etrailer | A Closer Look at the Trailer Valet MV PRO Trailer Dolly w/ Chain Drive

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Hi Matt with etrailer and today we're talking about the Trailer Valet, MV Pro. So what this is gonna do is making parking your trailer in tight spots a lot easier. Maybe at home you have a spot next to your driveway where you park your trailer and that spot can be kind of tight to get it in or at an awkward angle. This is gonna make that a lot easier. Or if you're in a similar case that we have today at etrailer, we got a lot of construction going on so we've had to condense where we put all our trailers at the moment. As you can see, it's kind of tight.

So getting this in and out, it's gonna be a lot easier with this MV Pro. But enough talking about it, let's show it off. The way this is gonna work is this Trailer Valet is gonna take up a lot less space than your vehicle. So making those sharp returns are gonna be much simpler to do. All we have to do is come over to the front of it after when everything's coupled up, I'm just gonna pull this handle.

This handle acts as two things for us. It acts as a brake, but also allows us to steer. Now one thing you are gonna need with this, if you want to use a drill, is you're gonna have to have that drill and it's gonna have an included bit that comes with it. You just push that in place and I just have to power my drill on and using it. It's honestly pretty easy.

(operating drill) But we can also go in reverse too, but let me show you off the show off the brakes first. Like I said, if you put that handle down, it'll put on the brakes. I'm not drilling it right now and it's still holding in place because we're on pretty level ground. But in some cases if the, there's a slight incline because this is recommended for level surfaces, that will start to roll back. But every now and then, you probably will encounter a slight incline and they'll be able to handle that.

This just gives us a little bit more insurance that it's able to chalk down into place when we're not using it. The other advantage of having that handbrake down is it is gonna allow you the opportunity to look around your trailer to make sure you're not gonna make contact with either your house or in our case, this trailer we have here. Now, if the situation ever comes that you don't have a drill on hand, that's okay. This is gonna have an included handle that comes with it. You can put this in two positions. You're gonna have a low and high gear. The way that works is you're gonna make sure you line up these holes with that ball right there, push it into place. With it in place. I'm gonna start cranking. Now you won't be able to crank it in this position because like I said earlier, we've got the handbrake down. So I'm gonna lift up on that. As you can see, it kind of slid back a little bit because that's released now, but I can start cranking on this and it still moves pretty easy. But if you want something for maybe a little bit, something a little bit easier to crank, that's okay. We'll just take it right out of here and move it up. You might have to wiggle a little bit sometimes. Pull that off, I'll just put it on the top one, push down, lift up, and I can start pulling it towards me again. And they're gonna have different ratios. The high gear is gonna have an 11 to one ratio. So what that means is for every 11 cranks we put on this, we're gonna have our tire make one full rotation. We marked it with our foot earlier, to kinda show you how it's gonna look, 71, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11. We give you an idea what we're talking about. And for your low gear, you're gonna have two different spots. That's gonna be 27 to one ratio, so that's gonna be 27 cranks to get one full rotation, you're gonna have that hand knob on one side and on the top, earlier where we used our drill. That's also gonna be a low gear location. Now since you've seen it in action, let's talk about some specs. So this is gonna have a total weight capacity for a towing of 12,000 pounds and it's gonna have a tongue weight of 1200 pounds. So what the real difference there is your towing weight is gonna be the amount that it can pull. So however much weight you're hauling in this trailer and your tongue weight is gonna be the force that's being applied downwards. And a lot of that is gonna be due to this really sturdy construction from the Trailer Valet. But it's not only gonna be due to that, we're also gonna have really sturdy construction from the tires