GD Momentum 395ms with Ram Megacab

Lantley wrote:
I am always amused how many RV'ers want to be right at the edge.
Buy a SRW truck and the heaviest RV they can find.
Or they buy a large full size camper and get the shortest bed pick up available and prefer not using a slider hitch.
There needs to be a balance between truck and trailer.
For the most part a large heavy trailer requires a large heavy full size truck, so many times we deviate from these basics and choose to live on the edge with a combo that has obvious shortcomings.

Since no one mentioned SRW except me, I can only assume you're referencing our Ram 3500 SRW towing our 5th wheel toy hauler. If so, you're assumption that we 'bought a SRW truck and the heaviest RV we could find' is totally inaccurate. Quite the opposite, we looked for one of the *lightest* 5th wheel toy haulers we could find. Loaded pin weight was 2.7k. Toy hauler weight loaded was 12.5k. Our truck has 4k of payload and is rated to tow almost 17k. Nothing close to the edge here. I assure you most DRW's pulling triple axle 5th wheel toy haulers are much, much closer to the edge, proportionally, than we were.

As for the OP choosing a short bed DRW, I see nothing wrong with somone giving up some turning radius with a trailer in return for the huge seating and storage space offered by that Megacab DRW rear seat. Nowadays, with manufacturers scalloping the front cap of their 5th wheels, it's very common for folks to use SB trucks to tow 5th wheels without a slider. Back-in-the-day, sliders were almost mandatory---not anymore.

There's nothing here that even remotely defines "living on the edge".