Patent ID: 7909387

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a first front flatbed trailer section; a second front flatbed trailer section; and a rear flatbed trailer section which is movably mountable on the first flatbed section to move relative thereto in forward and rearward directions between a plurality of locking positions to provide an extendable flatbed trailer configuration and which is removable from the first flatbed section and alternately mountable on the second flatbed section to provide an alternate flatbed trailer configuration; wherein the extendable trailer configuration has a fully extended configuration in a rearmost of the locking positions and a fully retracted configuration in a frontmost of the locking positions; the trailer in the extendable trailer configuration has front and rear ends defining therebetween a first length in the fully retracted configuration; the trailer in the alternate trailer configuration has one and only one locking position in which the second and rear flatbed sections are secured to one another and engagement between the second flatbed section and the rear flatbed section terminates adjacent the frontmost locking position; and the trailer in the alternate trailer configuration has front and rear ends defining therebetween a second length which is equivalent to the first length.