Wells let’s just say its the first step after deciding the length of your tiny house 🙂 This would be, where are the fenders located? This greatly affects everything in your design, especially door placements. Below is our master list for fender locations for a majority of our trailer lengths. When it comes to placing your doors in your floor plans, make sure to allow 12″ before and After the fenders for the framing of your walls and the proper hold-downs, this picture shows why that spacing is important.
Where are these fenders located on the Trailer?
For our Texas, Pennsylvania, And California Manufacturers, the Default Location for the center of the axles is Approx 60% the way back from the front of the main deck, Not including the hitch or Gooseneck. For specific fender locations, Measurement needs to be listed on order. For gooseneck trailers, the measurements below would be for the lower deck of the gooseneck trailer.
20ft deck = Approx 12ft Back from the front of the deck to the center of the axles
20ft Trailer is 240 inches in length (20ft x 12in = 240) 240 x 60% = 144″ (center of fenders) – 36″ to find front of fender location = 108″. 108″ from front of deck to front of fenders, add the total length of fenders back in (72inches) to 108″ = 190″ from front of trailer to rear of fenders. Take 240″ for total length of trailer, minus 190″ and that leaves 50″ which is the deck space behind the rear fender to rear of trailer.
12ft 2-Axle Trailer 144 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 50″ back from front of deck. 20″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
14ft 2-Axle Trailer 168 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 65″ back from front of deck. 31″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
16ft 2-Axle Trailer 192 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 79″ back from front of deck. 41″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
18ft 2-Axle Trailer 216 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 94″ back from front of deck. 50″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
20ft 2-Axle Trailer 240 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 108″ back from front of deck. 60″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
24ft 2-Axle Trailer 288 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 137″ back from front of deck. 79″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
24ft 3-Axle Trailer 288 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 119″ back from front of deck. 61″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
26ft 2-Axle Trailer 312 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 151″ back from front of deck. 89″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
26ft 3-Axle Trailer 312 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 133″ back from front of deck. 71″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
28ft 3-Axle Trailer 336 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 148″ back from front of deck. 80″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
30ft 3-Axle Trailer 360 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 162″ back from front of deck. 90″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
32ft 3-Axle Trailer 384 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 176″ back from front of deck. 100″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
34ft 3-Axle Trailer 408 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 191″ back from front of deck. 109″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
36ft 3-Axle Trailer 432 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 205″ back from front of deck. 119″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
38ft 3-Axle Trailer 456 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 220″ back from front of deck. 128″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
38ft 4-Axle Trailer 456 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 202″ back from front of deck. 110″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
40ft 3-Axle Trailer 480 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 234″ back from front of deck. 138″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
40ft 4-Axle Trailer 480 Inches of deck space – Front of fender approx 216″ back from front of deck. 120″ from rear of fender to rear of trailer.
What Are the dimensions of the Fenders?
The Fenders are approx 10″ Wide and Approx 10″ Tall (approx 14″ Tall on a drop axle trailer)
Approx 6ft Long On a Tandem Axle Trailer
Approx 9ft Long on a Triple Axle Trailer
Approx 12ft Long on a Quad Axle Trailer
What Style Are The Fenders Available In?
Smooth Fenders from all Manufacturers, Optional upgrade to square fenders available at all locations for an additional charge.
Jeep Style Standard From Our Pennsylvania Location
How do you build over the fenders?
The fenders should be treated like a window opening and proper building practices would be to run a header across the fender to properly support the roof load.