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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

Gooseneck, only way to fly!!!

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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....

 

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..

 

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