ANDERSEN HITCHES | Rail Mount Hitch Kit | Towing Accessories | 11-1/2" Tall Base, 20,000 lbs GTWR, 4,500 lbs tongue weight | Fifth Wheel Black Rail Mounting | RV Camper Gooseneck Adapter | 3200

This thing is built solid, easy for me to put in the truck without a hoist. I love that I can connect and disconnect the fifthwheel without the truck being straight in line with the trailer. It fits into the rail system easily and looks great.

In late 2020, we bought a Ram 2500 Hemi with a Std bed and a 31ft FW. The FW had a Turning Point pin box which I thought was a brilliant concept. However, going down the Fwy onto a ramp onto another Fwy, there was a large "dip" in the ramp. Doing 55 mph in the turn, the wedge, which was properly installed, jumped out of the slot behind the hitch jaws and landed on top of the hitch plate at about 20 degrees. This threw the FW out of alignment and caused it to fishtail wildly. Luckily, there was no one along side of us because we would have taken them out. That's when I ordered the Andersen Hitch. I LOVE IT! Easy to install and hook up. No "chunking". Very smooth and light weight. The old hitch was 200 lbs, so this saved about 150 (enough for a queen Tempur Pedic in the bedroom!) The truck doesn't have to be in perfect alignment with the FW to hook up and easy to remove. We have the rail system so there was a little play up and down which I solved by taking 2 inch wide 1/8 inch thick neoprene pieces 6 inches long with the Andersen tab slots cut out between the hitch and the rails to cushion and prevent rubbing the paint off the rails. The 9 inch offset of this system also adds more clearance from the back window of the truck; nice!

This hitch was purchased to tow a 35' fifth wheel in a crew cab standard bed 4WD 3/4 ton pickup. ISR rails were chosen to help minimize weight added to the tow vehicle.The hitch pulls confidently and has very little bucking and is virtually silent, both unlike a kingpin fifth wheel. The hitch is very sturdy yet light and easy to remove and install. GCVW is around 19K lbs in my application for reference. I have not yet tried to turn to 90° but am pretty sure it would do it. The adapter did have to be installed 180° due to the short bed. Hooking up is easy. Weight transfer to the truck was fairly even lightening the front end at full load by <100 lbs as measured on a CAT scale. It was easy to get the trailer level with the tow vehicle level under load. No additional parts purchased or modified to make that happen in this case. Depends on vehicle and trailer specifics I expect.I will likely not consider a conventional fifth wheel hitch unless some future application demands it and will choose the Andersen again should I need to purchase another.2021 UPDATE: After a recent extreme cold snap, I noticed the plastic coupler insert laying on the ground beneath the RV. Presumably the heat cycling allowed the interference fit insert to fall out of the coupler. I contacted Andersen support, described the situation, and they are sending out an entire new coupler. This is exemplary customer service reaffirming that this hitch is the way to go if it fits one's needs. Over a year later, still would purchase and recommend this hitch.

After a ton of research and 10 years of 5th wheel hauling in short bed trucks with both manual sliders and fixed position hitches I can honestly say the Andersen hitch is the best solution for my truck and trailer. 2014 Ram 2500 turbo diesel double cab with 6.5’ bed pulling a 2019 Forest River Sandstorm 5th wheel toy hauler.I set up the bed hitch as directed with the ball closest to the tailgate the installed the pin adapter behind the pin. The offset created gave me just the clearance needed.It’s a solid ride and chucking has been reduced. It eliminated, I will be adding a Lippert Trailair pinbox and to achieve the best of both worlds.There is a significant safety benefit to this design, gone are the days of pushing your truck into the trailer to connect and pulling it out to disconnect. Those that have done this enough know the risk here in that you could drop the trailer onto the bed or worse.Now your lifting the trailer straight up then lowering it straight down on the new hitch, the risk has been greatly reduced. This always highlights the issue that your now raising and lowering your trailer with the landing more than ever, this increased use overtime could result in more maintenance and wear on your landing. To combat this issue I bought the Andersen level blocks which give me 8” of block and that much less landing gear travel.The Andersen Ultimate above bed rail mount hitch is a solid product for a great price.

On recommendation from a friend who tows with the AUH, I purchased this to haul my new-to-me Grand Design Solitude 377MBS. The hitch is rated for a trailer GTWR of 20,000lbs, and my trailer is 16,800 max. Very much like the ease of hitching up the 5th wheel - funnel allows some mismatch and still guides the ball into location.Was thinking of adding a removable flag to the locking handle to remind me the status of the latch. Very easy to operate the latch though.My bed rails need a slight adjustment to allow the hitch to drop in place - only 2 pins insert easily currently. I use a rubber mallet to install/remove the other two pins for now.