Interesting to see how regionalized trailers are for the particular needs, in Cali if you rolled In an open sided trailer or open top you will look cheap to the dot man and he will cite you for pea or poo on the outside of the trailer. Unfortunately that is the way it is here. Lots of silver trailers her I. Cali, kept reasonably clean too, keeps the popo off our tails. We see a few open type trailers, they are usually profiled and getting a ticket. I will agree that alum trailers have the best service life on pavement, not a lifetime on dirt roads. You gotta buy a trailer for what your needs are. In Cali 24 footers can be too long for some of the tight hill country here, my partner has to run a 16 footer and a standard cab truck to get to some of his places, it is a steel Donahue, and it takes a whooping