Any advice on 7x14 14K dump trailer for my new truck?

[Lineman North Florida]

Well even though the OP has bought his trailer I'll throw in my thoughts.
I've looked and thought about dump trailers and came to the conclusion the one I'd want is the deckover with the fold down sides so it could be loaded from the side with materials on pallets or anything using forks.
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Lou, Who makes that trailer?

 

[Peter 315]

Lou, Who makes that trailer?

Looks like a Maxx-d..https://maxxdtrailers.com/d9x-96-deckover-dump-trailer

 

[LouNY]

Lou, Who makes that trailer?

Yes, it's a maxxd unit there are a few others that make them. Diamond C, and Iron bull also.
https://maxxdtrailers.com/d9x-96-deckover-dump-trailer

 

[Fxfymn413]

My Iron Bull has a telescopic ram which I like very much. But, if you are planning to install a hydraulic jack you will need to add another hydraulic pump since the pump for a telescopic ram only supplies pressure to the up side of the piston and uses gravity for the lowering side.

I used an inexpensive pump and jack which allowed me to add the jack for around $300.00 The additional pump easily fit into the existing tongue box.

 

[In.the.Piñons]

Gotta say I'm pretty happy with the truck/trailer. So far I've picked up 15 yards of mulch x 2, which would be close to the ~11,000lbs capacity of the trailer, per load.

The truck towed it no problems. Like I said, I have a 4 mile climb @ 25mph which gains about 2,000ft. The truck was pulling it in 2/3/4th gear around 2,000 rpm. Not going to win any races, but I'm not holding anyone up either.

The round trip yielded around 8.2-8.4 mpg. Not too bad as 85 is under $3.00/gal here.

 

[dodge man]

I want a dump trailer but when I do the math it doesn’t pencil out. I just had roughly 70 tons of gravel delivered. Cost me a little less than $1400 and the cost of delivery was about $600.