One of the biggest surprises we’ve discovered is there’s not a universal way to tow something. There’s so much to know, and everyone you talk to will tell you the same thing, but call it something different. So here is our challenges with getting a hitch. 

So here’s where we are at. We have the right truck now, we’ve purchased the fifth wheel so now all we need is a device, a contraption, a doohickey thingamabob to connect the trailer to the truck and off we go. Easy enough, right?? I mean there’s 5 holes in the bed of the truck to attach said hitch should be fairly straightforward. 

So we asked for a recommendation from the RV salesman. He said we should get a B&W Companion sliding hitch. We have a short bed truck so the hitch should slide so that at slow speeds when you are maneuvering, the hitch can slide so the front of your fifth wheel doesn’t collide with the cab of your truck (bad news). Okay so we start calling around to see if we can pick this up. The first guy we talk to doesn’t recommend B&W, instead suggests we get a PullRite because it’s an automatic hitch. He starts asking if we have a Puck system. What the puck??? What is that?? Turns out that is the 5 holes in the bed of the truck. Well he doesn’t have one. So we start looking online. 

Going online, we discover that PullRite is not making the automatic slider hitch for our model of truck since there was a slight change in the positioning of the pucks. Well that was a waste. Back to the B&W....but....it’s a manual slider which would mean I would have to get out of the truck, pull some lever, in order for the hitch to slide. I’m imagining it will be raining whenever I need to do this. Not a fan.