A fifth wheel on a gooseneck ball keeps your truck bed clear, but the hookup has its own steps. Here is the procedure we should have followed the day we hitched our Brinkley for the first time.
A one-night stop only saves time if you can skip the full unhitch-and-level routine. Here is the level check we run before deciding to stay connected to the truck, plus the tolerances that decide it.
Wet bolts are the greaseable pivot bolts in your trailer suspension, and most owners have never touched them. Here's the full undercarriage routine we run on our fifth wheel, done the way Lippert and Dexter say to do it.
A portable tote lets you stay parked for weeks and haul only the waste to the dump station. Here's the right way to fill, tow, and empty one, plus everything we got wrong trying it the first time.
The full CAT scale process for a truck and fifth wheel: two passes across the platforms, what the ticket numbers mean, and the mistakes we made on our first weigh.
