B&W Trailer Hitches Blog

27 weeks 2 days ago
Product News

It is said to be “the world’s premier automotive aftermarket trade event”. The SEMA Show is the largest convention that B&W attends all year. We prepare to show the world our newest, innovative designs for the hitch industry. This particular year, however, we launched the first product to be asked for by name for over five years. Our customers have been subtly mentioning it at shows then flat out asking for it by email and finally hounding us with phone calls. We got the message. You wanted a slider.

Now we have to...

31 weeks 19 hours ago
B&W Happenings

 

Have you ever read a lie on the internet? Maybe you did and you knew it right away. Maybe you did and you ingested the information only to find out later that what you had believed all along was not true.

It happens to the best of us. Our marketing department spends time discovering what is being said in the public forum so that we can educate the customer. Without the proper knowledge, towing can be very dangerous.

Just recently, we found an article on an informational website that, while probably unintentionally, misled the reader regarding gooseneck...

35 weeks 1 day ago
B&W Happenings

 

B&W Trailer Hitches Building in Humboldt, KS

B&W Trailer Hitches has had another busy year. 2012 began with a new venture into the motorcycle world then progressed with upgrades to the manufacturing plant, the addition of an on-site clinic and a nationwide television commercial campaign.  The company has grown to 243 full-time employees, up from 216 last year. B&W is continuing to be a competitive force in this rebounding...

37 weeks 3 days ago
Product News

 

The other day we were asked by a magazine to rank the top five considerations when buying a receiver hitch. Would you like to know what we said? Here you go.

  1. Class - Weight rating is important. The hitch class depends on the vehicles tow rating, the weight of your trailer and the weight of what you intend to haul.
  2. Ball size – Make sure the ball size on your hitch matches the ball size on your trailer.
  3. The Amount of Drop or Rise – The trailer should always be level....
39 weeks 22 hours ago
B&W Happenings

Just over a week ago I was headed to the vet hauling a trailer loaded with three horses.  We'd had snow two nights before but the weather had cleared up, the sun had come out and the roads were completely dry...or so I thought.  After heading around a sharp curve at about 25 mph I started to accelerate to make it up a hill.  At the top of the hill I hadn't quite made it to the 45 mph speed limit and I saw in front of me a stretch of black ice on a straight away about 3 football fields long.  The wind must have blown snow across the road causing it to...

39 weeks 2 days ago
Product News

We made our debut with The Biker Bar at Sturgis last week, and by all accounts, it was a hit.  We sold all the inventory of one model (for Harley Davidson touring bikes) and our maintenance-guy-turned-sales-guy, Joe Jefferis, did free installations in some pretty crazy conditions on trailers ranging from homemade utility trailers to tricked-out toyhaulers.  There’s no doubt we made some new friends.   “We passed out so many brochures, business cards, and beer koozies, and demonstrated how it works many, many times,” according to Charl Hill...