Mobile Grooming Trailers and Pet Groomer Resource.

GT Grooming Trailers aren’t the cheapest, they’re just the best!

While most grooming trailer conversion companies built their niche as selling the “cheapest” grooming trailers, we built our reputation by providing the best built trailers on the market.  There are some things that the cheap conversion companies practice to ensure having the lowest quality mobile salons.  Some are:

1. Don’t include needed items such as trailer brakes.

2. Include a “stainless steel” tub that LOOKS like quality, but is actually very thin, flimsy, needs calk to keep watertight, and will ultimately fail.

3. Install a cheap “apartment window” air conditioner instead of a quality unit designed for the application.

4. Use cheap cargo cam-locking doors instead of RV style doors.

5. Advertise “waterproof” vinyl floors but fail to describe how they are not waterproof where it matters; along the walls.  While GT spends about $1,000 waterproofing the floors, low quality grooming trailers have virtualy no protection over the subfloor.

6. Use an electric water heater (or no water heater) instead of a propane water heater.

7. Install a “portable” generator instead of a quality RV or commercial generator designed (and warranted) for a mobile application.

8. Use “big box hardware store” cabinetry that will brake, mildew, and rot in a mobile grooming environment.

9. Include low quality items such as small water tanks, “price point” trailer shells from corner lots, or inferior plumbing components.

10.  “Frame” the tub and cabinets with wood or other unprotected materials.

This list was too easy, and just scrapes the surface!

This latest testimonial was fun to read!  It came from Emily’s Wags and Whiskers.  Purchasing an all-wether mobile pet grooming trailer was really important to her.  Clearly, she was satisfied.  This was about the 10th black trailer GT has converted for pet grooming.  I must say, with a black truck the salon looks great!

The grooming trailer is AWESOME!!!  All that we have hoped for and then some!! Can’t explain the awesomeness of the trailer. Even in the cold it is not a problem!

Just wanted to let our customers know what Kim, our master groomer, has been up to lately.  As some of you know, she’s quite an artist!  She has been making hand-crafted jewelry for some time and has decided to put her designs on-line.  She has a website called “Shop At Charmed” where you can see the different themes she has come up with.  If you enjoy handcrafted jewelry, please give her store a tumble and let us know what you think!

GT Grooming Trailers continues to crank out our mobile pet grooming salons to the smartest groomers in the country.  We will be in Los Angeles at the end of March with two new salons (one in Aneheim and another in Santa Clarita).  For those of you in the the city of Angels, let us know if you would like to tour one of our salons; we will do our best to make that happen for you.  Or if you’d like to see a “real” operational trailer by one of our many customers, we can arrange a showing for you.

One of our latest customers is from Laguna Hills, California.  Barking Beauties Grooming chose to purchase a GT Grooming Trailer with our optional “Budget Booster” generator.  To SAVE $2,500, Barking Beauties let us provide a 3,000 watt Honda portable generator mounted in the back of their truck.  We simply run a cord from the truck to the front of the trailer!  This configuration saves a lot of money for the mobile groomer, and allows for the ability to groom with EITHER generator or shor-line power (extension cord).

Of course, our typical generator option is always available for $4,950.  This option includes an Onan 3,600 watt generator (which now comes in BLACK!) that can be exposed to the elements. We weld up a cage to mount on the trailer.  We also include a 30 amp converter, an automatic switchover system, and an internal remote switch.  Just as with our Budget Booster Generator, you have the ability to use your shor-line as well.

A new book is on the market.  It’s called The Mobile Pet Grooming Guide.  Some of the mobile grooming conversion companies are mentioned in the book, and GT Grooming Trailers has a photo of one of our salons right on the cover!  The book, understandably, is heavily weighted towards a good company called Wag’nTails, which is the largest and most known conversion company in the business; but a balance of other brands would have been good for the industry.  For example, one of the only pictures of a trailer interior is of a GT.  After all, Wag’nTails is like a PC, and GT Grooming Trailers is like a Mac!  But I’m happy we at least made the cover and a few pics inside.

The book has strengths and weaknesses.

STRENGTHS: Very good information for start-ups looking for advertising ideas.  The book has suggestions on how to handle the phone, route appointments, and tips for almost every aspect of the job.  There is also some good information about running a fleet of vehicles, retailing products, etc.

WEAKNESSES:  First, the author assumes that trailers are for “starters” because trailers are cheaper than vans.  After serving about one hundred customers, I can safely estimate that those who purchase trailers instead of vans are not simply starters, they are SMARTER. Read the rest of this entry →

Some of my customers know that my background is in theology.  My degrees are from both Protestant and Catholic schools.  I’ve taught classes for churches, high schools, and colleges; written thousands of pages synthesizing history, philosophy, and theology.  So how does that kind of a background help me with my GT  Grooming Trailers business?  Well, maybe it is to help dog lovers cope with the loss of their friend.

A couple of nights ago, I had to euthanize my boxer, Gruffie.  Doing so sort of forced me to dig out my old theologian cap and review minds greater than my own.  I initially found little comfort.  However, my sifting of 2,000 years of thought revealed sufficient room to hope that God could be planning a surprise for us! Read the rest of this entry →

GT Grooming Trailers is busier than ever! It’s been months since we posted an article, but we do want to say a few things:

Thanks to all of our past customers and referrals to your fellow entrepreneurs; we can’t thank you enough.  With your help, GT is is hoping to complete our 100th salon by the end of this year!

At any one moment, GT is working on a few grooming trailers and we continue to keep cranking them out for the smartest mobile groomers on the road. One way we keep improving is by getting them into your hands QUICKER.

Even though we ask for 90 days to complete your mobile grooming trailer, most builds only take 9 or 10 weeks. We’ve NEVER been late on a build and delivery is almost always available.

Have a GREAT CHRISTMAS!

-GT

Shoppers have shared with us their experiences with a GT Grooming Salons competitor.  Evidently, one company is “selling against” GT’s grooming trailers by saying that GT uses “horse trailers” to use as our shell.

Sort of funny (since they use a camper and call it a “proprietary design”) but GT does not use horse trailers.  We have an arrangement with a company who builds our trailer shells SPECIFICALLY FOR ONLY GT.  Nobody else can acquire our trailer shells.  Because of our volume, our shells are welded up precisely to fit GT’s equipment.  The frame is built for GT’s unique use.  For  example, the studs are spaced so we can bolt our tubs into the framing which allows for more space under the tub (which allows for a smaller trailer shell).  The headers are welded specifically for our water heaters, the doors are custom built for only GT, the examples go on and on.  

So, if a company who has sold TWO mobile grooming trailers is selling against GT’s use of a TRULY proprietary design by calling it a “horse trailer”, a responsible shopper would find that our trailers are designed from the ground up to be mobile dog grooming trailers through and through.

The Shear Sharpener rocks!

GT Grooming Trailers spent the afternoon with Colorado’s best shear sharpener.  Unlike a lot of mobile sharpeners who simply grind your shears on a rock, Laurie showed us just how important proper technique is.  She adjusts the bumpers, straightens the blades, rounds the blades, etc.  Basically, she can do just about anything!  She’d even be interested in working for other mobile groomers if you’d like to send her shears for sharpening.  Her phone number is 303-564-5266.

Laurie was especially impressed with how we build our grooming trailers because our trailer floors are actually covered with a quarter inch of padded rubber.  Laurie knows very well how a dropped pair of shears can be bent or chipped when they smack against a hard floor, so seeing our pet grooming trailer floor was a real delight for her.  It is nice to be recognized for quality by professionals like Laurie the Shear Sharpener!  We’ll keep you posted when her website is completed!