Hartswater, Northern Cape
Heavy-duty trailers and caravans, stocked in Hartswater. Delivered nationwide.
We supply fuel bowsers, utility, livestock, car and closed body trailers and caravans from our yard in the Northern Cape, and deliver them to every province in South Africa.
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Nine ranges, one yard. Pick the category that matches the load and the tow vehicle.
Caravans
Caravans are towable living units with sleeping, cooking and storage built in, sized from compact two-berth vans to full off-road tourers. TRAILERS SA supplies caravans from Hartswater in the Northern Cape and delivers them to every province in South Africa.A caravan is a different purchase to a trailer, and it is worth being clear about why. A utility trailer is judged on payload and deck size. A caravan is judged on how it tows, how it sleeps, and how it holds together on a gravel road at the end of a long day. Mass still matters, but so does the layout, the water capacity, and whether the chassis under the bodywork was built for tar or for the Kalahari.South African buyers split fairly cleanly into three groups. Touring caravans spend their lives on tar between the coast and the Highveld, and they are bought on interior space and towing weight. Off-road caravans carry a heavier chassis, independent suspension and more ground clearance, because they are going to Botswana or up a pass with a corrugated surface. Compact and teardrop vans suit people who want a bed and a kitchen without moving up to a bigger tow vehicle.Towing law is the part people get wrong most often. The caravan GVM decides the licence code you need and whether the van must be braked. Your tow vehicle rated towing capacity caps what you may legally pull, whatever the caravan is rated at. Both numbers matter and the lower one wins.Our caravan range is being built now. Tell us the layout, the berth count and where you tow, and we will quote from current and incoming stock. Free nationwide delivery applies over R20,000 with code TSA26.
View rangeCaravansMobile Chillers & Freezers
Mobile chillers are insulated, refrigerated trailer bodies that hold a set temperature on shore power or a generator. TRAILERS SA supplies chiller units from 500 kg capacity, running 0 to 8 degrees, for butchers, caterers, farm packhouses and event operators right across South Africa.A mobile chiller solves a problem that a cold box and a bag of ice cannot. Once product has to hold temperature for longer than a few hours, or has to travel, or has to sit on a site for a weekend, you need an actual refrigeration circuit and enough insulation to keep the compressor from running flat out. Seventy five millimetres of polyurethane in the panel is the number that makes that work in a South African summer.The units are built as a sealed insulated box on a galvanised chassis, lined in stainless with an aluminium checker plate floor and an internal drain so the whole interior can be washed down. An air-cooled condenser sits outside the body, a digital thermostat holds the setpoint, and a high-temperature audible alarm tells you the door has been left open before the stock is a write-off. Temperature reads out inside and outside.Power is the decision that catches people. The standard fit is 220 volt shore power, which is fine at a packhouse or a venue with a plug. If the unit is going to a farm gate, a game auction or an outdoor event, specify a generator set with it. Capacities run 500, 1000 and 1500 kg, and remote temperature monitoring is worth having if the load is worth more than the trailer.Ask us for the duty cycle you actually need before you choose a capacity. A unit sized for peak load runs less, lasts longer and costs less to run than one that is working at its limit every day. Free nationwide delivery applies over R20,000 with code TSA26.
3 modelsMobile Chillers & FreezersFuel & Water Bowsers
A fuel bowser trailer is a towable tank that takes diesel or water to the machine instead of bringing the machine to a pump. TRAILERS SA builds bowsers from 500 to 3,000 litres in three tank materials, on axles rated from 750 kg up to 3,000 kg GVM.The tank material is the first decision, and it is driven by what goes inside it. Mild steel, pressed from 2.5 mm hot-rolled plate, is the workhorse: it takes knocks on a gravel road, it welds and repairs anywhere in the country, and it is the cheapest litre you can buy. 3CR12 stainless costs more and earns it back where corrosion is the enemy, which means potable water, coastal air, or any load that has to stay clean. Double-layer polyurethane weighs least, cannot rust at all, and holds up under Northern Cape sun that turns cheap plastic chalky inside two seasons.The second decision is the running gear, and capacity settles it for you. A 500 litre tank sits happily on a single 750 kg non-braked axle behind a bakkie. From 1,000 litres up, a full tank weighs more than a tonne on its own, so we move to a 1,500 kg braked square axle with a two-ton braked coupler. At 2,000 litres and above the trailer runs twin braked axles on a 100 x 50 mm U-channel chassis, with a damped galvanised cast-iron coupler and a 60 mm double jockey wheel, because stopping distance matters more than anything else on a loaded tanker.Farms use these for refuelling tractors at the edge of a land. Contractors park one on site for the week. Mines and municipalities run them for dust suppression and water carting. If the tank never needs to move, the static tanks and stands section covers gravity-fed standby storage from 1,000 to 5,000 litres instead.
View rangeFuel & Water BowsersUtility & Cargo Trailers
Utility and cargo trailers are open-deck trailers with drop sides, built to carry general loads behind a bakkie or LDV. Our range runs from 2 m to 4 m decks, non-braked at 750 kg through to twin braked axles rated to 3,000 kg GVM.This is the section most South African buyers start in, and the choice comes down to three numbers: how long the deck is, whether the axle is braked, and how many axles there are.Non-braked trailers stay inside the 750 kg limit, which keeps them legal to tow without a trailer braking system and keeps the price down. Decks of 2 m and 2.45 m cover garden refuse, building rubble, a fridge, a weekend’s luggage. The 3 m non-braked deck is the single most-bought size in the country, and it is the one we sell most of.Braked trailers start where the load does. A 1,500 kg braked square axle with an overrun coupler changes how the trailer behaves under load on a downhill, and once you are regularly carrying more than half a tonne it stops being optional. Above that, twin braked axles take you to 3,000 kg GVM on a 100 x 50 mm chassis, which is the specification for anyone moving pallets, feed, timber or plant.Every deck in this range is laid with 2.5 mm hot-rolled steel over U-channel, with 50 x 50 mm square-tube drop sides, road-legal LED lamps, a seven-pin plug and a jockey stand. Mesh and Flatex side extensions are available where the load is bulky but light, and a fitted PVC cover is available where it has to stay dry.Trailers used mainly to carry a vehicle belong in car and vehicle trailers, and trailers that carry animals belong in livestock trailers, both of which are built differently from the deck up.
2 modelsUtility & Cargo TrailersLivestock Trailers
A livestock trailer is built to move live animals safely, with high stock sides, gates that let you load and separate, and a floor that holds grip when it is wet. Our range covers 3 m single-axle and 4 m to 5 m tandem-axle bodies up to 3,000 kg GVM.What separates a stock trailer from a cargo trailer is not the chassis, it is everything above it. Sides run to 2.2 m so a beast cannot get a leg over. The frame is 50 x 50 mm square tube, close enough spaced that a lamb cannot push through and open enough that air moves while you are standing in traffic outside Vryburg. The floor is laid for grip, because an animal that loses its feet in a moving trailer injures itself and everything next to it.Gates are the part farmers actually judge us on. Combo swing gates let you work the back of the trailer from the side without opening the whole tail. A centre dividing gate lets you carry two lots at once, or hold a single animal steady in half the space so it cannot build up momentum.Size follows the herd. The 3 m single-axle body suits sheep, goats, pigs and calves, and tows behind a standard bakkie without a braked axle in the non-braked version. The 4 m and 5 m tandem-axle bodies run twin braked axles for cattle and game, and the extra axle matters as much for stability on a corrugated farm road as it does for the rating on paper.Game farms, feedlots, auction runs and smallholdings all buy from this range. If you are carrying feed rather than the animals that eat it, the utility and cargo section is the better fit.
View rangeLivestock TrailersCar & Vehicle Trailers
A car trailer is a low-sided, ramped trailer built to load and carry a vehicle. Our range covers 4 m, 5 m and 6 m decks on braked single and tandem axles, plus dedicated 3 m flat decks for quads, motorcycles and golf carts.The whole design brief here is loading angle and stability. Sides drop to 250 mm so nothing fouls a door or a mirror. Decks are 2.0 m wide, which clears the track of a bakkie without hanging the tyres over an edge. Floors are ribbed chassis plate rather than timber, because a car concentrates its whole mass on four small contact patches and a flat deck flexes where a ribbed one does not.Ramps come two ways. Slide-out ramps stow under the deck and are quicker to deploy on your own. Drop-down ramps give a longer, shallower run-up, which is what you want for anything low or anything that has to be pushed rather than driven.Axles are braked from the smallest model up. The 4 m single-axle trailer runs an 1,800 kg braked axle on 10-blade leaf springs with a two-ton braked coupler. The 5 m and 6 m tandem trailers double that, and the heavy-duty 5 m runs twin 1,800 kg braked axles with a three-ton coupler and a 2 mm plate frame cover. All of them run 14 inch 195C tyres and carry a side spare-wheel bracket.The bike, quad and golf cart trailers are a different animal: 3 m flat decks on a single non-braked axle, light enough to move by hand on the jockey stand, with optional twin parking legs and a drop-down loading ramp on the golf cart model.
1 modelCar & Vehicle TrailersClosed Body Trailers
A closed body trailer is a fully enclosed hard-body trailer used to carry cargo under lock and out of the weather. The ones we carry are built in Chromadek-clad steel, single axle from 2.25 m and tandem axle up to 6 m long and 2.1 m high.Two things sell a closed trailer: it stays dry and it stays shut. Chromadek cladding over a steel frame handles both, and it holds colour under sun that fades painted panel inside a couple of summers. Every joint is sealed, because a box trailer that leaks is worse than an open trailer with a tarp over it.Doors are where most enclosed trailers fail. Ours are reinforced at the frame rather than just at the hinge, with lockable rear and side access on the single-axle bodies, so you are not unpacking the whole load to reach the thing at the front.The single-axle range starts at a 1.22 m wide by 2.25 m long body and runs to 1.5 x 3.0 m at either 1.8 m or 2.1 m internal height, on leaf-spring suspension. It suits couriers, tradesmen carrying tools that must not walk off overnight, and anyone moving stock between two towns.The tandem-axle range starts at 1.8 x 4.0 x 2.1 m and runs to 2.0 x 6.0 x 2.1 m, on twin 45 mm round axles with 5-PCD square braked hubs, leaf springs and 14 inch white mags. That is a genuine volume load, and the second braked axle is what makes it controllable at highway speed.If the enclosed body is being used to prepare or sell food rather than carry cargo, the mobile kitchen and vending section is where those units live.
View rangeClosed Body TrailersMobile Kitchen & Vending Trailers
A mobile kitchen trailer is an enclosed, insulated body fitted out to prepare and sell food on site. We supply compact single-axle units on a 3 m to 4 m body and large twin-axle kitchens up to 5 m, both with service hatches, water tanks and full electrical fit-out.These are trading assets, so the specification is driven by what a health inspector and an insurer will accept, not by what looks good in a photograph.The compact single-axle unit is built on a mild steel chassis with insulated food-grade panelling, a rear service door, jockey stands front and rear, and LED lighting inside and out. It runs a 1.5 tonne non-braked axle on 14 inch white mags with a braked global coupler. Bodies are available at 3.0 x 1.5 x 2.0 m, 1.8 x 3.0 x 2.1 m and 2.0 x 4.0 x 2.1 m. This is the coffee, boerie roll and takeaway unit: one or two people working, one service window, quick to hitch and reposition.The large twin-axle kitchen is a different scale of business. Bodies of 2.0 x 4.0 x 2.1 m and 2.0 x 5.0 x 2.1 m sit on twin three-tonne braked axles with a 55 mm round twin jockey wheel. The exterior is insulated aluminium or stainless. Inside there is commercial exhaust and ventilation, fresh and waste water tanks, a non-slip floor, fire suppression and an emergency exit. That is a full production kitchen that happens to have a tow hitch.Event operators, franchise groups and independent traders all buy from this range, and most of them come back for a second unit rather than a bigger one.
5 modelsMobile Kitchen & Vending TrailersMobile Light Towers
A mobile light tower is a trailer-mounted diesel generator with a telescopic mast, used to light a work area where there is no grid power. We supply units with 7 m to 9 m masts, from a 5.5 kVA canopy set to a Kubota-powered nine-metre electric mast.Mines, roadworks, night shifts and event sites all have the same problem: the work moves, the power does not. A light tower solves it by putting the generator, the fuel, the mast and the heads on one chassis that a bakkie can reposition in five minutes.The 5.5 kVA unit is the simpler of the two. A diesel generator sits in a steel canopy on a 75 x 38 mm U-channel chassis, single non-braked axle, 13 inch wheels, 48 mm jockey and a 750 kg cast coupler. The mast extends from 7 m to 8 m. Rear lighting is a four-in-one cluster with a seven-pin plug and an 1,150 mm chevron board, so it is legal to tow between sites without adding anything.The nine-metre unit is a serious piece of plant. A six-section electric telescopic mast carries four 400 W LED heads producing 36,000 lumens, driven by a water-cooled Kubota diesel running at 1,800 rpm into a Class H, IP65 alternator. The 100 litre tank gives up to 60 hours of runtime, so a night shift does not stop to refuel. It is rated to 20 m/s wind, runs at 72 dB, and tows on a single 1,500 kg braked axle with leaf springs, 14 inch wheels and a two-tonne braked coupler at up to 80 km/h.Choosing between the two comes down to how long the shift is and how big the area is. The 5.5 kVA unit lights a compact work face and tows behind almost anything. The nine-metre unit lights a full intersection or a shaft head and keeps doing it for consecutive nights without a refuelling stop. Mines, roads contractors, plant hire fleets and event companies buy both, usually starting with one and adding the other once the first is permanently allocated.
View rangeMobile Light TowersAdvertising & Specialist Trailers
Specialist trailers are built around one job rather than a general load. This section covers mobile advertising trailers that carry a billboard face, and cable drum trailers that lift, hold and pay out a reel of cable or fibre under control.An advertising trailer is a billboard you can park. The 2.0 m body is mounted on a rust-resistant galvanised or powder-coated chassis, with built-in display lighting so the face still works after dark and provision for moulded 3D graphics rather than a flat vinyl wrap. Retailers park one at a mall entrance, developers put one at a site boundary, and campaigns move one between towns. It costs a fraction of a static board and it goes where the traffic is on the day.A cable drum trailer is a handling tool. The frame is high-grade steel rated for drums up to 3,000 kg, with a universal adjustable spindle that takes a range of drum widths and a locking system that stops the reel running away when tension comes off. Stabilising jacks take the load off the axles while you are paying out, which is the point at which an unstabilised trailer walks. Braking is hydraulic across both axles. Reflective markings and LED lighting are fitted for road use, and drums outside the standard range are handled as a custom build.Both of these are low-volume, high-specification products, and both are regularly built to a customer’s own dimensions. If you have a load that does not fit anything else on this site, that is a conversation worth having rather than a compromise worth making.
View rangeAdvertising & Specialist TrailersFeatured trailers
Prices include VAT at 15%. Delivery is free on anything over R20,000.
4m Mobile Food Trailer (4.0 m or 4.4 m)
Original price was: R51,000.00.R45,900.00Current price is: R45,900.00. incl. VAT
4m Mobile Food Trailer (4.0 m or 4.4 m)Catering Trailer 3.4 m or 4.0 m
Original price was: R47,000.00.R42,300.00Current price is: R42,300.00. incl. VAT
Catering Trailer 3.4 m or 4.0 m2.8 m Mobile Food Trailer
Original price was: R39,500.00.R35,550.00Current price is: R35,550.00. incl. VAT
2.8 m Mobile Food TrailerWalk-In Cool Room Trailer
Original price was: R31,000.00.R27,900.00Current price is: R27,900.00. incl. VAT
Walk-In Cool Room Trailer500 kg Mobile Freezer Trailer
Original price was: R47,000.00.R42,300.00Current price is: R42,300.00. incl. VAT
500 kg Mobile Freezer Trailer500 kg Mobile Chiller Trailer
Original price was: R49,999.00.R45,000.00Current price is: R45,000.00. incl. VAT
500 kg Mobile Chiller Trailer4.5 m Heavy-Duty Cargo Trailer 3500 kg
Original price was: R99,000.00.R89,100.00Current price is: R89,100.00. incl. VAT
4.5 m Heavy-Duty Cargo Trailer 3500 kg4.0 m Car Trailer with Hydraulic Ramp
Original price was: R55,000.00.R49,500.00Current price is: R49,500.00. incl. VAT
4.0 m Car Trailer with Hydraulic RampWhy TRAILERS SA
Four things a buyer in Kuruman or Klerksdorp actually asks about before they part with the money. Plain answers, with the numbers attached.
Built here, for roads here
Designed and assembled in Hartswater. Gravel, corrugation and farm tracks are the normal operating condition, not the exception.
Heavy-duty chassis and axles
U-channel steel chassis at 75 x 38 mm or 100 x 50 mm, square braked axles rated 750 kg to 3,000 kg, and a 2.5 mm hot-rolled steel floor.
Nationwide and cross-border
Delivery to all nine provinces from the Northern Cape. Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and the wider region on request.
Spares and support after the sale
Couplers, jockey wheels, axles, lights and covers held in stock, with workshop repairs on any make from Hartswater.
TRAILERS SA by the numbers
Provinces served
Registered since
Free delivery threshold
VAT included in every price
Fuel and water bowsers
A bowser is a fuel tank on a road-legal chassis. It lets a farm, a mine or a contractor refuel machines where the machines are, instead of trucking them to a filling station. It is the highest-value line we carry, and the one that gets specified most carefully.
| Tank capacity | 500 L to 3,000 L |
|---|---|
| Tank materials | 2.5 mm mild steel, 2.5 mm 3CR12 stainless, 10 mm double-layer polyurethane |
| Gross vehicle mass | 750 kg to 3,000 kg |
| Axle options | Single non-braked, single braked, tandem braked |
Road equipment fitted as standard. Every bowser leaves the works with 4-in-1 combination lighting, a 7-pin trailer plug, a 1150 mm rear chevron board, red front and white rear mudguard reflectors, and 50 mm yellow reflective tape down both sides.
How it works
Enquire
Call, WhatsApp or send the form. Tell us the load, the tow vehicle and the town you are in.
Spec and quote
We match a deck size, a GVM and a braking setup to the job, then send a written quote with the full specification.
Build or allocate
Stock units are allocated straight away. Custom builds are placed with the builder and you get a delivery date.
Delivered to your gate
We deliver anywhere in South Africa. Free over R20,000 with code TSA26, or collect from Hartswater at no charge.
Latest from the blog
The first buying guides are being written: choosing a diesel bowser, matching a trailer to your bakkie, and what the law asks of a towed load in South Africa.
Where we deliver
Hartswater sits in the Northern Cape, between Kimberley and Vryburg, which puts us within a day’s run of most of the country’s farming and mining belt. Trailers go out to Kuruman, Kathu, Upington, Warrenton, Christiana and Klerksdorp regularly, because that is our own backyard.
Further out, we deliver into Gauteng for Johannesburg, Pretoria and the East Rand, into the Free State for Bloemfontein and Welkom, into North West for Rustenburg, and down to Cape Town, George and Gqeberha on the coast. Durban, East London, Polokwane and Mbombela are all served on the same basis.
Across the border
We quote into Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Eswatini and Zambia. Cross-border runs are quoted individually because the paperwork, the border post and the escort requirements change the cost more than the distance does.
What it costs
Delivery is free anywhere in South Africa on any order over R20,000, using code TSA26 at checkout. Collection from the Hartswater works is free on any order, whatever the value.
Get a price on your trailer
Tell us the load, the tow vehicle and the town. We come back with a specification and a price, usually the same working day.
- Call+27 68 145 9358
- WhatsApp+27 71 065 8119
- Emailsales@trailerssa.co.za
- Works1 Dwars St, Hartswater, 8570
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