The Best Wheel Chocks for RVs and Trailers

One chock here does the work of four wedges. You slide it between the tandem tires, turn the ratchet handle until it's snug against both sidewalls, and you're done. Setup runs well under a minute per side once you've done it twice. Two units cover a tandem trailer, one on each side. With wedges you'd be placing four, and you'd still feel more movement inside.

The rocking is what surprises people. Owners who spent years stacking wedge chocks describe the same thing after switching: someone walks to the back bedroom and nothing shifts. It won't turn a travel trailer into a house, because nothing does. But the fore-aft sway that makes the whole rig feel like a boat at anchor mostly goes away. If you've got a light sleeper in the bunk, that alone earns it a spot.

Steel is the reason these last. There's no flex once it's tightened and no plastic to go brittle in a cold storage lot. Owners report running the same pair for many seasons, and the failures they describe are usually self-inflicted — pulling out of a site with one still clamped between the tires. That's a real risk with any between-tire chock, so hang something bright on the steering wheel.

It's also easier on your body than it looks. You reach in from the side of the trailer at roughly waist height instead of crouching at the tread. You'll still bend some, but it beats kneeling in gravel four separate times. The ratchet takes ordinary hand strength, and it releases in seconds when you're breaking camp in the rain.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

The hard limit is two axles. Single-axle owners can't use it at all, and there's no workaround. You also need two of them for a tandem trailer, one per side, so think of it as a pair rather than a single purchase.

Seating it the first time is fiddly. Owners describe wrestling to hold the chock in position while they start expanding it — once the pads touch rubber it settles right down, but those first few seconds are awkward. And it's heavy. Next to a plastic wedge you're adding real weight to the cargo bay, doubled.

Picture the end of a six-hour tow. You're tired, the site is loose gravel, and the last thing you want is to get down on your knees twice on each side of the trailer. The ONESTEP is built around exactly that moment. Drop it between the tandem tires, step down on it, walk away. Removal is a tug on the cable while you're standing upright.

The stability is close enough to our top pick that most people won't notice a difference. Owners coming off wedge chocks report the same result: the trailer stops rocking front to back when people move around inside. It adjusts across a wide span of tandem spacings, so it fits most travel trailers and plenty of fifth wheels without you measuring anything first.

The cable is a quiet bonus. It's the handle you use to pull the chock free, and owners also run a padlock through it to keep the chock with the trailer in a storage lot or a crowded rally field. It's less deliberate security than a purpose-built lock, but it's there and it works.

It's light for a steel tandem chock, so carrying two doesn't punish your cargo weight the way our top pick does. That matters more than it sounds on a small trailer where every pound is spoken for.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

It's the priciest single tandem chock in this guide, and you need two. The long shape also eats more bay space than the X-Chock, and it doesn't nest with anything.

A few owners report a unit getting stiff and hard to seat after a couple of seasons of grit. Rinsing it off before storage seems to help, but it's a mechanism, and mechanisms in campground dust eventually complain. Tandem axles only, same as our top pick.

If you tow a single-axle trailer, this is where to start. Interlocking chocks are simply off the table for you, so the question becomes which wedge holds best. This one is noticeably larger and stiffer than the freebies dealers hand out, with a broad contact face that doesn't want to tip. Owners who replaced dealer chocks with these describe the difference in one word: solid.

The shape is smarter than it looks. There's a molded grip so you can pick it up without getting your fingers under a tire, and a drilled hole most owners run a rope through for no-bend retrieval. It weighs almost nothing, which means you can carry four without thinking about it — and four is what you actually need.

UV inhibitors in the plastic matter more than they sound. Chocks live outside, and cheap plastic chalks and cracks after a summer or two in the sun. Owners who've had these under a stored trailer for years report them still holding shape. It's the kind of durability you only notice by its absence.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

Plastic gets slippery. Owners are consistent about this: on wet or smooth concrete, and especially on a real incline, this chock can slide rather than dig in. On dry pavement and packed gravel it's fine. On a wet boat ramp it isn't the tool you want.

One wedge blocks one direction. That's not a defect, it's how wedges work, but it means a proper single-axle setup takes four of them — front and back of one tire on each side. Plan on that. And like all plastic, it can crack under load in deep freezing cold, so year-round cold-climate campers should go rubber or steel.

The lock is the real reason to choose this one. If your trailer lives in a storage yard, a rally field, or a driveway you can't see from the house, a chock that can be secured in place does two jobs — it stops a rollaway and it stops someone walking off with the chock itself. No other option here comes with that built in.

The louvers grip differently from a smooth pad. Instead of pressing only on the sidewall, they settle into the tread pattern, which helps on aggressive off-road tires where a flat pad leaves gaps. Owners with big travel trailers describe the rocking disappearing completely, including on rigs lifted several inches on leveling blocks.

The expansion range is the other quiet advantage. It opens wider than most between-tire chocks, so it covers fifth wheels and wide-track trailers where our top pick can run out of reach. If you've measured your tandem gap and found it unusually wide, check this one first.

Owners generally like the ratcheting setup and mention the included wrench, though a few report the wrench missing from the box and just using their own. It's a minor thing. Any standard socket handles it.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

It's bulkier and heavier than our top pick for the same coverage, and you still need two. For nightly campsite use where you're setting and pulling chocks every couple of days, the extra bulk and the lock routine start to feel like work.

The louvers collect dirt. On dusty or muddy sites they need an occasional rinse to keep moving freely, which is one more chore in the pack-up routine.

Ultra-Fab lists a lifetime warranty on the Super Grip Chock.