Premier 5th Wheel & Gooseneck Hitches - Towing Redefined

5th Wheel Hitch Installation Made Easy

Some people like to slide stuff into the truck's bed, and the hitch pictured below makes that easier. Where the entire fifth-wheel trailer hitch comes out when you're not using it, other than the rails that stick up about an inch. If you have a bedliner, we normally, rather than cut into it, even out the surface by adding extra pieces of flat and round steel to drill through, so having a bedliner is not a problem.

Air Ride Trailer Hitch

An air ride trailer hitch is a piece of equipment that alleviates the stress on your trailer from bumpy roads through the 5th wheel connection. The air ride system absorbs the shocks your trailer takes as you drive down the road.

Many heavy equipment trailers, car haulers, and stock and horse trailers have a special coupling system called a gooseneck hitch. A gooseneck hitch is similar to a fifth-wheel trailer hitch in that it is mounted through the truck bed. It, however, utilizes a large removable ball that attaches the trailer to the truck. These hitches can handle loads up to 30,000 lbs!

Turnover Ball Systems Available

The great news about gooseneck hitches is that the type we normally install, made by B & W Trailer Hitches, is a turnover ball system. That means when you are not towing, you can remove the ball sticking up in your truck's bed, turn it upside down, and lock it into the hole, which leaves you a flat truck bed for loading materials.

You may wonder if installing a 5th-wheel trailer or gooseneck hitch on your shortbed pickup truck is possible.

Well, the short answer is: MAYBE.

Special equipment hitches called "sliding fifth-wheel hitches" may allow you to tow a fifth-wheel trailer with your short-bed pickup. It's a situation where some measurements must be taken of your truck and the trailer you wish to tow before you can tell.

Proper Hitching Procedures for 5th Wheel Trailers