Construction trailer

A trailer is a specially designed trailers for the transport by trucks, tractors and construction machinery. The trailer consists of a conventional trailer chassis on which there is a build a wooden cabin or today's conventional sandwich panels. The counterpart for construction sites to waters, the ship building yard.

As an umbrella structure for Mobile Home is in Germany today is a round roof usual.

The trailer has its name from the predominant use at worksites, where he is a mobile shelter for the construction workers employed there. On construction sites, construction trailer used as dressing room, lounge, social room and tool storage. The interior of a construction trailer is limited in original condition for seating, a kiln and lockers or cabinets.

Characteristic of a trailer is next to the mostly gray color, the externally mounted stove pipe with cover. Due to the design may trailer may only work a maximum of 25 km / h moves on public roads, old models not street legal even with only 10 km / h For construction companies, whose business catchment area is nationally, the slow-moving trailer are too inflexible, so it is also called quick runners who may be admitted to 100 km / h by the requisite elaborate chassis cost, however, many times over.

Although he very economical, especially on small and mobile construction sites - because flexible - is the traditional Mobile Home has been partially supplanted by more modern, general-purpose containers that are equipped differently depending on the purpose. As long as you need a crane for loading and unloading of container specialized trucks and possibly, Mobile Home to be able to maintain in the future wherever the complicated delivery / collection of a container would not pay off.

Other uses

The most popular trailer in Germany is likely to be out of the children's television series dandelion. Only lived Peter Lustig in the show in a converted trailer, now it's Fritz Fuchs.

In the so-called Mobile Home Mobile Home scene be converted into dwellings. Often they are gathered on so-called Mobile Home spaces. Residents are mostly young dropouts or students who (often with wood or coal stove ) love the freedom of such a special and inexpensive apartment.

Other uses are as a converted trailer toilet trailer, mobile sales stand, party room or basis for electronic assemblies (eg for mobile mobile stations at major events or in case of disaster )

In rural areas, young people use disused Bauwägen happy as a meeting place and form a kind of youth center.