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janegowest
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Nov 03, 2014

How easy/difficult to travel with 14,300 lb dry fifth wheel?

I keep falling for the heavier rigs with lots of storage!! Anyone out there that is not full-timing, traveling with a trailer this heavy dry weight? Or if you full-timers are traveling with heav...
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wirenutz
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Nov 03, 2014
we have a toy hauler fifth wheel that weighs in at 14,400 dry weight, our loaded weight is 17,000 as you can see by my signature I am pulling it with a Freightliner FL-60 with a 7.2 CAT motor I get 13MPG unloaded and 9MPG loaded, it works out to be about 50 cents a mile at today's fuel prices

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