Gooseneck trailer behind a road tractor with 5th wheel?

[jasonleonard]

I am looking at pulling my gooseneck stock trailer behind a tractor truck.
Is there a conversion you can get to snap in the jaws of the 5th wheel, and do they work good?

 

[M5farm]

Most of the tractor trucks I see have a goose neck ball mounted to the frame behind the 5th wheel hitch if the helps any.

 

[Nesikep]

My friend put a flat deck on a tractor with a 5th wheel hitch, and got rid of one of the axles.. he tows a really really big horse trailer with it.. used to do a lot of horse racing

 

[dun]

All it takes is a different end on the drop down part of the trailer hitch. The ones for RV 5th wheels will work or they used to anyway. I had an old 5th wheel 20 some foot RV with a turntable type hitch in the back of the truck similar to the one on the big rigs. Bought a gooseneck trailer and they just changed the standard gooseneck tube deal with one that fit the hitch in the truck. When I sold the truck I put a standard gooseneck ball in the bed and just traded the tube I had on the gooseneck to the standard that takes the ball.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

You can get a hitch that will hook the 5th wheel.

 

[jltrent]

You can get a hitch that will hook the 5th wheel.

+1
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bulldog-0289640 ... a4&vxp=mtr

 

[SmokinM]

From what I have seen a pickup 5th wheel has smaller kingpin than a road tractor so the adapter wouldn't work for this application unless you made it with the right size pin. Like M5 says most of the ones I see have the ball mounted behind the plate if they have both on it. You have enough truck you don't have to worry to much about it being past the c/l of the axle. See a lot of them around and have considered going to one myself as my pour pickup is overloaded most of the time. Used to be you could pickup a single axle tractor here for about $3,500 so can't buy a good pickup for that. Think they have gone up a good bit lately tho.

 

[skyhightree1]

From what I have seen a pickup 5th wheel has smaller kingpin than a road tractor so the adapter wouldn't work for this application unless you made it with the right size pin. Like M5 says most of the ones I see have the ball mounted behind the plate if they have both on it. You have enough truck you don't have to worry to much about it being past the c/l of the axle. See a lot of them around and have considered going to one myself as my pour pickup is overloaded most of the time. Used to be you could pickup a single axle tractor here for about $3,500 so can't buy a good pickup for that. Think they have gone up a good bit lately tho.

Smokin you still can but they will be a cab over and the tiny cabover with no sleeper.

 

[Angus Cowman]

Yes you can buy a hitch that slides right in in place of your gooseneck hitch
Have had several of them cost around $125 iirc
Check with Redneck Trailer supply

 

[Angus Cowman]

http://catalog.redneck-trailer.com/adva ... SBCatPage=