Trailer repair at your yard, your site or the roadside: brakes, bearings, hubs, lights and wiring, couplings, jacks, suspension and tires. Call 800-395-4908 with the trailer type and what it is doing.
A trailer is awkward to move once something has failed, which is exactly why the repair should come to it.
Most Faults Travel With Us
Most trailer faults are brakes, bearings, lights or wiring, and all four are on-site work with the right parts on board.
Tell Us If It Is Loaded
Call 800-395-4908 with the trailer type, the axle count and whether it is loaded. A loaded trailer changes what can be done safely.
Inspect the running gear and the electrics together, find what has actually failed, repair it on site, then check the lights and the brakes work as a system before it is towed.
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A light that works until the trailer is loaded, a brake that drags, or a bearing that runs hot are three different jobs. Telling us which saves a return visit.
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Trailer faults cluster. A corroded ground causes several lighting faults at once, and one seized brake wears the opposite tire, so we look at the system rather than the symptom.
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Work completed with the correct parts, then every lamp, every brake and the coupling checked as a working system before the trailer moves again.
Heat, rain and stop-and-go towing are hard on trailer brakes and bearings, and a trailer gives very little warning before it lets go.
A trailer spends its life being pulled rather than driven, so faults go unnoticed far longer than they would on a truck. Around Charlotte the mix is particularly unkind: heavy traffic on I-77 and I-85 means constant braking, summer heat thins the grease in a hub that is already working hard, and the rain that comes with it finds every corroded connector and every worn seal. Bearings and brakes are the two that matter most, because both give very little warning and both are serious when they fail at highway speed. A quick check of hub temperature after a run tells you more than any mileage figure.
Trailer work sits under Truck Repair Shop Charlotte alongside the trucks that pull them, so one call covers both ends of the job. Where the fault turns out to be on the towing vehicle rather than the trailer, Repair Service Charlotte covers the general mechanical work on the truck itself.
The trailer calls that come in most often around Charlotte, and what each usually turns out to be.
Lights that work empty and fail once loaded. Nearly always a corroded ground or a chafed wire that moves under weight. Replacing bulbs fixes nothing.
One hub running hotter than the others. A bearing or a dragging brake. Worth stopping for, because at highway speed this is the failure that ends badly.
Pulling to one side under braking. Usually one brake doing most of the work while another does none. We check them as a set rather than adjusting the one you noticed.
Common trailer questions: which trailers we cover, what can be done on site, and how often the running gear needs checking.
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Utility, equipment, enclosed, box, flatbed and commercial trailers. Call 800-395-4908 with the type and the axle count and we will confirm before coming out.
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Yes. Brakes, hubs, bearings, seals, lights, wiring, couplings and jacks are all on-site work. Structural and welding repairs need a shop, and we say so straight away.
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At least once a season for a working trailer, and more often if it carries heavy loads in traffic. Bearings and brakes are the two that justify the check on their own.
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Call 800-395-4908 with the location and what has happened. Tell us whether it is loaded and whether it is somewhere safe, because both change how we approach it.