RV Learning Center / RV Highlights

The Fifth Wheel Trailer


A fifth wheel trailer is designed to be coupled with a special fifth wheel hitch that's attached in the bed of a pickup truck, usually centered above the truck's axle.  Doing so allows the pickup to safely handle the higher hitch weights associated with heavier units having two, three, even four slide-out rooms.  This extra hitch weight provides improved stability, especially with the larger units preferred by full-time RVers and extended stay destination campers.  The fifth wheel design also allows for a tighter turning radius in most cases.

Easily recognized by the step-up design in the front hitch area, fifth wheel trailers are currently produced in sizes ranging generally from 24 to 40 feet.  Most currently manufactured units have at least one slide-out room, and the larger sizes often have three or more - offering up to 400 square feet of interior space.  Large basement storage areas are another feature commonly found with this type of unit.  While many fifth wheel models are designed with extended stay RVers in mind, there are also many family friendly floor plans available as well including models with a second bedroom and sometimes even a second bath.

A long bed pickup truck is not required - current trailer and hitch manufacturing technology will also allow a fifth wheel trailer to be towed with most of the short bed pickup models that are popular today.  There are even some special trucks made specifically for hauling large fifth wheels.

  View Our Fifth Wheel Trailer Inventory

Learn The RV Lifestyle

Our RV Learning Center is full of information about choosing a type of RV, product brands we offer, RV Pro articles and links to other related sites including campground reservations, state parks, towing information, dump sites and much more.

Selling your RV?

We buy used units - if you're looking to sell a clean late model travel trailer, fifth wheel, toy hauler, truck camper or tent trailer we may be able to help!  Give us a call at one of the numbers listed below or use our e-mail contact form and tell us what you have.

RV Business Top 50 Dealer

Determined by RV Business magazine and an independent panel of industry experts, the Top 50 is an annual list of dealers that are unsurpassed in overall business operations, customer service, professionalism and all the characteristics that go along with them.  Curtis Trailers was nominated and received this award for 2008 and 2009.