PJ Trailers

[grsthegreat]

very odd indeed. my Carlisle tires on my old horse trailer are about 4 years old....in great shape. hmmmm

maybe mine were made on a Wednesday. i had a set on my old flatbed that i replaced after 6 years with a cooper i believe. they never blew, just old and word down

 

[Diamondpilot]

very odd indeed. my Carlisle tires on my old horse trailer are about 4 years old....in great shape. hmmmm

maybe mine were made on a Wednesday. i had a set on my old flatbed that i replaced after 6 years with a cooper i believe. they never blew, just old and word down

It could be the load you run. Most boat trailers that I deal with run at 90% or more rated capacity. For example, tomorrow I am going 400 miles to Knoxville to bring back a 9,500# boat/trailer plus or minus. Its sitting on 2 5,200# axles. My other boat/trailer was 6,800# sitting on 2 3,500# axles. My other boat/trailer is 15,600# sitting on 3 6,000# axles. As you can see these trailers are all running near max load all the time. Same thing with most campers. You will find they are right up there also.

Now take a car hauler, GN, or live stock trailer. Yes you can load it up to max or more but most times they are running lighter than max loads. I would also venture to guess 1/2 them miles are with no load other than the weight of the trailer. For example, I drove 100 miles a few weeks ago empty to haul a old 8N back for a co worker so on a 200 mile trip my car hauler had just the trailers weight then the return trip about 3,500# worth of tractor but was still 2,000# below the max weight.

I am glad you have had good luck but most have not. Like I said, a quick search of google will tell you a lot.


Chris

 

[grsthegreat]

It could be the load you run. Most boat trailers that I deal with run at 90% or more rated capacity. For example, tomorrow I am going 400 miles to Knoxville to bring back a 9,500# boat/trailer plus or minus. Its sitting on 2 5,200# axles. My other boat/trailer was 6,800# sitting on 2 3,500# axles. My other boat/trailer is 15,600# sitting on 3 6,000# axles. As you can see these trailers are all running near max load all the time. Same thing with most campers. You will find they are right up there also.

Now take a car hauler, GN, or live stock trailer. Yes you can load it up to max or more but most times they are running lighter than max loads. I would also venture to guess 1/2 them miles are with no load other than the weight of the trailer. For example, I drove 100 miles a few weeks ago empty to haul a old 8N back for a co worker so on a 200 mile trip my car hauler had just the trailers weight then the return trip about 3,500# worth of tractor but was still 2,000# below the max weight.

I am glad you have had good luck but most have not. Like I said, a quick search of google will tell you a lot.


Chris

that could be it in a nutshell.

but remember also, do a quick look on google on ANYTHING......and youll get alot co complaints. HEHE :laughing:

 

[Diamondpilot]

that could be it in a nutshell.

but remember also, do a quick look on google on ANYTHING......and youll get alot co complaints. HEHE :laughing:

That is very true. Most people do not comment on a product. 90% of product comments are complaints and 10% are praise.

I do know what I know. I take care of about 75 trailers in one form or another and 95% of the tires problems we have had were with Carlisle tires and Goodyears. Of that I would say 75% of the problems were Carlisle.

Chris

 

[coobie]

I have a (2007)) 20ft PJ tandem axle (7000 lbs)equipment trailer that IMHO is very well made.I have hauled a lot of equipment and have not had any issues.coobie

 

[tractorboy5500]

I looked at a PJ before buying the trailer I did get, and I looked at them alot, they are well built and painted good from top to bottom, some people just dont like powered coating, I will say PJ has alot better paint job under the trailer than the Longhorn trailer I bought. And PJ uses 2x6 ret. tubing on the outter rails, and others use 5" or 6" channel iron, only one thing wrong with the 2x6 tubing is, its 1/8" thick, but tubing is stronger than channel, most channel used on other trailers are 3/16" to 1/4" thick, so Iam not sure how that might work out, than again look how many stake pockets and bracing is used on the PJ in the rub rails, alot more than most other trailers. Far as the ramps on the PJ's they operate good, and smooth, most others are sloppy and heavy. Far as the wiring on PJ's, it is mostly inclosed and use good quality wire, alot of others use them stupid crimps that dont last very long at all. All trailer makers have there pro's and con's, just have to weigh out the bad ones and good ones.
I went with the Longhorn trailer due to i got alot of options added to it with out going over 8K, if i bought the PJ with all the options I did, it would of cost me over 10.5K, the 12K axle options cost me and the lower 31" deck option, the 31"deck option cost me $400 at Longhorn and would of cost me $1200 at PJ, that is just some of the differents between the two.
Like I said all trailer makers have there pro's and con's.

 

[Charlesaf3]

I was surprised at how expensive PJ ended up being around me - and hard to get what I wanted too. So I ended up going with Pequea. Guess Mid Atlantic isn't their market.