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  1. 19th November 2011, 08:47 AM #1
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    Trek trailers auction in Darwin

    Hi there,

    Has anyone purchased a trailer from Manhiem in Darwin and freighted it to Melbourne? How much do they sell for up there?

    I see there are quite a few sitting up there at the moment. I have family up there who could be helpful for a procurement project, but am pretty sure freighting down south would be the killer cost.

    Is it legal to hitch 2 or 3 (or more) to each other and "wagon train" them down?

    Any ideas/comments on this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DT-P38 View Post
    Hi there,

    Has anyone purchased a trailer from Manhiem in Darwin and freighted it to Melbourne? How much do they sell for up there?

    I see there are quite a few sitting up there at the moment. I have family up there who could be helpful for a procurement project, but am pretty sure freighting down south would be the killer cost.

    Is it legal to hitch 2 or 3 (or more) to each other and "wagon train" them down?

    Any ideas/comments on this?

    Dave
    it would cost you about $300 on ceva so long as you didnt make it a priority item

    no its not legal.
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    Dave,

    I'm not sure but I think the reserve on these trailers is about $300.
    You've got to pick your auction as they could get up to $1600.
    I was thinking of going through this process a few months back. I had a truck priced up. $2,000 to bring as many as could fit on a semi from Townsville to Melbourne. Unloading had to be organised down here.
    How serious are you?
    Give me a call and we can have a chat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DT-P38 View Post
    Is it legal to hitch 2 or 3 (or more) to each other and "wagon train" them down?

    Any ideas/comments on this?

    Dave
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    no its not legal.
    dave are you sure you can hitch two trailers together?? i wouldn't have thought so......
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    Kelvin,

    Re-read Daves reply.
    It is not legal.

    English can be a difficult language.
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    Quote Originally Posted by weeds

    dave are you sure you can hitch two trailers together?? i wouldn't have thought so......
    Pretty sure they are built for that type of multi-trailer use (in military service) but I wasn't sure if it was possible to do in civi service with permit or some special (maybe club type) exemption...

    Mick, definitlwy want one, but have school movie night with the kids now. I will give you a ring mid morning tomorrow if that's ok? Perhaps we can work something out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blknight.aus View Post
    no its not legal.
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    dave are you sure you can hitch two trailers together?? i wouldn't have thought so......
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    Kelvin,

    Re-read Daves reply.
    It is not legal.

    English can be a difficult language.
    Maybe it was the lack of an apostrophe in the contraction that Dave used for "it is" in his original post that confused him.

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    and the $300 was how much it would cost you after you had acquired one to get it sent from point a to point b on the back of a truck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DT-P38 View Post
    Pretty sure they are built for that type of multi-trailer use (in military service) but I wasn't sure if it was possible to do in civi service with permit or some special (maybe club type) exemption...

    Mick, definitlwy want one, but have school movie night with the kids now. I will give you a ring mid morning tomorrow if that's ok? Perhaps we can work something out.
    There is a fellow near me who has a few Ex-Army trailers. It's very interesting wandering around his place and looking at what he has got. He tells you all about them.
    On the No.5's (and these are No.5 trailers except for the Haulmark one tonne cargo), he tells of stories of the people who maintain these trailers towing trains of twenty of these around the workshop yards.
    If you intend on driving up to Darwin and picking one or two of these up, I can lend you my hitch and adaptor cable.



    If you want to collect a few more, perhaps this would be the go. I think you'd get four on it. Two on the tandem and another two upside down on those.


    The other problem is if you get several, where to store them? If you have that sorted, could you pick up the one ton for me please? I could do with another one or two.

    You may be better off waiting for a RAAF Track tactical to surface. They go for between $1,200 AND $6,000.


    Or perhaps a 750kg Haulmark. a few of those were auctioned off a month or so ago.
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