Discover Gooseneck Trailers at Jayhawk Trailers - Serving Denver Metro Area

The hitch is not what decides it. Weight and how you use the trailer are. Colorado's intrastate commercial motor vehicle rules under C.R.S. 42-4-235 start at a combined 16,001 pounds, which is where USDOT registration and commercial inspection requirements begin for business use inside the state.

Driver licensing class is set separately by weight thresholds, and personal, non-commercial use is treated differently from business use. Before you buy a big gooseneck, confirm your exact truck and trailer combination with the Colorado DMV or Colorado State Patrol. We would rather you get a straight answer from them than a guess from a salesperson.

Go gooseneck when you need more than roughly 14,000 pounds of trailer, a tighter turning radius, or a load that has to sit stable on I-70 grades. Putting the pivot point over the rear axle takes sway out of the equation and moves tongue weight into the truck bed where the frame can carry it.

Stay with a bumper pull if you want to tow with more than one vehicle, need the truck bed free, or are hauling under that weight. A gooseneck commits your truck to a bed-mounted hitch.

We stock goosenecks from Load Trail, Diamond T, MAXX-D, Southland Trailers, Big Tex Trailers, and Norstar. Units sit at both locations, our Commerce City lot and the Truck Center in Fort Lupton, so filter by location on the inventory above before you make the drive.

Flatbed deckover, tilt, dump, and equipment configurations all show up in gooseneck. Tell us what you are hauling and we will narrow it down fast.

If you are using the trailer for business inside Colorado and your combination is rated over 16,001 pounds, yes. C.R.S. 42-4-235 sets that intrastate threshold, and Colorado issues the number with a CO suffix for intrastate-only operations. A three-quarter-ton truck under a loaded gooseneck clears 16,001 pounds without much effort.

Landscapers, excavators, and equipment haulers get caught by this constantly because they assume the federal 10,001-pound interstate rule is the only one that exists.

Yes. C.R.S. 42-4-223 requires brakes on all wheels of any trailer with a gross weight of 3,000 pounds or more, and every gooseneck we sell is far past that empty. Tandem and triple-axle goosenecks come with electric brakes on each axle from the factory.

Make sure the brake controller in your truck is rated for the number of axles you are pulling. A controller sized for a two-axle trailer will not hold a loaded triple on a descent.

Two things bite people. First, CDOT's Traction Law runs September 1 through May 31 on I-70 between Dotsero and Morrison, and it applies to your tow vehicle. Second, engines lose power with altitude: Ford derates gross combined weight rating about 2% per 1,000 feet, roughly 10% by the time you are at Denver elevation and worse at the Eisenhower Tunnel.

Descend in a low gear, use the trailer brakes deliberately instead of riding the truck's, and give yourself more following distance than you think you need.

Yes. Colorado titles and registers all trailers, with 60 days from the purchase date to get it done and a $10 per month late fee after that. Registration is based on the trailer's empty weight, so bring your paperwork to your county motor vehicle office.

We send you out the door with the documents you need so the counter visit is straightforward.