fifth wheel backing trouble
We have a large fifth wheel and a tight corner to back around into our RV spot behind the house. I can do it but it often takes up to ten tries to get it just right. I saw something somewhere about ...
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I looked at the Reese Revolution but I believe that is something that is manufactured with the trailer, not something you can add later, at least not without a lot of modification work. I also looked at the 10” PopUp pin box extension but that would just make things worse by extending the length from the pin to the axles. It still rotates on the hitch’s plate centered over the rear truck axle. I was thinking if I could get the point where the pin rotates around the hitch back behind the truck axle it would give more instantaneous turn response, more like a conventional bumper hitch rather than an over-the-axle 5th wheel setup. Bumper hitch trailers seem to me to be easier to back up than 5th wheels.
