While I very much like the idea of a 5th wheel for a number of reasons Jim, I have been backing boats and travel trailers up for years with the old standard hitch stuff. I have read a few places that you have to learn all over again. Whippee.
Gail likes the 5.0 TA, though we have yet to step foot in one, or even get a look around the outside of one since we have gotten serious about buying one. (We have looked at them before.) She is very resistant to the cost of the apparatus necessary on the truck to tow one though. I think she's coming around. I have time to keep working on her.
Looks like I'll be a year out from getting a truck, but if nothing else, I have a real good idea of what I'm looking for when the time comes. I understand as well that Escape Industries is taking orders 7 months out now? Or is that tightening up? We would be looking at placing an order so we got ours in Spring of 2019.
I plan to sell our Parkliner next Spring, put that money in the bank, and keep adding to it over the year. We will see how it goes!
Frank