Carhauler to RV

mobeewan wrote:
An advantage of building your own out of an enclosed car hauler or an enclosed utility trailer is that you can build it the way you want it. You can use better materials and better building methods than the cheesy cheap materials and construction methods used on most small trailers. You also don't have to worry about shaking and bouncing it apart when going down rough roads to camp in isolated areas.

If your truck is adequate you can get it there in one piece. I plan on living in mine for the rest of my life once it's built and don't want something that I'm constantly doing maintenance on because it's falling apart. I've got a 28 ft travel trailer and can live in it, but I won't be able to take it where I want to and I don't want to worry about it falling apart on me pulling it down bumpy roads trying to go where I can't get to.

Yeah, it's going to cost me more to build than to buy something ready made, but it will be better and I did mention I'll be living in it the rest of my life.

One thing to look at if your going to travel off paved roads is ground clearance. Many Many cargo/utility/car haulers have pretty low ground clearance and often come with Torsion axles. That means raising them for ground clearance is a whole new axle set. you can specify the "lift" on torsion axles if you order a trailer to get the clearance you want. if it has a "conventional" spring setup likely may need to flip the axle, much easier to do.

When I looked "utility" "cargo" "car hauler" have basically the same GVWR for comparable sizes. My 7x14 cargo has 7,000lb GVWR, once you get to 16 or 18 ft you can easily get a 10,000 GVWR and it goes up from their. My 7x14 empty weight was 3,000lbs giving me 4,000 for cargo and stuff I added.