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Horse Trailer Security
More Than $10 Billion In Trailers Stolen Each Year Securly lock your trailer hitch.
By Ken Gustafson TrailerLocksOnline.com

Imagine your horse and horse trailer, new boat and trailer, your expensive tools and utility trailer, or your travel trailer stolen. Trailer Theft Prevention. What would you do? Sure, you’d probably have good insurance, but what other costs are there? Time, effort, sentimental value; Having a trailer stolen can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time of the day or night. Thieves simply cut through a padlock on the trailer hitch, and drive off with the trailer and its contents. What’s worse is that some people don’t even use a trailer hitch lock. In those sad cases, the trailer is just waiting for a thief with a truck to come by and haul it off. Still more troubling can be the contents of the trailer, especially when those contents include something irreplaceable, like your horse!

There are many things people do to protect their trailers. Some work better than others, but any effort is better than none. For one, a person can leave their trailer attached to their vehicle and back it in to a spot where it can’t be moved with the vehicle there. This isn’t always convenient, but neither is having your trailer stolen! Other times people park their trailers in busy, highly visible places. This works well when the people who have the good visibility know it’s your trailer and watch it for you.

Otherwise, it’s impossible to know who should/shouldn’t be hauling your trailer away and the thief might look just as natural hitching up your trailer as you do. Other people take the opposite approach and tend to park their trailers out of sight or in obscure places to “hide” them. This can work too. If a thief doesn’t know your trailer is there, then it is probably safe. Unfortunately, if he does find your trailer, he can take it without anyone knowing what he’s doing. There’s no perfect answer to trailer security, but the more you do, the better off you’ll be.

Sometimes the trailer isn’t as important to the owner as what is in it, so they remove and reload the trailer contents each time they move it. This might keep your horse or gear safe, but it still leaves your trailer unprotected and can leave you in a bad space if your trailer is stolen. Besides that reality, the prospect of unloading and reloading isn’t always feasible, especially when traveling long distances or making short stopovers. Some people just expand their theft insurance coverage (at considerable cost). Again, an insurance check won’t bring your trailer back and it sure won’t replace something precious, like the horse that might be in the trailer.

While each of the above tactics provides some deterrence, none of them are going to stop a determined thief. Most people secure their trailer with a padlock thinking that will keep it safe. This will help, but a skilled thief can cut through any padlock in virtually no time at all. With billions of dollars of trailers and cargo stolen each year, your chances of becoming one of the statistics are higher than you might think. No question about it, Americans have billions of dollars worth of possessions invested in trailers and their contents, and thieves know this. Often a thief can steal a trailer, sell it and its contents, and earn more than they could in most other types of crime. This is serious business for criminals, so it takes a serious approach to stop trailer theft.

Short of having a private security guard standing next to your trailer, your best bet by far is to install a specially designed, high quality trailer hitch lock. When thieves see one, they know they're beaten and move on. Although no lock is perfect, a quality trailer hitch lock lets the thief know he should spend his energy on an easier target. The small investment in a quality trailer hitch lock is minuscule compared to what you could lose to a thief. Specialty trailer hitch locks are specifically designed for your model of trailer hitch. There’s one for just about every kind of trailer whether you tow with a ball, lunette ring/eye, or kingpin hitch.

GusHill Industries

Now GusHill Industries is making trailer theft a whole lot harder with the introduction of several lines of theft-deterrent, high quality, specialty Trailer Hitch Locks available at www .TrailerLocksOnline.com. GusHill models include:

The DaPlug trailer hitch lock is for trailers with a 2 3/8” or 3” inch lunette ring/eye hitch. Made from rock-solid cast-iron with a 6-pin tumbler lock, the hitch is encased and the lock is protected.

The DaKing trailer hitch lock is for kingpin hitch trailers and uses also uses a 6-pin tumbler lock to protect 5th wheel trailers. It is an excellent choice for many larger horse trailers.

The DaBull trailer hitch lock is designed for trailers with Bulldog® (ball) couplers. This design fully encases the coupler making it nearly impossible to get to the hitch, even if the collar release wire is cut. It too utilizes a 6-pin tumbler lock.

All GusHill Industries trailer hitch locks include 6-pin tumbler lock mechanisms made of top quality materials and are designed for years of trouble-free service. See the wide selection of trailer hitch locks, designs, and sizes at www.TrailerLocksOnline.com.

Contact: Gus Hill Industries
Ken Gustafson
(209)-304-0000
info@daplug.com
P.O. Box 1298
Jackson CA 95642
www.TrailerLocksOnline.com

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