Talbert Manufacturing lowbed trailer hauls oversized equipment

For more than a decade, Talbert Manufacturing, Rensselaer, New Jersey, has manufactured its 55CC close-coupled lowbed trailer. The trailer features a low deck height, high capacity rating and a removable gooseneck, designed for safe and easy loading of oversized equipment, including excavators and dozers.

“Our 55CC is our most popular, best-in-class lowbed trailer,” says Troy Geisler, Talbert Manufacturing vice president of sales and marketing. “This trailer’s features maximize operator versatility, which makes it an ideal addition to virtually any equipment fleet. The innovative design continues to provide a durable, safe choice for equipment movers.”

The trailer features Talbert’s 18-inch loaded deck height and a 6-inch ground clearance for easy navigation of oversized loads under bridges and through tunnels without the need for rerouting.

The trailer’s rear deck and bridge section feature a wide bucket well arrangement, designed to allow for maximum space to lower the excavator bucket and stick into. The recessed boom well’s design coupled with the deck’s low bucket well is designed to maximize space for positioning the excavator’s bucket and stick.

The trailer’s 26-foot deck has a capacity rating for half the deck length, allowing operators to haul 55 tons in 13 feet. Connections for a close-coupled, pin-on fourth axle provide further distribution of the payload, when required.

The 55CC features Talbert’s four-cylinder removable hydraulic gooseneck that is designed to maximize lift capacity and load height. The trailer’s 108-inch swing radius is designed to allow haulers to distribute the weight from the drive axles to the steer axle of the tractor.

Talbert constructs its main beams and side beams using a 12-inch deep I-beam fabricated from high strength T1 steel with a minimum yield strength of 100,000 pounds per square inch. The 2-inch Apitong flooring provides high strength for long-term durability under heavy loads. Other standard features include removable outriggers, a manual exhaust valve, recessed load-bearing bolsters and a 12-volt LED sealed light system.

The 55CC trailer comes standard with six tie-down rings on each side of the deck and eight tie-down rings between the deck’s main beams. Two sections of expanded metal baskets are mounted under the center of the deck to store chain and other items required for the job. 

Talbert trailers come standard with Valspar R-Cure 800 paint designed to prevent corrosion. For additional protection from the elements customers have the ability to upgrade the primer from alkyd to a zinc rich primer or Valspar’s.