[dsent]

Hello Guys,

I maybe in the market for a new trailer for my business and toy hauling.

I currently have my truck set up with air bags and my 7k trailer with weight distributing hitch with e brakes.

My current trailer weighs 2200lbs empty.

I am looking at a new trailer which will be at least an aluminum 7-10k trailer with brakes which only weighs 1800lbs empty.

But I have thought about a gooseneck or 5th wheel with bed sliding hitch.

I think the truck will pull one these easier than a bumper pull.

But the down side is loosing all the covered bed space that my undercover lid and bed has to offer.


Any Ideas or opinions please?

 

[roastbeef]

are you just going to be towing an empty trailer around, or do you plan on using it for its full 7-10k pound capacity? because thats quite a bit more then nissan recommends.

 

[tholmes]

Can you even fit a goosneck hitch in the bed of our trucks? I thought the framing on them was so wide that it caused problems for the Titan guys to mod one and out it in. And you would likely lose the tailgate, I doubt anyone makes a louvered or 5th wheel type tailgate for a midsize p/u.

 

[devious1]

If you get that done I want to see pics! It sounds possible but everything would have to be built just for your truck and cost would add up quick. I would say to just a frame hitch and run with it, you said bumper pull so I am guessing you don't have one. You may be able to make it support the weight but next you have to worry about the motor and trans.

 

[mike]

http://www.clubfrontier.org/forums/f8/my-5th-wheel-46691/

 

[Irongrave]

The truck is only rated to tow 6000lbs max. It don't matter what mods you've done to it you can't change your GVW. If your towing a goose get a 2500 diesel truck, the frontier can tow it but it cant stop it safely and its not wide enough for a goose hitch to turn.

 

[LoopOut]

Wow. First I gotta say, I can't beleive someone put a 5th wheel in their Frontier. Thats crazy. I would have thought that pretty much any 5th wheel setup would have been over kill for our trucks. Thinking that sure you could put the receiver in, but what kind of goose neck trailers would be small enough to pull. But apperently it can be done. Ha. I didn't even know they made goose neck trailers small enough to not even put us over weight, with just the trailer???

 

[dsent]

Hello Guys

Thanks for the reply's. I do have frame hitch on my truck.

With my current set up my truck pulls fine, but because my empty trailer weighs so much it cut into how much I can put on my trailer.

I do not intend to haul loads like this one all the time other wise I would have kept my Titan. I had a 5th wheel slider setup in my Titan for a camper I pulled 26ft.

http://www.clubfrontier.org/forums/f8/first-full-load-behind-my-09-frontier-45765/

I have been pulling loads like this for the last 20 years, If you equip a truck and trailer correctly and have some common sense and drive safely it's not a problem. I guess those 3 years I drove semi truck when I was a teenager have really helped.

My main reason for a new trailer is because it would be aluminum and weigh less empty and would be better gas mileage when I haul our 2 ATVS for instance.

The price difference between a 7k and a 10K is only 400.00. I if I by one I would like to get the extra capacity of a 10k even though I can not pull 10k behind my Frontier. The weight difference between a 7k and a 10k aluminum trailer is only 2-300lbs and would still be less than my current 7k Steel wood deck trailer.

I am going to keep my frontier for at least another 4 years. I like my fronty because it drives like a car and smaller than the Titan, but really gets no better gas mileage than my Titan did.

I think my next truck I am going to go back to a Titan if Nissan is still making them.

Nissan is going to have to increase fuel mileage across most of their product range in the up coming years to meet the federal mandate for fuel mileage. I do not recall at the moment what that is but I think it's in the range of 25-30 .

 

[Mathster]

I dont pull a gooseneck with my frontier (altho, I have considered it), but I have pulled with the 3500 Gen2 Dodge at work.
If you ever pull a gooseneck trailer, you will not want to go back to a bumper pull.
The other side of pulling a gooseneck, it puts all the weight over the axle instead of three feet behind the axle. Depending on how your tagged and local laws, you may be able to haul up to axle limit instead of gvwr depending on tagging and laws.

 

[tholmes]

:wtf:

Can you even fit a goosneck hitch in the bed of our trucks? I thought the framing on them was so wide that it caused problems for the Titan guys to mod one and out it in. And you would likely lose the tailgate, I doubt anyone makes a louvered or 5th wheel type tailgate for a midsize p/u.

I guess I should have searched first, someone on here has a 5th wheel installed. My bad.