Patent ID: 7287947

Claim:
In a trailer having a front loading end, a trailer bed, and a rear wheeled end, the trailer having a number of longitudinally aligned trailer bed support rails, and a front end assembly, the front end assembly having a pick up shaft arrangement, a hitch contact area, and opposing ramp sections, the improvement comprising a tapered box beam extending from the pickup shaft arrangement, linking to a center portion of an end of the trailer bed, the center portion spaced from sides of the trailer bed, the tapered box beam including at least two tapered box beam rails, an end of each tapered box beam rail aligned with a respective one of the pair of the trailer bed support rails in the center portion, the box beam using the at least two tapered box beam rails as outer side walls thereof, the box beam having top and bottom portions, the top portion including the hitch contact area, the top and bottom portions terminating at the outer side walls that are spaced inward of the sides of the trailer bed, and a portion of the box beam situated between the hitch contact portion and the end of the trailer bed.