Hoss
Cole Hartmann
Cole's world starts where bumper hitches give up. He's spent years around heavy hauling, ag iron, and the kind of loads where the ratings math is a legal document, and he brings that weight-room seriousness to every gooseneck, tilt, and pintle page he writes. His recurring sermon is the combination, the trailer, the truck, the hitch, and the license all have to agree before anything rolls, and the lowest number always wins. Hoss writes for the buyer stepping up in class, the hotshot runner, the rancher, the contractor whose machines outgrew the 14K world, and he'd rather talk you down a class than watch you buy capacity your truck can't legally use.
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Gooseneck, tilt, pintle, and hauling
Articles by Hoss
Selected from their beatGooseneck Equipment Configurations Explained.
The equipment deck in the gooseneck family, how it compares against the flatbed, deckover, and dump neck configurations, sizing, and buying checks.
Read article → PintlePintle Tag Trailers Explained.
How pintle tag trailers carry heavy decks behind the ring-and-hook, tag geometry, the fleet standard, classes, specs, and buying checks.
Read article → GooseneckGooseneck Deckover Trailers Explained.
How gooseneck deckovers pair full-width decks with the neck's capacity, hotshot standards, sizing, specs, and what to check before buying.
Read article → TiltEquipment Tilt Trailers Explained.
How equipment tilt trailers load machines without ramps, partial-tilt decks, securement on the pivot, sizes, specs, and what to check before buying.
Read article → TiltLow-Profile Tilt Trailers Explained.
How low-profile tilt trailers achieve the gentlest loading angles made, deck height plus tilt geometry, sizes, specs, and what to check before buying.
Read article → PintleHeavy-Duty Pintle Trailers Explained.
How heavy-duty pintle trailers serve the air-brake commercial tier, 30K-plus tag classes, glad hands, compliance, specs, and buying checks.
Read article → GooseneckGooseneck Trailers. The Complete Guide.
The complete buyer's guide to new gooseneck trailers, covering the hitch advantage, capacity classes, deck styles, brands, truck requirements, and pricing.
Read article → PintlePintle Equipment Trailers Explained.
How pintle equipment trailers carry machines behind the ring, deck and ramp specs at severity, securement, classes, and buying checks.
Read article → TiltTilt Trailers. The Complete Guide.
The complete buyer's guide to new tilt trailers, covering gravity and hydraulic tilt systems, loading angles, sizes, brands, towing, and pricing.
Read article → TiltGravity Tilt Trailers Explained.
How gravity tilt trailers work, the balance point, cushion cylinders, latch discipline, sizes, specs, and what to check before buying.
Read article → GooseneckGooseneck Dump Configurations Explained.
The dump body in the gooseneck family, how it compares against the flatbed, deckover, and equipment neck configurations, sizing, and buying checks.
Read article → ComparisonTilt Deck vs. Ramps. Which Loading System to Buy.
Tilt trailer or stationary ramps, the honest comparison. Loading angles, solo operation, maintenance, price, and the machines that decide it.
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