Motorhome, 5th Wheel or Pull Trailer

pnichols wrote:

SGTJOE wrote:
Which RV handles best in windy weather and 18 wheelers passing you and then pulling over in front of you Motorhome, Pull Trailer or 5th Wheel???

For "handles best in windy weather" - the physics of boxes traveling down the road dictate that you travel in as small of a one-piece RV, on as heavy duty a chassis, as you can tolerate and afford.

This means that you rule out towed RVs, and instead go for a short and not too tall Class A or Class B or Class C motorhome on the highest rated chassis it can be had on.

I didn't realize the above when we bought our new RV, but luckily - from a handling and stability viewpoint - wound up with a 24 foot Class C on a Ford E450 chassis. This chassis happened to be stock rated and built to handle consideraly more weight than the coach portion requires (hence stiff springs), came stock with a front hydraulic steering stabiliizer (hence no hassle to keep it going strait down the road), came stock with a full box delivery truck type rear dually stance (hence a wide side-to-side footprint where coach weight is the heaviest) and most importantly, came stock with both front and rear torsion bars to reduce coach sway relative to the chassis frame.

We have no problems driving in healthy side-winds, and big rig push when they pass is at a minimum. Another subtle benefit is that we don't need stablizer jacks when camped because walking inside the RV doesn't cause any rocking to speak of.

However towables outsell motorhomes by a wide margin, so IMHO the next best stable setup is as small and non-tall 5'er as one can tolerate being pulled by a one-ton dually pickup.

Well as stater before 32" 5er, 13' tall towed by a 2001 Ram 2500 rock solid in the wind and passing semis.
I don't want small, but want solid, and our combo is now the same 5er towed by a 2016 Ram 3500 DRW.