etrailer | B and W Companion Flatbed Gooseneck-to-5th-Wheel Trailer Hitch Adapter Review

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Today, we're gonna be taking a look at the B&W Companion flatbed gooseneck to 5th wheel hitch adapter, part number is BWRVK3050. Now the Companion 5th wheel for flatbeds is really gonna give you the best of both worlds in towing. You'll have your gooseneck that's already installed, you want to be sure you have a B&W underbed gooseneck mount hitch installed, and then this is just gonna be something you can fit in and get it torqued down with just a single bolt. So it really makes it quick and easy to switch between a 5th wheel if you need it, go back to your gooseneck. And the thing I like with this 5th wheel, when we don't have it installed, we're gonna have full access to our truck bed. So it's gonna go right back flat.

One of the big benefits of that turnoverball system, we're not gonna have a ball sticking up in the middle of the bed or rails running side to side. Now this particular truck is gonna have the CM Truck Bed's ER bed. This is gonna have the recess in it. The overall width of this is about 18 inches, and they've designed the B&W to fit right down in there. It's gonna have a total footprint width of about 17 3/4 of an inch.

And just so you know, from the back of it to the front here, it's about 18 inches. So not only does it work with the recess style like we have here, but also your traditional style flatbed, which would just have a single plane all the way across. Now, we've had a lot of good experiences with the B&W hitch line, but to go a little bit further, we like to look through what our customers had to say. One that really stood out to me was from Greg W. He said, "The hitch works perfectly.

Easy in and out when I need the whole truck bed. Awesome product." And we've talked about why we would want the flat bed Companion. Let's take a little bit deeper look at some of the features and what really sets this style apart from others available on the market. The one thing I like about this style setup is this isn't all in one unit. We could find an adapter that we could put down into the gooseneck and secure it down that would have 5th wheel rails.

It kind of looks like an H. Well, then you have to get a 5th wheel head to then put in your truck and add into those rails. By going this route, it's gonna give you the solution all in one unit with one bolt to tighten down, you're not gonna have multiple steps of getting this in and out, and I really like that. Or another thing I really like about this Companion set up, and really all of the B&W 5th wheel products, are the ease of use with our handles. This is gonna have a nice long handle and right up here, it's gonna offer a cam lever design. So as we open this, regardless of how much pressure we're putting on the dual jaws, we'll just release our clip here, and with that long lever and that cam design, it makes it really easy to open up our jaws. So even if our trailer has a little twist left or right, maybe it's pulling back a little bit or pushing forward a little bit, it's gonna be no issue releasing the jaws. Now the jaws are also a very high quality. You can see they're gonna be one inch thick. You've got dual jaws, so we have one that's gonna come in from each side and we've got a perfectly machined hole here to hold our king pin. What that does is, put our mock king pin in, it's gonna reduce any of that forward-and-back or left-to- right movement. That can lead to that chucking feeling that we sometimes get when starting and stopping, but also leads to noise. So by having that nice snug fit, we're gonna help to eliminate both of those. Now we also have a fully articulating head. That's gonna help to ease when we're hooking up and when we're disconnecting. Not only will it articulate front and back, and you can see if it gets pushed forward, it naturally wants to come back to a slightly tilted-back position that makes it easy when hooking up your trailer, but also the side to side. Unfortunately, we don't always get to park on level ground, or something like that when we need to unhook. And if we have any kind of twist in there, the head will go with that. With that articulation, it's gonna help to eliminate any issues with our handle being jammed and our king pin getting hung up as we try to unhook. And when you're ready to remove the system, it's really quite straightforward. You'll wanna start by removing the pin and clip located on each side. Now, with both those removed, we'll lift