here are the photo's of the two transport trailers .
jim

here are more of the other transport

OOOOO Those are sweet!! Thanks for sharing Jim

The Yellow Lowboy looks an awful lot like the GHQ 50-Ton Lowboy Trailer: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/284-62001 The neck of the GHQ one is a little different, but its pretty close

Awesome, thanks Jim

The first one looks very close to my flatbed

Trucklover Wrote:OOOOO Those are sweet!! Thanks for sharing Jim

The Yellow Lowboy looks an awful lot like the GHQ 50-Ton Lowboy Trailer: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/284-62001 The neck of the GHQ one is a little different, but its pretty close

Josh the differance being that that this is a transport trailer the front folds down to form a ramp after the trailer is uncoupled.
jim

Not sure if your looking for a pic of the GHQ lowboy trailer but here's a shot of one

Bruce

bdw9535 Wrote:Not sure if your looking for a pic of the GHQ lowboy trailer but here's a shot of one

Bruce

On this one, I think the goose neck comes off and the ramp is the front of the bed itself. After being loaded, the gooses neck is then hooked back to the trailer. I think that type trailer requires the tractor pulling it to have air suspension. The driver would "dump" the air out of the suspension, and the tractor would lower enough to put the bed on the ground. Then the drive would unhook the goose neck, fill the air bags, and pull away from the rest of the trailer. After the trailer was loaded/unloaded, the driver would back up to the trailer, dump the bags, hook up the goose neck to the trailer, and then refill the bags and be ready to haul the trailer away.

bdw9535 Wrote:Not sure if your looking for a pic of the GHQ lowboy trailer but here's a shot of one

Bruce

I was looking to see if this flatbed was an actual design or a made up one from Majorette

tomustang Wrote:

bdw9535 Wrote:Not sure if your looking for a pic of the GHQ lowboy trailer but here's a shot of one

Bruce

I was looking to see if this flatbed was an actual design or a made up one from Majorette

That one is taking a lot of liberties. The "goose neck" is solid, so the only way to load it would be with ramps on the rear, except that most heavy equipment would not be able to negotiate the big bump from the area over the tires into the well. I think you could kit bash it into a reasonable model by adding the hinge and gusset detail at the top and bottom of the goose neck that is shown on the pics of the yellow trailer posted by Jim Currie. You would also need to reshape the nose of the goose neck to make ramp when it is lowered, and add the rollers that allow it to slide smoothly off and on the 5th wheel of the tractor.