Vehicle stabilizing system

A stabilizing system on a vehicle carrying a load-supporting platform, to prevent the platform from tilting when the load is moved relative to the vehicle, the system comprising at least one leg having one end pivotally attached to the platform at a side thereof generally above one of the vehicle wheels and the other end free to be lowered from an inoperative or travelling position in which said free end is raised above the ground, towards an operative position in which the leg depends substantially vertically between the platform and the ground outside said one of the vehicle wheels, said leg being pivotally attached to the platform on one side of the vertical plane which contains the rotational axis of said one of the vehicle wheels while the inoperative or travelling position of said leg is on the other side of said vertical plane, said leg being movable across said vertical plane containing said axis, the leg including at said free end a foot plate which extends inwardly such that when the leg is lowered towards said operative position, the foot plate is located closely adjacent the tire of said one of the vehicle wheels and closely adjacent the ground, and upon driving the vehicle in the appropriate direction said tire automatically rides up onto said foot plate to engage the leg in its operative position in which said one of the vehicle wheels rests directly upon said foot plate to be supported thereby.