Who's Getting One??

Is this the first step into self-driving travel trailers of the future?

Yeah, nobody is going to use one of these in a campground. At the price, only people with too much money or no other options for parking at home are going to be buying one. Most dealers just use a tractor with a front loader, which is probably a lot faster than this gadget.

Ralph Cramden wrote:
I can see it now. A Friday afternoon at a popular state or ACOE park. People arriving every 10 minutes for the weekend and here comes Mr Moron with his trailer valet. Parks the trailer in the middle of the loop road. Gets out, chocks tires, unhitches, pulls forward, gets out of truck. 10 minutes have went by if not more. Gets the trailer valet out of storage. Carry it over to trailer, lower trailer onto valet, remove chocks, operate valet to move trailer into site. 10 more minutes at least. Truck is still blocking the loop road, other arriving campers are backed up behind Mr Moron all the way back to the gate house. An amazing piece of equipment is this trailer valet. Ooooops, he forgot to charge the battery on the thing.


If you need that trailer valet to get into a site you may want to reconsider if your competent enough to be towing a trailer in the first place.

So RV dealers and mfgs are incompetent because they use forklifts and tractors for more maneuverability in tight spaces? I agree with Huntindog and BizmarksMom that the primary use would not be the campground.

Ralph Cramden wrote:
I can see it now. A Friday afternoon at a popular state or ACOE park. People arriving every 10 minutes for the weekend and here comes Mr Moron with his trailer valet. Parks the trailer in the middle of the loop road. Gets out, chocks tires, unhitches, pulls forward, gets out of truck. 10 minutes have went by if not more. Gets the trailer valet out of storage. Carry it over to trailer, lower trailer onto valet, remove chocks, operate valet to move trailer into site. 10 more minutes at least. Truck is still blocking the loop road, other arriving campers are backed up behind Mr Moron all the way back to the gate house. An amazing piece of equipment is this trailer valet. Ooooops, he forgot to charge the battery on the thing.


If you need that trailer valet to get into a site you may want to reconsider if your competent enough to be towing a trailer in the first place.

Username checks out.

I would love to have one to get my trailer into the seasonal site, currently I have to hire a skid steer to maneuver it in. I would however need a larger model then they produce. It's everything the skid steer has in order to pull it into my site.

Impossible because of the length of the truck and trees in front of the tongue to use the truck to get it into my site.

I can totally see that for maneuvering a tt around at home or in a crowded storage yard. Not so much for backing into a campsite. By the time I unhook the trailer and get the contraption set up and working -- I could have just backed in to the site.

#1nobby wrote:
Cool gadget for trailer parking challenged people. :)

trailervalet.com/shop/rvr/

www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GINFzcvHP3Q

These and the wheeled variety are very common in Australia for moving Caravans

THAT is cool. And expensive. At a minimum, my small TT (4600ish lbs) would need the middle size, 5,000lb rated, for $3400. I'd almost go with the largest one to give some "safety" room.

If they could lower the price (well, a LOT), they would sell like hotcakes. RV dealers could include them as an option when you buy a camper.

Things I didn't know I needed....