Morris County, NJ is home turf for Keep Them Rolling Trailer Repair. Owner Brad Smith runs the business out of Randolph and provides mobile trailer repair in every town in the county. He brings the service truck to your driveway, yard or job site and repairs brakes, bearings, axles, lights, wiring and frame damage where the trailer sits. Call (973) 651-1045 any day between 7 AM and 7 PM.
Randolph and the old iron towns around it
Most days start in Randolph, so a call for trailer repair in Randolph is about as simple as this work gets. North of Randolph, Dover, Wharton and Mine Hill grew up around iron mines and the old Morris Canal, and plenty of tradesmen work out of them today: a pickup with an open utility trailer, a small excavating outfit with a machine chained to a tilt deck. Trailers like these get hooked and unhooked several times a day, which is hard on couplers, safety chains and the plug at the tongue. When a marker light dies on one of them, the culprit is usually a corroded ground or a pinched wire, not the bulb.
Rockaway, Denville and Parsippany: the Route 46 and I-80 corridor
Route 46 and I-80 run side by side through Rockaway, Denville and Parsippany, and much of the county’s commercial trailer traffic lives along them: enclosed cargo trailers for trade crews, equipment trailers parked in industrial lots, and the company yards around Parsippany, where I-80 meets I-287. Stop-and-go traffic on Route 46 heats the brake drums over and over. If the electric brakes are out of adjustment, the truck ends up doing most of the stopping, and trailer brake repair starts with setting that adjustment right. For a yard full of trailers, a fleet maintenance and service program keeps brakes, bearings and lights on a schedule instead of on a breakdown. Rockaway Township and Denville also have lake neighborhoods where boat trailers are a normal sight in driveways.
Lake country: Roxbury, Mount Olive and Netcong
The south end of Lake Hopatcong reaches into Roxbury, Budd Lake sits inside Mount Olive, and Netcong fronts Lake Musconetcong. (The Hopatcong side of the big lake is covered on the Sussex County page.) Summer here means boat trailers backed into the water again and again. A hub that is hot from the highway hits cold lake water, the air inside it shrinks, and water gets drawn past the seal into the grease. That is the usual story behind a failed boat trailer bearing, which is why boat trailer repair always starts at the hubs.
Succasunna and Ledgewood, both part of Roxbury, sit along Route 10 and Route 46, and Flanders, on Mount Olive’s Route 206 side, mixes homes with commercial property near I-80. If your trailer spent the summer at the lake, have the wheel bearings serviced or repacked before it goes into storage, not after.
Chester and Washington Township: farm and horse trailers
The southwest corner of the county opens up into farms, orchards and horse properties. Chester, at the junction of Route 24 and Route 206, and Washington Township, which includes Long Valley, are horse trailer and livestock trailer country, with plenty of equipment trailers for moving tractors between fields. Those trailers can sit for weeks and then carry a heavy, live load, so floors, brakes and breakaway switches count for more than paint. The trailer repair in Chester page goes through what Brad checks on farm and horse trailers there.
Morristown, Madison and the I-287 towns
Morristown is the county seat, and its crowded streets and office parks shape how a repair gets done. The page on mobile trailer repair in Morristown covers repairs in tight driveways, apartment complexes and business yards in the county seat.
Madison has no page of its own, but Brad serves it all the same. The borough sits on Route 124 between Morristown and Chatham, and boat trailers, utility trailers for yard work and the odd car hauler there all get the same on-site service. If yours lives on a narrow driveway pushed up against a fence, that is workable: Brad needs room at one wheel at a time, and the trailer can be jacked and supported right where it sits.
East Hanover sits on Route 10, with Chatham and Florham Park nearby, and in all three you will see landscapers and contractors running utility and landscaping trailers loaded with mowers and materials from spring through fall. Long Hill Township, along the Passaic River in the south of the county, has its own page too: trailer repair in Long Hill.
Boonton to Pequannock: the northern towns
North of Parsippany, I-287 heads up past Boonton and Montville toward Riverdale, and Route 23 crosses Butler, Kinnelon, Riverdale and Pequannock. Lincoln Park and Pequannock sit low along the Pompton River, while Kinnelon and parts of Montville climb into steep, wooded hills. Both extremes are hard on trailers. Low, wet ground keeps a parked trailer damp underneath, and a long downhill driveway makes the brakes work every time a loaded trailer leaves home. Brad brings the parts most jobs need; if something has to be ordered, such as an axle, he comes back to finish.
Common questions
Does it cost more to have you come to my end of Morris County?
Travel is only one piece of a quote. Because the business is based in Randolph, Morris County sits at the center of the service area rather than the edge, and the parts a job needs, plus how much rust Brad has to work through, usually matter more than the drive. Describe the trailer and the problem when you call, and the price is settled before anything comes apart.
Can you work through several trailers at our yard in one trip?
Yes. Contractor and company yards often have more than one trailer waiting for attention, and lining them up lets Brad work through them in a single trip. Tell him how many trailers there are, what types, and what each one is doing wrong. Businesses with a group of trailers can also set up recurring maintenance visits, which catch worn brakes and dry bearings before a trailer quits in the middle of a job.
My trailer broke down on the highway in Morris County. Can you fix it there?
If the trailer is somewhere safe to work, such as a wide pull-off or a nearby lot, Brad can often repair it there; a spot beside live interstate traffic may mean moving it first. Read how roadside trailer repair works, then call with the location and what happened, or request service online if the trailer is already off the road and safe.