B&W Companion Fifth Wheel Slider Base, Base Only for RVK3775, 20,000 lb GTW, Powder Coat (RVB3775)

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Turning Clearance And When You Need A Slider

B&W walks through how much room a trailer actually needs between its nose and the back of the cab in a tight turn, and how to work out whether your truck and trailer combination needs the sliding version of the hitch. Worth confirming with a tape measure before you order, because cab-to-nose clearance is what decides whether a slider is the right call.

Installing A Head Leveling Kit

If your trailer sits nose-high or nose-low on the hitch, a head leveling kit is the fix. B&W shows what the kit does and how it goes on, which is worth understanding before you start shimming anything.

Companion Features

A run through the design details that separate the Companion from a budget fifth wheel hitch: the wrap-around jaws, the shock absorber, the polyurethane bushings and the two-piece design that lets one person carry it out of the bed in halves. Worth watching before you compare it against a cheaper hitch, because most of what separates them is in these details rather than in the tow rating.

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers on specs, fit and support

Will this tow a trailer on its own?

No. This is the sliding base ONLY. It is not a complete fifth wheel hitch: it has no coupler head, so it cannot hold a king pin and cannot tow anything on its own. The complete hitch is B&W RVK3775, which is this base plus the RVC3006 coupler head. A base with no coupler has nothing to grip the king pin with.

What is in the photo, and what is in the box?

The photo is B&W's own picture of the complete RVK3775 hitch, because B&W publishes no separate photograph of this component. In that photo, the lower structure is this base and the head sitting on top of it is the RVC3006 coupler. Only the base is in this box.

Why would I buy a base on its own?

Usually one of three reasons: a base has been damaged, you are moving a coupler head onto a different truck that needs a different base, or you already own a RVC3006 head from another B&W hitch. If you are starting from nothing, buy RVK3775 and get both halves.

Which coupler head goes with it?

RVC3006. It is listed separately in this range. Buying this base and that head together gives you the same hitch as RVK3775, and B&W's installation sheet for RVK3775 covers the assembly.

What does it weigh?

About 181 lb on its own, which is the tell that this is a sliding base: the fixed bases in this family run 78 lb to 96 lb and the sliding ones run 171 lb to 230 lb. That is one of the two boxes of a complete RVK3775, and it is worth knowing before it arrives on a pallet.

How much will it carry?

In the complete RVK3775 hitch, 20,000 lb gross trailer weight with 5,000 lb vertical pin weight. Those are the hitch's numbers. What you can actually tow is the lowest of the hitch rating, your truck's own fifth wheel rating on the door jamb, and, on a rail-mounted hitch, the rails underneath it. A base on its own carries no rating, because a rating only means something for an assembled hitch.