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What about installing clearance and marker lights and reflective tape?
Thank you both! Those are interesting ideas/solutions. I suppose I could also put those low profile LED lights I linked earlier on pieces of angle iron like DeadParrot did.
What I received was not as advertised (and the ad description said nothing about "pictures are only representative"), but they clearly were just bows and corners pulled off of an M105 trailer (due to the location that the bolts used to be in) and disassembled, then parts painted using a non-matching olive drab spray paint (as you well know, olive drab does not match 383 green CARC). Most of the carriage bolts were unusable as they had been chewed up by vice grips and I would NOT want to lay a cargo cover over top of the now sharp heads. The seller and I did, sort of, reach an agreement - he shipped me a spare bow and corner (which I'm still trying to sell...), some paint, and new hardware - but I would have much rather received monetary compensation instead. Thus, I will never do business with him again. I could have really stuck it to him and filed a "not as advertised claim" and etc, but I just wanted the metal bows and corners and these were in good shape otherwise. In retrospect, I should have just been more patient as I've seen several other sets for sale since then, at a lower price.
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Last Saturday (July 28th, 2018 ) I used my M101A1 to avoid a $60 delivery charge and picked up a brand new queen mattress and box spring (okay I guess they're no longer true "box springs" but are "foundations" as I was corrected on my vocabulary usage at the store
For the record, a U.S. queen sized mattress (60" wide, 80" long) fits perfectly in the M101A1 cargo box, however, these 3/4-ton M116A1 based trailers are "too much trailer" for the sub 1/4-ton Dodge Dakotas. Though with a light load (no load? lol), lower speeds and greater stopping distances it works well enough.
It would have been less hassle to have just taken my deuce and a half the ~7 miles but I felt like I needed to justify the bother and expense of having the M101A1 trailer with MORE bother and expense
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Oh mine tows perfectly behind my Dodge Dakota too. It turns, pulls, and rides just fine (I can feel the extra jars in the rear end over bumps though). Except, I can feel it back there in acceleration and especially deceleration. The transmission noticeably waits longer to shift up while accelerating and I have to brake harder and longer to stop. I would presume a more appropriate vehicle size to trailer weight ratio would be one where I don't really notice the trailer when its empty.
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