What Makes a Horse Trailer Safe? with Brad Heath
What Makes a Horse Trailer Safe? Safety vs. sales hype in horse trailer construction, with Brad Heath
A horse trailer gets your horse from point A to point B, so it must be safe, right? Not necessarily. What a trailer is built from decides what happens to your horse when something goes wrong: a panic in transit, a hot summer haul, or a driver who runs a red light.
In this live presentation, Double D Trailers founder Brad Heath walks through the four parts of a trailer that matter most for safety (the frame, the walls, the roof and the floor), plus layout and towing, using real customer stories from nearly 30 years of building horse trailers.
About Brad: Brad founded Double D Trailers with his father in 1997. He's the inventor of the patented SafeTack Reverse layout and author of The Honest-to-Goodness Truth About Horse Trailers, which Double D gives away free.
In this video
- Frame: why a steel frame acts as a safety cage in a wreck
- Walls: single wall vs. insulated double wall, and what your horse kicks against
- Roof: how a bare aluminum roof can push trailer temperatures near 150°F
- Floor: what corrosion hides under your mats, and how to check for it
- Layout: escape routes for the handler and easy exits for the horse
- Towing: the two numbers that matter, and why payload is the weak link
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