Portable Toilet Trailer: Attaching the Port-O-Potties

The twenty four foot portable toilet trailer that Tom is building for Honeywagon Sanitation has one last step.   Creating a good system for attaching the portable toilets insures the security, safety and ease when mounting the portable toilets for travel.  It also secures the investment a sanitation company has made in purchasing portable toilets. 

A rail that runs down the center of the trailer helps to hold the portable toilets in place.  One side of the skids of the individual portable toilets fit underneath the rail and holds down that side of the portable toilet.  Looped ropes are designed to fit over the opposite side of the unit.  This causes the portable toilet to be pulled down and back into the center rail.  The portable toilet is then secure on the trailer.  Tom attached boat winches to tighten up the ropes.  Heber Richardson, owner of Honeywagon Sanitation, can then pull the rope by hand in the front and then use the wench to tighten up the front.  Tom also put a winch in the back to tighten up to help take out slack in the back of the trailer.

The trailer is also designed for ease of use.  Portable toilets can easily be loaded and unloaded from the sides.  The sides of the trailer are sloped and one person can readily tilt a portable toilet against the trailer and then slide the skids up onto the rail.  The rail is built lower for easy loading. 

Portable toilets can be loaded and unloaded in any order.  The operator will want to make sure that tongue weight is taken into consideration.  Toilets will more than likely want to be unloaded off the rear of the trailer first.  Leaving five or six portable toilets in the back of the trailer creates negative tongue weight.  Negative tongue weight is dangerous because it can cause a trailer to weave.  Couplers are not designed for negative tongue weight.  The trailer is made to hold twelve portable toilets, six on each side.