D & J Industries are the UK & European suppliers of Trail-A-Mate.

We are a family run business formed by Don & Joyce Smith. Don’s knowledge of the caravan industry sparked our interest in this revolutionary product. Don has enjoyed caravanning for 37 years throughout the UK and Europe. Trail-A-Mate now provides us with a travelling companion that actually makes our lives so much simpler! 

 The inventor, Mr Norman Lockwood developed Trail-A-Mate over 12 years ago after he suffered a severe heart attack. He was advised by his doctors that his caravanning days were numbered and as a result he set about developing Trail-A-Mate. The objectives for the product were to take the stress out of caravanning, and ultimately to make his life easier. The resulting requirements were aimed at developing a product that made changing a tyre quick and effective, and which simplified the hitching and unhitching of his 6-metre caravan.

 The Trail-A-Mate invention has proved so successful that it is now used by a vast number of the trailer communities in both Australia and New Zealand.