Compare and Contrast TT's and 5er's
I have towed Travel Trailers for over 40 years and just switched to a 5th wheel for the first time. Everyone Camping World kept telling me that I will love the 5th wheel because it is so much easier ...
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poncho62 wrote:
Biggest difference I found is that the 5th wheel follows differently when towing. Turning is more hazardous, it cuts sooner. Backing is a bit different, but not much.
You are so correct Poncho.
A fifthwheel trailer wheels track quite a bit tighter than the truck's rear wheels unlike a TT.
Square wide to the left turns are important.
I was walking with my dog early one morning a couple weeks ago in a trailer park and a camper was leaving early and forgot about his trailer tracking tighter than his truck and just about took out another trailers rear end going around a corner with a football field worth of concrete and road that he did not use to make the turn properly.
I woke most of the entire park with my hollering to stop. He stopped with about 1 inch to spare before the last 5-7 feet of the side of his trailer would have been grinding against the rear end of the other trailer.
