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I have seen a few Open Range 5er's in various CG's that are being used by full timers. I have never looked inside any of them, but they are happy with them.
As far as your truck, you need to find what the GVWR and GCWR is. Then you fill the fuel tank, load it up with gear that you will put in the truck for a trip, put all you passengers (including pets) and head out to a truck stop or somewhere that you can weigh the truck. Once you have the trucks weight, you can determine how much pin weight you can handle.
When looking at a 5er, always used the GVWR of the trailer. 20% of the GVWR can be used to figure pin weight. EX: a 10,000 # GVWR trailer you will have about 2,000# pin weight. This works well enough for calculation purposes.
Take the calculated pin weight and add the truck weight. The sum cannot exceed the GVWR of the truck. Then take the GVWR of the trailer and add it to the trucks weight. The sum cannot exceed the GCWR of the truck. Third, when you weighed your truck, the report you got will show the weight on the front and rear axles. Add the pin weight to the weight on the rear axle from the report. This sum cannot exceed the GAWR of the rear axle.
Hope this helps.
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John, Joyce and Zoie (our 17# Guard Dog)
2018 Ford F-450 KR / 2019 Mobile Suites 40KSSB4
Fulltiming since 2008 and loving it
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