Towing

7 posts in How-To Guides

Towing is where the numbers stop being theoretical. Pin weight, payload and axle ratings decide what you can legally pull long before comfort enters into it.

These guides cover matching a truck to a trailer, hitching to a gooseneck ball, the checklist we run before every travel day, greasing the suspension that carries all of it, and how to read a CAT scale ticket.

Our actual weights are in there, including a pin weight that landed closer to our limit than we expected.

Towing & Setup

RV Roadside Assistance: What It Covers, and What It Will Not Do

Published on Jul 31, 2026

We called roadside assistance fifteen minutes into a travel day with 21,000 pounds behind us. What we learned is that these plans are built for problems with names, and ours did not have one.

Towing & Setup

Our RV travel day checklist (and how we share it between two phones)

Published on Jul 24, 2026

The exact 30-item checklist we run before every travel day, why the oddball items earned their spot, and how to share one live list across two iPhones.

Towing & Setup

How to Tow a Fifth Wheel: What Truck You Need and How to Actually Do It

Published on Jul 22, 2026

Neither of us had towed anything before we bought a 17,700 pound fifth wheel. Here is what we learned about matching a truck to a trailer, hitching it, and getting down the road, with our real scale numbers.

Towing & Setup

How to Hitch a Fifth Wheel to a Gooseneck Ball

Published on Jul 15, 2026

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.

Towing & Setup

How to Stay Hitched Overnight in Your RV (The Level Test)

Published on Jul 15, 2026

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.

Maintenance & Repairs

How to Grease RV Wet Bolts (And Check Your Undercarriage)

Published on Jul 15, 2026

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.

Towing & Setup

How to Weigh Your RV at a CAT Scale

Published on Jul 15, 2026

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.