ocsurf16

IM from south jersey right on the ocean..there is never any GN around here..yea there is always the campers and horsetrailers every once and awhile..but flat decks, ive always wonderd y there not so popular this way...this site has turned me onto them now i have a flatdeck and a dump both GN ...well for now the way i see it is that nobody can borrow them

Totallyrad

OCsurf, funny you mention that. My first trailer was a bumper pull and I deliberately set it up as a pintle, for the same reason. I don't like to say no but I also don't like to loan my stuff out. It never comes back the same. Since I switched to a GN, I've been much happier.

ocsurf16

haha yeah i had a pintle for a bit too..but they just say will that hitch fit in my truck! ...i have alot of trailers for some reason i guess im addicted up to 8 of them..they always always come back to me messed up

OldDodgeOwner

It's the oposite here, I don't see near as many bumper pulls as goosenecks.

Checkmate

Once I went GN I don't ever wanna go back :-)
I does suck though that while my 03 is torn apart, I can't move my trailer.

killed300ex

There are very few GN up in New England as well, I have only seen 4-5 flatbed GN. I love mine but when my truck is down I wish I had a bumper pull so I could still move the trailer.

Mr. Big Ram

Gooseneck, only way to fly!!!

RAF

You are right about not seeing many of them. I live about 15 miles west of Atlantic City. I know of 6 GN with in 8 miles of me. Most of the time they only see the road when there is a tractor show. They usally run the back roads because they are all over loaded with 3 or 4 tractors. I just got a GN about 4 weeks ago. Hauls my backhoe a whole lot better than that pintle ever did.

1 grumpy

yeah I got a gn about two month's ago.I love it I use it mainly for hauling me and my buddies jeep's to and from the trail's.
Oh and mine is a 35ft 3axle trailer

induchman

That's because the OP lives out on the Jersey shore!

Dieseldude4x4

Got a GN and a bumper pull. The BP is just a singel axle for m-cycles and light stuff though.

2RamsNoCash

well on my road in ferrisburg vermont which is approx 5 miles long I count 11 gn s about as many bumper pulls and 30+ haywagons I have a place in Northwood NH and I see maybe 20 gn in whole town.I think its related to the area when in a rural/farm area you expext your pickup to do all it can. we now have two gn trailers one 20' 14k deckover and a 30' 16k beavertail and two bumperpulls a 7k car trailer ,and a popup camper.I can say pulling same load on our old 14k bumperpull beaver tail vs gn less shudder and more control and I load toward hitch more with gn..just takes awhile for some folks to see the advantage of paying 50-70% more for a gn with same cap as bp.

TSB

GN's are becoming more popular around here but there still aren't too many. I've got three now and like them much better than a BP. I have a dumping, a deck over flatbed, and a 3 horse slant load.
On a not so happy note, one of the cops I spoke to said they tend to look at GN's a bit harder then BP's because they think they are more likely to be commercial....

ocsurf16

i just bought my 2nd GN ...its a 16ft dump..its great, i can overload it way easy though so i gotta learn how to load it..its a 10k sis dump....truck pulls fine..my first load was 5300lbs worth of stumps to the dump..

CD in NM

I bought my first GN in 1974, lived in PA then, in fact lived in PA until 2002, GN's are all over PA and used a lot. I go GN with everything, just a great way to tow, even switched my 5th wheel to a GN coupler. I have a couple bumper pull trailers, one is a 12K, great for small equipment-bobcat, ditchwitch, etc - but everything big goes GN down the road behind me.

CD