Murf touched on it. The beds of U-haul car haulers are not tailored for anything than for what they're designed for as the floors are basically ramps or guides for the tires and the floors are open. Then there's the tie- or hold-down issue--they're designed for integrated strap-type wheel hold downs. Then there's licensing (possibly), like on wreckers/recovery trucks (rollbacks especially) used for hauling equipment or anything but a vehicle for money, they require special---and very expensive--license plates called "apportioned plates". Then there's insurance; a vehicle on the trailer may have a different legal standing (insured or otherwise) if it came off the trailer and killed someone or caused property damage. At least in Michigan, a piece of farm equipment or construction equipment can be on the road and not be insured and cause damage (I know---I was on a 4-lane highway and hit by a roadworker's backhoe going the wrong way while I was waiting to make a turn around). So if your uninsured tractor came off and hit someone---because it shouldn't have been on the "car hauler", U-haul may be on the hook.

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