Patent ID: 8104843

Claim:
A trailer for the transportation by road of cargo, such as one or more containers and in particular one or more sea containers, the trailer comprising: a trailer frame; a tipping frame; a lifting means acting on the trailer frame and on the tipping frame; wherein the trailer frame comprises a front zone, provided with a coupling member which is provided for coupling to a tractor unit coupling, such as the plate, provided on a tractor unit, which front zone is located on coupling to a tractor unit at least partially above said tractor unit; a rear zone provided with one or more, in particular two or three, sets of wheels; an intermediate zone connecting the front zone and the rear zone; wherein the tipping frame extends along the trailer frame and, in the rear zone, is fastened to the trailer frame so as to hinge about a tipping axle in such a way that the tipping frame can be brought, using the lifting means, from a horizontal position to an inclined position in order to pick up a container from the ground and place it on the tipping frame or to lower a container from the tipping frame onto the ground; wherein the trailer frame comprises a central longitudinal beam carrying, in the front zone of the trailer frame, the coupling member; wherein the tipping frame is defined by two lateral longitudinal beams; and wherein when the tipping frame is horizontal, the central longitudinal beam is submerged, in any case in the front zone, between the lateral longitudinal beams.