Using a Car trailer

I would put that down to being a Ute and no weight V's car trailer with car going down a hill. The trailer will want to overtake you, you put on brake and then you overturn, lose control or run into a bank or oncoming car. Every car has a towing capacity and if you exceed it the above happens.

Not nescessarily being a ute having no weight.
The original post said the car was on the trailer backwards, which if the commodore had it's engine installed, would have made the trailer tail heavy, and the invetable is sure to happen, as it did.
It is likely that if the commodore had been loaded front first, with the weight on the trailer where it should have been, the trailer would have likely been more stable and the accident may not have occured.
Of course what I don't know, is why the commodore was put on the trailer rear first.
I did witness recently, a Holden 1t ute on a car trailer which was loaded front first, being towed by a Holden Crewman, 95% of the time, likley to remain stable. So why did it go pear shaped, whip across the road and turn itself over? The engine for the 1tonner was not in the engine bay, but sitting on the back of the 1tonners tray. As it approached me, I could see it being whippy and could only think this was going to end in tears, I moved that far left, my left wheels were off the bitumen in the gravel, I moved back fully onto the bitumen only to look in my rearview mirror to see a heap of dust and combination going sideways, upways downways and lots of tears (only about 250-300m after we crossed each other). I'm by no means an expert, but I'd suggest the combination was unstable because the loading and weight distribution on the trailer was poor.

Cheers,
Dion.

That sounds pretty good, I actually have about 35 klm but I was thinking it would be over $300.. Will do some ringing around tomorrow. Cheers don

I agree - a Commodore will not go on most hire trailers legally. Trailers and load weighing more than 2 t require breakaway breaks and most hire places are reluctant to fit them - hence the 1200kg load limit which with the 800kg trailer weight brings the total load up to 2t.

Now the trailer can physically carry the car (they were doing it up until the breakaway brake rule came in) but other than a really small car they cannot legally be used.

However some places do have the correct trailers etc but they are very hard to find.

Garry

Workhorse is correct - all the hire trailers I could find from the servos on the northside of Brisbane had a load limit of 1200 Kg (or maybe it was 1250kg) and a max speed towing of 80KPH. If you break these conditions and have an accident you have no insurance on the trailer. It was only a bit extra for me to get a tilttray and have them take all the repsonsibility. If you shop around and contact some private tilttray operators you can usually negotiate a good price if you are flexible in the timing of pickup - they can slot your job in when they are a bit quiet.
Cheers