Fifth Wheels with Long bed truck cover

[CLHEJ]

Hello all. I am pretty excited after several years of waiting I am finally upgrading to a 5th wheel. Two years ago I purchased the truck that would accept our 5th Wheel, so I am ready to go.

Question is - I have a long bed Ram 3500. Currently has a quad fold bed cover on it. Do i have to remove the entire thing to pull the 5th wheel?

What do the rest of you all do in this case?

Thanks in advance!
Craig

[Allworth]

My long bed has a Pace Edwards retractable cover thanks to a birthday gift from the kids.

I built a plywood partition across the bed just forward of the hitch and the cover will lock at this position. Gives me a "semi-secure" truck box when the trailer is on the hitch.

[JAC1982]

bucky wrote:
No need to remove it if you can latch it folded forward of the hitch. The resulting cave is great for keeping things from blowing out while traveling.
Anything between the hitch and the tail gate better be heavy enough to ignore the vacuum created in that area. It even lifts the nose of my 35 gal tote, and took away a fairly heavy rug. I now put the tote in the aforementioned cave or tie it down if other things are already there.

We learned this the hard way with a couple of very heavy plywood cornhole boards (pre-bed cover) on I-80 in WY... those things went flying all over. Thankfully didn't damage anything or fall out.

[JAC1982]

We also have the Bakflip with our long bed, and it works fine when it's folded up.

[dpgllg]

I have a long bed Chevy with trifold cover. I can tow with cover folded and latched.

The best thing to do is to hitch up and go to empty parking lot and make some turns with someone watching just in case folded cover is to high and makes contact with 5th wheel. With the rounded fronts on the 5th wheels should not be a problem.

Dave

[RobWNY]

I have a 2017 Ram 3500 with the short box and have a 4 panel BakFlip MX4 tonneau cover. I keep it on when towing our fifth wheel. No issue at all with the first panel in place and the others folded up on top of it and buckled in place.

[bucky]

No need to remove it if you can latch it folded forward of the hitch. The resulting cave is great for keeping things from blowing out while traveling.
Anything between the hitch and the tail gate better be heavy enough to ignore the vacuum created in that area. It even lifts the nose of my 35 gal tote, and took away a fairly heavy rug. I now put the tote in the aforementioned cave or tie it down if other things are already there.