https://www.google.de/search?q=Käfer+mit+Anhänger
(Yes, many of the pictures are of model cars, but there are some real ones as well.)
]]>You don't define the size of the load. Many of the pictures in your link would be illegal in the US. Not that you couldn't pull the load. But the stability of such a setup in a wind or sudden lane change can be very problematic. It comes down to weigh of the trailer and to some degree the auto pulling it.
Plus the other big issue is braking. You can gradually get up to speed with a small car pulling too much but if you have to stop will the trailer push the auto forward even after the wheels are locked?
My truck is rated to tow 10K pounds. But the truck doesn't weigh that much. But has the brakes, engine size, and frame/hitch point to deal with such. And the hitch point is rated for up to what is the US is a class IV. (They range from I to V) And it has the wiring and connector next to the hitch point to feed the braking requests and lighting information to the trailer.
I once, many years ago, towed a 10K load with a car, well an SUV, rated at 5K. It was just from a rental place to home and back. I took it easy and it was a sort distance. But I could quickly tell driving at much of any speed or distance was asking for a mini disaster.
]]>Yep.
My problem is that my house and most of my yard (1/3 acre total) sits 4-5m above street level. And to get around to the back where I'd want such 99% of the time means going under my utility lines which hang down with less than 3M clearance.
So no big trucks. Places are more than willing to dump such on the street but that creates situation where I need a skid steer or similar to keep the city off my back for making a big mess in the street. Or I pay the delivery folks or a 3rd party to dump it in the street then haul it around to the back of the house. So I'm back to having my own trailer.
]]>I've not seen such in the US either. U-Haul will rent you all sizes from big foot locker to small room sized trailers. But they are all enclosed. And you get to sign in blood that if you screw up the load and wreak it is totally your fault. Doesn't stop them from being sued but at least they can dump the costs onto you.
Open smallish trailers, I'm guessing, are a liability issue for rental firms. I've seen all kinds of dangerous crazy things and loads by people who have no idea what they are doing and things are just waiting to fall over the side or back. I suspect the rental places here are told by their insurance companies, "NO!".
Buy all kinds of places will sell you smaller open trailers for $1000 to $5000 depending. All you have to do is figure out where to store it. I have one. But I have 1/6 acre back yard and can keep it in the back corner.
]]>2: https://trailermedic.co.uk/trailer-hire/, see the 'GD84' column on the right hand side.
]]>And, to anonymouse: ha, ha! Even large houses (such as mine) rarely have that amount of free space, and a trailer of that weight needs more than an ordinary car licence (and more than an ordinary car!) Suitable trailers ARE available, but there is still the storage space problem.
]]>They absolutely do not. To both assertions. 1400kg is the maximum weight; a Fiat 500 isn't going to be able to manage it, but Skoda claim their 1.4L petrol Octavia can tow 1500.
]]>Even for you? It wouldn't surprise me that people who passed their test recently can't do it, but I know my licence lets me drive/tow some bloody big things up to several tonnes. Not quite sure how big because it's never come up. I can't remember if I personally ever had to tow anything heavy for work, which would have been before the big reduction in the amount of extras you automatically get with a car licence that came in in the 90s, but I do remember that the ordinary car licence you got back then was good enough that we all could tow diggers and things around if we needed to, and there weren't any people who weren't allowed to do it for lack of a potent enough licence.
]]>I can't remember what my car is rated for, but it's a lot less than 1400 Kg. However, a Skoda Fabia is not a large car.
]]>www.gumtree.com.au but they have "improved" the site to make it impossible to share search links without full tracking. Type "man with a van" into search, pick a location (in Australia, obviously) and away you go.
]]>Incidentally, the 3.5 ton limit is gross - vehicle, occupants, luggage, trailer and contents - and it would be easy to exceed the licence limit on (for example) a new high-end Skoda Octavia without reaching the vehicle's limits.
This is all rather diverging from my original point, which is that hiring is very often not feasible, and storage space is a big problem.
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