My friend and driver always bragged on how great Brechbill Trailer Sales was, how great the prices, personal customer service was. I run a fleet of Hotshot Trucks and Gooseneck Trailers, and I am the creator and admin of Hotshot-USA Resource network, www.Hotshot-USA.com. I manage a large network for our industry. Recently I was in a bind. I had converted my elec Drum Brakes to Elec over Hydraulic disk. After a couple years I needed rotors, pads, and they were manufactured by DeeMax components. My trailer guys were unable and back ordered on parts, my trailer repair couldn't find them. I called and looked furiously for them . When I did finally find them, they were $300 more than Brechbill. I remembered that my driver had mentioned that I give them a call. I did, talked to Justin and others there, Great service, They found, quoted and overnighted my parts straight to my shop. I was so impressed with them that I am adding them to my Hotshot Connections and told my friends in the business to contact them for all their parts. When I find a business like this that can help my trailers and my members, I get excited. I look forward to a long relationship with them. I honestly believe that you can not find a better source for all your trailer needs. Don't get jacked by high mark ups on parts. Just because we are in need, no need to take advantage of us, Buy with confidence. 100% REAL TALK!
Great. Better than expected.
My kid recently got his hands on a brand new Chevy 3500HD with a Duramax diesel engine and Allison transmission, and boy, this receiver is an absolute powerhouse. We’re trying to fit this car with stuff that’s just as robust and capable. Trust me, this receiver ticks all the boxes. It’s got a killer look and sits perfectly. We also decided to get some locking pins because we didn’t fancy the thought of some shady character pinching a receiver worth a cool $400.
The coolest one out there.
I tow stuff every day and a lot of the time, it’s pretty heavy. So, when I bought my f550, it made sense to get a heavy-duty hitch. From the get-go, though, I feared that it might be a bit much for my truck, and I wasn’t wrong. Problem is, my truck came with a 2″ receiver, and when we got this hitch, we upgraded to a 2.5″. But after 2.5 years of use, it’s totally trashed.
It turns out that the hitch kind of overpowers my truck, wrecking both the hitch pin hole and the receiver. We don’t even use the full 9″ drop, just one notch up. I’m now looking at having to remove and weld a new receiver onto the truck.
They make hitches with double receptacles, and that’s what this hitch needs if it’s gonna handle heavy loads using the larger drop. It’s fine for light-duty stuff, but despite us regularly using it at 16-18K, I wouldn’t trust it with its 21K rating. The hitch can handle it, but the truck just can’t.
Right now, my truck side is so hammered, I’m worried I’ll lose the trailer. The metal’s so warped, I can’t even get another hitch into the hole, and the pin hole has stretched so much, there’s almost room for half of a second pin.
The hitch is a beast and has some great features, but it puts your vehicle under a lot of strain especially with heavy loads. However, the way it’s designed, it keeps tilting up and down every time you brake or hit the gas. The drop – which can be useful sometimes – isn’t a direct pull on the truck receiver.
They’ve come out with an upgraded version with torsion, but it looks like it sticks out even further from the vehicle, which means it’s likely to put even more strain on the truck receiver.
What this hitch really needs is to extend further into the receiver. It currently doesn’t go in far enough, which puts extra stress on the pin and receiver. Just a couple more inches of steel would’ve saved my truck. I thought about asking my welder to add some steel to the hitch when he replaces my truck side, but apparently, you can’t weld onto a cast hitch.
Got this back in 2015 and it’s totally worth every penny. I’ve used it to haul a 35-foot enclosed car trailer and just last week, a 37-foot toy hauler travel trailer. My truck is a 2013 F250 6.7 Fx4. The best part is that the truck’s lifted and the adjustable hitch drop makes it just perfect.