Club trailer pics

[slowautoxr]

Does someone have pics of the AL club trailer? Also any comments on what you like and dislike about it as well would be appreciated. TAC/TVR is going to be purchasing a new trailer and I'd like to get as much input as possible before the purchase. Here's our thread about it if you want to read it.

[JohnW8]

I wish our trailer had more cabinet space that was able to be closed and locked. Right now we have a lot of stuff sitting on a few shelves in the front and it looks disorganized and open to theft. I'd like a rear door that opened like a ramp so we could roll the generator in and out more easily. I saw the plans being developed for the TVR trailer and they look pretty nice. Very organized, but will the cone trailer be able to handle ALL of the cones?

[zukitek]

our hydraulic brakes have been a disaster from the beginning.I wish they were electric .

[Cholewa]

In all honesty I think our trailer has a pretty nice layout, I just wish that the input plugs had been preplanned as ants have attacked them pretty hard core. I think shelving with prop up doors (like the main window) would be really nice so we could pack stuff in and not worry about it falling down. But other than that we really don't use the closed storage areas and there's a ton of room. I think the biggest drawback is all of the input/outputs on the outside wall of the trailer, but that's just me.

[slowautoxr]

In all honesty I think our trailer has a pretty nice layout, I just wish that the input plugs had been preplanned as ants have attacked them pretty hard core. I think shelving with prop up doors (like the main window) would be really nice so we could pack stuff in and not worry about it falling down. But other than that we really don't use the closed storage areas and there's a ton of room. I think the biggest drawback is all of the input/outputs on the outside wall of the trailer, but that's just me.

So how would you do the input plugs differently?

[Cholewa]

Let an electrician do them? All the front inputs for timing lights, the light board, speaker, etc are just poorly done and it shows. I don't know exactly how old the trailer is but i'm almost certain that installing those outlets was a weekend job by someone in the club.

I think part of the problem is that they are mounted pretty high up on the trailer, and the cords are heavy so they gradually pull the sockets out. So reinforcement would be good, along with placing them lower on the trailer body, and maybe adding a small rail to rest part of the cording on would be nice.

Hell, you could make a panel that flips down so you can access the plugs perpendicular when plugging them all in, then flip it 90* so they point towards the ground. But I know nothing about doing something like that. It's just something I've noticed in my short time around the trailer.


If you're going to go all out, you might as well just put the inputs INSIDE the trailer, and have all your wiring on spools, threading them through a port going outside, so at the beginning of the day you can just flip it open, pick your cord, pull it out, plug it in, and be done, and vice versa at the end. But that's probably even more complicated than it should be.