Aluminum or Steel Horse Trailers – Which is Best?
Back in the late seventies and early eighties, Sooner, Featherlite, Four Star, and many other horse trailer manufacturers created and launched an all-aluminum trailer line. These aluminum trailers were designed as solutions to the problem that all steel horse trailers were known to have back then…they deteriorated fairly quickly from rust. At that time, it was true. And since most horse trailer manufacturers were nothing more than oversized weld shops, not a lot of attention was paid to the rust problem. Nonetheless, companies such as Sooner, Featherlite, and Four Star introduced what has become known as the all-aluminum trailer. (It really isn’t all aluminum, because steel was and is still used in the axles and the couplers). Since aluminum was and is about three times the cost of steel, the aluminum trailers were much more expensive than the steel models. Customers immediately perceived that the aluminum trailers were better because they didn’t rust, and they cost so much more. Wha
