All this talk about trailers brings back bad memories of a gig I had years ago back in Australia. It was a one off thing and the only thing we could get to carry the gear the 300 miles we had to drive was an enclosed trailer. It was packed tight with the PA and all the stage gear, but that was good because it couldn't move around. All went well on the trip up there. We did the gig and it was the trip back that everything went wrong.

We were hundreds of miles from home and as we crossed a railway track on the main interstate we heard a strange sound and looked through the back window of the car shocked to see the trailer launching into the air. It broke away from the hitch and bounced end to end down the interstate tearing apart and spilling gear onto the highway. Holy Crap !!!!!!

We screeched to a stop and raced into the highway to pull the equipment off the road. Somehow there was no traffic around or we probably would have died trying to save the gear. Apart from some dents and a mic stand through a speaker cone everything survived. I guess the tight pack prevented most of the damage.

But it was a public holiday 100s of miles out in the countryside so there we were sitting on the side of the interstate with a pile of amps, guitars and speakers and no way of getting them home. A miserable end to the gig. All of a sudden a pickup pulled up and 2 local boys had driven down when they heard the BANG thinking someone had been hit by a train. They were stock car enthusiasts used to welding wrecks back together every weekend. So they took the wrecked trailer away for a couple of hours, welded it back together well enough to last the trip home. They saved us. The trailer was dumped once we got home but it got all the gear home again.

I just never felt good about trailers again.