So light a child can remove it from the truck

Cummins12V98 wrote:

psuce wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

Think about the weight that is applied when the brakes are hit hard and winging over some of these overpasses the hitch IS pushing fore and aft and it will and does deflect the bed. I have dents to prove it in the 11 I just traded. Once I installed the strips the deflection stopped!

Makes sense there would be fore and aft forces applied during travel, I was speaking more generally about the vertical load and carrying capacities. B&W must have realized the issue via testing or real world exposure and corrected it by providing the strips. The strips now provide a solid/compressible contact point between the fifth wheel hitch and the gooseneck hitch and "bottom" corrugations, and not the "top" corrugations which could be dented. If it happened using the B&W, then the possibility is there that it would happen using the Anderson also, since it sits on top of the corrugations.

Andersen emphasizes the downward force in their videos. I think people need to consider what happens to the hitch and bed when a RV is pushing and pulling. There are times when it feels like the RV is going to rip the hitch right out of my truck it is so violent under some conditions.

I too was surprised to see Anderson only discuss downward crushing force. Fore and aft shearing forces are more paramount than vertical forces. I think they may be blowing a little smoke there. I take steel anytime over aluminum.