i saw this today whilst parked on the m25, is this normal, the trailer looks broken or overloaded■■?
only a tilt they bend like anything, totally normal 
oh ok, was just curious just thought it looked overloaded. 
Wait until the last of the Lamberet Fridges get a couple more years on them.
We’ve already come across a couple of 1 year old trailers where the pin has pushed through the floor.
And they’re a ■■■■■■■ to repair because they’re composite floors, cut the floor out the inside and there’s an ally skin underneath before you can get to the pin plate.
I see the need for the competetive edge by making a trailer without a chassis, but it’s the chassis that has the strength FFS!
No wonder Lamberet went bust, can’t cope with all the warranty claims
Presume the pic was taken in Blighty and you were overtaking ?
Tut tut driver . . didnt you notice the sign on the rear flap (oo err)
May have been taken in Hungary (or elsewhere) and the OP was being overtaken himself 
Besides its a bit of a rarity nowadays, both a tilt and an east european with an old trailer, they normally have brand new ones subsidised by the EU
i was only in a van today, and yep on m25 and we wasnt going anywhere as lane closed due to lorry fire, and i woulnt of entered his rear if my life depended on it 
Some of the euro trailers really are crap, you’re right in that it doesn’t look right but I suppose as long as it gets him there, I saw one yesterday, don’t think it was foreign, looked like it was about to snap over one of the back axles. Some of these extender trailers for the long steel loads are designed to bow in the middle though.
Been pulling a few newish tilts lately and the build quality/design is appalling, the curtain tensioners on Krone trailers are laughable, thin bit of metal at the front you just slot in and can’t tension meaning it just falls out half the time and the tightening mechanism on the rear are just rubbish and feel like you are tensioning fresh air. Nothing like the meaty rat a tat tat of an SDC curtain tensioner!
More fool the customer for speccing this weak stuff though. The posts are naff as well, thin bits of metal to take the wooden boards are like cardboard, least some of the new ones have alluminium boards and posts in them.
Don’t even get me started on how micky mouse palm couplings are.
Also if you look at that picture, the unit is on those poxy low profile wheels so thats why the front end looks like its dropping a lot. If you’re carrying something like a slab or big coil of steel in the middle, the trailer will bend like that.
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Also if you look at that picture, the unit is on those poxy low profile wheels so thats why the front end looks like its dropping a lot. If you’re carrying something like a slab or big coil of steel in the middle, the trailer will bend like that.
+1, some people adjust the air suspension so the combination runs a bit more level. Some people donkey about with the trailer scuffing the catwalk it’s a personal choice…
I agree with the other posts about how flimsy european trailers are. I loaded a 12t gearbox on a Krone Euroliner once and the thing was bending like a banana.
No wonder the BAG are out in force to make sure our European cousins secure their loads properly.
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The ones we’re seeing through the garage have no chassis, just a plate up the front for the pin and a half chassis holding the axles at the back.
A lot of American trailers have this setup, and they are extremely flimsy. When I look on the American recovery websites, there’s hundreds of jobs where the trailer has folded in half, floor dropped out, forklift fell through the floor whilst loading etc.
How much extra payload do these trailers have by cutting half the chassis out?
Seems to me, they can’t handle the weight of a standard load, let alone any extra!
it’s all about tare weight i know, but modern tilts and euroliners are all matchwood and tinfoil - there’s so much flex in them that you have to have them on the dead flat to thread an ISO container through the rear