Hi,
From time to time, we need to haul woodchips, mulch, landscape stone,
furniture/appliances (we have an apartment), construction materials (we will
be building a storage room in our garage and will need to bring home drywall
sheets), taking debris to the landfill, etc. We have a sedan (Oldsmobile
Achieva on it's way out) and a van (Plymouth Grand Voyager). The Van has a
cargo liner in the back (covers the floor and goes up the sides to the back
of the middle bench seat and windows) and can haul modest amounts of stuff
but getting something like woodchips (free for the taking at our town
highway & public services department) is difficult and messy even with the
cargo liner.

I'm thinking it might be a good idea to get a lightweight utility trailer -
light enough to be pulled by our van (according to the manual it has a
maximum tow rating of 2K but we had a transmission cooler installed when the
transmission was rebuilt last year) - or maybe even by a future car. We
don't need a trailer with a ramp.

I've looked at the trailers on the Harbor Freight web-site (
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A5AC14FFC ). The first three listed (the 1175,
990, 860 capacities ones) seem about right in terms of weight and size and
the price is certainly attractive. Of course we would need to put in decking
& sides. Does anyone have experience or opinions about these trailers? I
see that all of these trailers can be folded but I wonder if anyone really
does that.

While we are planning to use a utility trailer for jobs around town but it's
also possible we'll use it to carry supplies for car camping trips (During
the last camping trip the van was jam-packed with two adults, one 8 year old
boy and two collies plus camping supplies). I know a little about horse
trailers and how dangerous they can be to tow. So I want to only use a
utility trailer for car camping, only if it can be done safely. Would a
trailer like one of these need stabilizing bars or other
additions/accesories for safe highway travel?

And finally does anyone know of other sources of modest-sized utility
trailes?

Chris