About Custom Trailers

Custom Trailers is a long-form editorial publication for people who specify, build, register, tow and service trailers in Australia. The old customtrailers.com.au sat in the custom-trailer and utility-trailer trade. The Wayback Machine had nothing usable left, so we rebuilt the title as the magazine the domain always implied: a workshop desk, not a yard listing.

What we are

We publish guides. A typical piece is more than a thousand words, written in Australian English, and aimed at a reader who will use a figure on a plate or a drain hole in a chassis. We organise that work into six topic hubs: buying, builds, types, regulations, towing and maintenance.

What we are not

We are not a manufacturer, a dealer group or a classifieds board. We do not take a cut of a trailer sale. We do not publish thin product round-ups. When a commercially arranged placement is accepted it is labelled, and any paid outbound link carries rel="sponsored". Read the editorial standards and the guest guidelines.

The desk

• Riley Hart

  Editor, compliance and buying

  Writes the plate, ADR and quote-desk pieces. Background in light-vehicle standards reading and long-form trade journalism.

• Morgan Blake

  Builds and materials

  Covers steel, aluminium, galvanising, floors and looms. Spends more time in fabrication sheds than in press offices.

• Sam Keating

  Towing and types

  Boat ramps, horse floats, plant tags and the combinations that actually leave the kerb. Based between the Hume and the coast.

• Jordan Voss

  Maintenance and field notes

  Bearings, rust, service intervals and the jobs that keep last year’s trailer legal this year.

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