2018 Jayco Talon313T

The Talon 313T is one of Jayco's Talon fifth-wheel toy haulers, sitting beside the Seismic range and built around a rear garage behind the living space. This page covers one model year of it — the 2018 313T, exactly as Jayco published it — because the numbers that decide whether your truck can pull this trailer are not the same from one year to the next.

For the 2018 model year Jayco published a 16,000-pound GVWR on a 10,815-pound dry weight, 5,185 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 2,310-pound dry pin weight. A pin weight in that range lands well outside half-ton territory: plan on a three-quarter-ton or larger truck, and check the loaded pin against the truck's payload and rear-axle ratings rather than against the tow rating alone.

This is the earliest 313T model year with a verified factory record in this catalogue. Later years are linked at the foot of the page, each with its own published figures.

A 2018 coach is 8 model years old as of 2026, which puts it squarely in used-buyer territory. Section 05 sets out what to inspect on a laminated-wall fifth wheel of this age — tyre date codes, roof and seam sealant, slide seals, and the soft-floor and delamination checks that separate a tidy coach from an expensive one.

2018 is the earliest model year of the 313T that this catalogue has a verified factory record for, so there is no earlier year here to compare it against. The years we do publish run 2018 to 2019; each one is linked below.

Cargo capacity on the 313T is 5,185 pounds — the entire budget for gear, water, propane, batteries and everything else you put aboard.

The published dry pin weight of 2,310 pounds is 21% of this floorplan’s 10,815-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 16,000-pound GVWR the 313T is towing 5,185 pounds more than its 10,815-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Those are the nearest fifth wheels from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Seismic floorplans profiled here run 4,700 to 16,075 pounds dry and 21 to 47 feet of exterior length across 32 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Seismic line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 7 of them for the 313T. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: exterior length, exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (36%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.