility as it was the closest to me and I went with the 17K gvwr as well since my 14k equipment trailer was maxed out with the skid steer and brush cutter.I bought one like this a few weeks back and picked it up in NC. Nice trailer, good price. It's the 17k gvwr but they "derated" if for me to keep me under a combined 26k. Derating it consisted of them typing 16000 on the paperwork.
I will have to see how it goes but I am probably going to sell my equipment trailer and that will leave me with the tilt deck and my gooseneck to haul tractors , skid steers etc on.A tilt deck is a little bit annoying trying to load multiple pieces but I love the speed and safety that it offers loading and not dealing with ramps. Another big plus is it won’t lift the truck off the ground and roll down a hill like a ramp trailer will do. It would also be hard to load an unsafe weight distributed load.