Compact Double Axle Braked Closed Body Trailer

Everything else in this part of the range stops at 750 kg and runs without brakes. The braked tandem luggage trailer does neither. It is rated at 1120 kg gross vehicle mass, it runs a run in braking system, and it carries 800 kg of payload on a 320 kg tare, which is more than double what a luggage trailer will legally take.

Why the braked tandem luggage trailer is braked

Braking is not an upgrade here, it is a legal consequence. Once a trailer is rated above 750 kg it has to be braked, and this one is rated at 1120 kg. The manufacturer answers that with a run in system and two 700 kg axles rather than a single axle, sprung on four sets of three blade leaves. The result behaves very differently on the road to a light luggage trailer: it settles rather than skips over corrugation, and it does not push the tow vehicle at the bottom of a pass. It is also, on the published axle figures, a twin axle unit rather than a single axle one.

Published specifications

Manufacturer figures for the base configuration, with brakes, nosecone and spare wheel, quoted as published.

The two configurations we list

• Base trailer with brakes, nosecone and spare wheel: 320 kg tare, 1120 kg gross vehicle mass, 800 kg payload, 1085 mm overall height.
• Extension frame and roof rack: 320 kg tare, 1167 kg gross vehicle mass, 847 kg payload, 1565 mm overall height with 1040 mm of side height.

Note what the second configuration does to the numbers, because it is the opposite of the usual pattern. On most trailers a fitment adds tare and quietly takes that mass out of your legal payload. Here the manufacturer publishes the tare as unchanged at 320 kg and lifts the gross vehicle mass by 47 kg, so the published payload rises from 800 kg to 847 kg. The rear door in the extension frame and the roof rack above it also change how you load rather than only how much.

Payload, mass and staying road legal

Eight hundred kilograms in the base build is a serious load, and it takes this trailer out of the simple unbraked bracket entirely. Above 750 kg a trailer must be braked, which is exactly why the run in system is fitted. Your obligations do not stop there: your tow vehicle has a rated towing mass for braked trailers that is often different to its unbraked figure, and it is usually the vehicle that limits you. Read the requirements in the National Road Traffic Act and confirm licence class with your testing station rather than with a dealer.

What 800 kg actually buys you

A body 2060 mm long and 1180 mm wide with a 620 mm nosecone is not vast, so the payload rating usually matters more than the volume. It is the trailer for dense loads: tools and spares, bagged feed, tiles and cement, generator and fuel, or a long trip where the family kit and the water together would put a lighter trailer over its plate. The dust and waterproof lid opens to 70 degrees and locks, and the tailgate folds down and lifts out for loading and cleaning.

Where it sits against the unbraked models

The 2.1m luggage trailer is the natural comparison and it makes the point well: similar money, similar body length, but 470 kg of payload against 800 kg, and no brakes. Choose the luggage trailer for depth and camping volume. Choose this one when the scale you care about is the weighbridge. The rest of the family sits on our single axle closed body trailers page.

Fitted as standard

• Body of corrosion resistant electro and zinc galvanised sheet steel.
• Nosecone and one spare wheel in 155 by 13 inch.
• Run in braking system on two 700 kg axles.
• Alko coupler and long life axles with larger bearings.
• Lockable dust and waterproof lid opening to 70 degrees.
• Removable fold down tailgate, ring holders inside and protected tail lights.

Closed body trailer delivery in South Africa

Specifications