Patent ID: 7534083

Claim:
A trailer comprising: a hitch connector arranged for connection to a towing vehicle which is arranged to tow the trailer; a deck frame including decking material on a top side of the deck frame arranged for bearing a load thereon; a base frame supported on a plurality of wheels so as to be arranged for rolling movement along the ground; a set of fenders supported in fixed relation on the base frame and arranged to extend over the plurality of wheels; a linkage supporting the deck frame on the plurality of wheels so as to be arranged for relative movement between a lowered transport position and a raised transport position; the deck frame being spaced above the ground such that the decking material of the deck frame is spaced below a height of the wheels and the fenders in the lowered transport position; the deck frame being spaced above the ground above the height of the wheels such that a top side of the decking material is flush with a top side of the fenders in the raised transport position; the linkage supporting the deck frame such that the deck frame is movable relative to the wheels upwardly and forwardly from one of the transport positions towards an over-centre location and such that the deck frame is movable relative to the wheels downwardly and forwardly from the over-centre location to the other one of the transport positions; and load supports supporting the deck frame on the wheels so as to be arranged to bear the load on the deck frame for rolling movement along the ground on the wheels in both the lowered transport position and the raised transport position.