Trailer to Fifth-Wheel Transition
It looks like sometime this week I will be making the step up from a travel trailer to a fifth-wheel. I am excited to move up from a 25 foot travel trailer to a 30 foot+ fiver. I do have some que...
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After some experience you will find you can back your 5th wheel into places that you never could attempt with a bumper pull.
Just watch jack knife as it is very hard on the trailer tires and suspension.
As for hitching when you can not see the hitch. This is what I have done.
When hitched and trailer directly behind you find a place on the trailer dead center you can see in the windshield rear view mirror.
Put a stripe with electrical tape on the trailer. Now find a place on the rear window of the truck dead center that is in line with the tape on the trailer when looking in the rear view mirror. Place another small piece of tape on the rear window. Then place a very small piece of tape on the rear view mirror in line with the other two pieces of tape.
Now when backing to the trailer just line up these three pieces of tape like using the sights on a gun. You will be centered every time and if the king pin is at the right height you will hitch every time.
Just watch jack knife as it is very hard on the trailer tires and suspension.
As for hitching when you can not see the hitch. This is what I have done.
When hitched and trailer directly behind you find a place on the trailer dead center you can see in the windshield rear view mirror.
Put a stripe with electrical tape on the trailer. Now find a place on the rear window of the truck dead center that is in line with the tape on the trailer when looking in the rear view mirror. Place another small piece of tape on the rear window. Then place a very small piece of tape on the rear view mirror in line with the other two pieces of tape.
Now when backing to the trailer just line up these three pieces of tape like using the sights on a gun. You will be centered every time and if the king pin is at the right height you will hitch every time.
