Patent ID: 7178823

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a transport vehicle having a rear end; a tow bat attached to the rear end of the vehicle; a bed formed in the rear end of the vehicle; a base seated on the bed supporting a load-bearing platform at an elevated location opposing the bed forming a trailer storage space therebetween and an opening into the storage space at the rear end of the vehicle; a trailer including: a trailer chassis having an upstream end, a downstream end, an upper face for receiving a load, and an opposing lower face, a plurality of wheel supports attached to the trailer chassis, a ground engaging wheel rotatably mounted to each of the wheel supports, and a drawbar attached to the trailer and projecting forwardly of the upstream end to a free end carrying a trailer hitch adapted to be hitched to the tow bat for towing the trailer chassis behind the vehicle; the trailer positionable in a stored position comprising the trailer in the trailer storage space with the upper face of the trailer chassis facing the load-bearing platform and the lower face of the trailer chassis facing the bed.