Yes — and if you haul bikes, you should. Trailer theft is a painfully efficient crime: a thief doesn't need to defeat your disc lock or hotwire anything. They back up to the hitch, lift the coupler, and drive away with the trailer, the motorcycle on it, and every strap and toolbox inside. It takes about as long as reading this paragraph.
A magnetic GPS tracker is made for this. A trailer is essentially a steel frame on wheels, which means hiding spots everywhere:
- Inside the frame rails or crossmembers, where road grime hides it further.
- Under the deck or fender supports.
- Inside the tongue box channel — anywhere steel and out of sight.
Because the tracker is self-powered with a replaceable battery lasting roughly 9–12 months, it doesn't care that a trailer has no electrical system of its own to tap. Set up movement alerts in the free app, and the moment the trailer starts rolling without you, your phone knows. From there you follow the live location and hand it to the police.
Pair the tracker with a hitch lock and a wheel chock lock — physical layers slow the thief down; the tracker makes sure that even if they win the first round, they don't win the week.
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