Travel Trailer Towing in Orlando.

Orlando, FL

Campers That Need a Different Truck.

A lot of travel trailer calls out of Orlando sound alike. Somebody bought a longer camper than their half-ton should ever pull. The truck that always towed it got sold, or it is sitting at a shop waiting on parts. Meanwhile the trailer still has to reach a storage lot, a service bay, a campground site or the person who just bought it. We hitch it to a truck rated for the load and take it there, and your own hitch drops out of the question.

First, the distance. The yard is in Palm Bay, and Orlando is roughly 71 miles away from it. That makes every Orlando trailer move a booked job. You call, dispatch writes the trailer down, and you get a window on a day that suits the storage office, the shop or the buyer at the far end. For a camper heading into storage next week, a booked window is what you wanted anyway.

Our trucks already make the Orlando trip for heavier work. The Orlando service area page lists motorhomes and buses among the jobs worth that drive, and travel trailers sit on the hitch side of the same RV work: smaller than a coach, yet heavy enough that the wrong truck turns a short move into a long afternoon.

If the Trailer Is Sitting in Traffic

Call 911 first. A tow vehicle that dies on I-4 or one of the expressways with a camper behind it is a hazard to everyone passing, and the police need to hear about it before any tow company does. Get people out and well away from the lanes.

After that, be practical about the clock. A truck based closer to Orlando will likely reach you well before one of ours could make the drive up from Palm Bay, and for a live lane you should take the closer truck. Once the trailer has been pulled clear and sits somewhere safe, in a lot or a yard or a shop, call us about where it goes next. That second move, planned and unhurried, is the work we are set up for out there.

Prep Before Hitch Day

A trailer that is ready when the truck pulls up hitches quickly and rides quietly. Most of the prep is what you would do before a camping trip, only a little more thorough:

• Slides all the way in, with the slide locks set if your model has them.
• Stabilizer jacks cranked up and the pads stowed so nothing drags.
• Awning rolled in and locked. An awning that opens at highway speed usually takes its arms with it.
• Propane shut off at the tanks.
• Fridge door latched, cabinets closed, and loose things moved to the floor or the shower.
• The breakaway cable free and within reach, so the driver can clip it to the truck.

If one of those will not cooperate, tell dispatch before the day. A slide that will not retract leaves the trailer wider than it should be on the road, and a tongue jack that will not crank changes how the hitch gets made. Both are solvable. Neither is something you want to find out about with the truck idling in your driveway.

What Dispatch Asks About the Trailer

Matching the truck to the trailer happens on the phone. Have these in front of you when you call:

The brakes question gets skipped more than any other. A travel trailer of any real size depends on its own brakes to stop straight, and a corroded plug or a dead brake connection will hold up a move until somebody sorts it out. Lights are the same story. We would much rather hear about it on the call than find it at the hitch.

If yours couples in a truck bed on a kingpin, it is a fifth wheel, and the setup is different enough to have its own page on fifth-wheel towing. Dispatch asks nearly the same questions, with the hitch details swapped.

Where Orlando Trailers Usually Land

Storage lots are the most common drop. Give dispatch the gate code and the office hours, and tell us whether the space is a pull-through or needs the trailer backed in, because that decides how much room the driver needs at the far end.

Service shops come next, usually for a roof, an axle or brakes that need work on a lift. A shop wants the trailer during its open hours, so we plan the window around theirs. Campground sites have their own check-in rules worth reading before you book. And a new owner needs to know when to expect the trailer and who is handing it over.

If a boat is part of the same household move, boat transport around Orlando runs much the same way, on the boat’s own trailer. For how we handle campers back home in Brevard, the main travel trailer towing page has the rest, and the Orange County page covers the county around the city.

When you have the numbers together, request a tow with the trailer details written out, or call (321) 728-1869 and talk it through. A person answers at any hour, and the gallery shows the pink trucks you will be watching for on the day.