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Trailer Safety Week 2025: A Reminder for Those on the Road

boat trailer manufacturingWhy Safe Trailering Practices Matter—And What Alpha Software is Doing to Help

Each June, the trailer manufacturing industry comes together for Trailer Safety Week (June 1–7), a national campaign created by the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM) to spotlight the importance of safe trailering practices. Whether you’re hauling a boat to the lake, delivering heavy equipment, or transporting cargo across state lines, trailers are everywhere—and so is the risk when they aren’t used properly.

Why Trailer Safety Matters

In the U.S., trailers are involved in more accidents than many realize. According to recent data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), over 50,000 accidents annually involve trailers, often due to improper maintenance, overloaded hauls, or neglected safety checks. A 2024 AAA study also found that nearly 70% of trailer users don’t perform routine safety inspections before hitting the road.

These aren’t just isolated incidents—they impact everyone. Unsecured loads can cause deadly road debris, sway incidents can lead to multi-vehicle pileups, and faulty brake systems or lighting can endanger both the trailer operator and surrounding drivers.

trailer inspectionNew Trailer Safety Regulations and Industry Shifts

In 2025, several states adopted stricter enforcement of trailer inspection laws and mandatory training for commercial trailer operators. The NATM also released updated Guidelines for Safety Chains, Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS), and Breakaway Brake Systems, reinforcing a growing national focus on proactive trailer safety.

These changes aren’t just regulatory checkboxes—they’re lifesaving best practices. And they put pressure on manufacturers and fleet operators to modernize how they collect and track safety data.

The Role of Technology in Safer Trailers

As trailer regulations tighten and demand for safer transportation rises, forward-thinking manufacturers are adopting digital tools to streamline inspections, ensure compliance, and track trailer performance. Paper checklists and whiteboards can’t keep up with today’s requirements and don't deliver required accountability. What’s needed are intelligent mobile inspection apps that work in real-world conditions—whether you’re online or not.

That’s where Alpha Software comes in.

National Association of Trailer Manufacturers LogoHow Alpha Software Supports Safer Trailer Manufacturing

Alpha Software is proud to be a member of the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers and provides needed resources as an active supporter of its mission. We work closely with manufacturers like Karavan Trailers and Steelpoint to develop smart mobile apps that eliminate paper forms and improve data quality. Our solutions help speed up the delivery and implementation of safety checklists, automate compliance reporting, and enable real-time insights.

We help trailer manufacturers build and deploy custom safety and inspection apps in just days—without needing a team of developers. Our fast, flexible solutions are tailor-made for rugged environments and frontline workers who need intuitive, offline-capable tools that work anytime, anywhere.

Karavan LogoTake Karavan Trailers, for example. With Alpha’s mobile solutions, Karavan's team replaced paper inspection forms with digital apps that technicians can use right from the factory floor—even in areas without Wi-Fi or cell service. The result? This has led to faster inspections, fewer missed checks, and improved trailer safety documentation.

Read the Karavan story →

 

Our Commitment to Increasing Safety: We'll Build Your Trailer Safety App for Free

AlphaSoftware2022TransInspecting trailers thoroughly—but quickly—is one of the most critical steps to ensuring safe travel. According to the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, more than 15% of trailers inspected during roadside checks are placed out of service due to brake system violations, lighting defects, or tire issues. Many of these problems could be identified and addressed with a simple pre-trip inspection—yet rushed, inconsistent, or paper-based processes often let these risks slip through.

trailer inspection appSwitching from paper forms or spreadsheet-based forms to digital trailer inspection apps makes these checks faster, more accurate, and easier to complete in the field. Technicians can capture photos, scan barcodes, and automatically time-stamp each inspection. Supervisors can review results instantly and track compliance across the fleet. These improvements don’t just boost efficiency—they help keep dangerous trailers off the road and protect lives. Mobile apps can also ensure that your inspection or field-captured data make it into your master database.  

Get a Free Trailer Inspection App

To honor Trailer Safety Week and help the industry raise the bar, Alpha Software is offering to build a free trailer safety app for any trailer manufacturer or fleet operator who contacts us during the week of June 1–7, 2025.

Whether you need a digital inspection checklist, a tire pressure log, or an app to track compliance with NATM guidelines, we’ll help you get started for free. We can map to your process or simply turn your existing inspection form into a mobile app with a custom desktop dashboard. You can test the app for free in your factory, warehouse, or on your shop floor. If you like it, you'll only pay if you decide to deploy.

👉 Get Your Trailer Safety App this week and take a step toward smarter, safer trailering.


Let’s make Trailer Safety Week more than a campaign—let’s make it a catalyst for change.

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Amy Groden
Amy Groden

Amy Groden-Morrison has served more than 15 years in marketing communications leadership roles at companies such as TIBCO Software, RSA Security and Ziff-Davis. Most recently she was responsible for developing marketing programs that helped achieve 30%+ annual growth rate for analytics products at a $1Bil, NASDAQ-listed business integration Software Company. Her past accomplishments include establishing the first co-branded technology program with CNN, launching an events company on the NYSE, rebranding a NASDAQ-listed company amid a crisis, and positioning and marketing a Boston-area startup for successful acquisition. Amy currently serves as a Healthbox Accelerator Program Mentor, Marketing Committee Lead for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Launch Smart Clinics, and on the organizing team for Boston TechJam. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University.


The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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