01 What Heartland publishes for the Bighorn Traveler
Heartland Recreational Vehicles, a Thor Industries company, of Elkhart, Indiana, lists 7 Bighorn Traveler fifth wheels in its 2023 Bighorn Traveler brochure. Heartland prints a dry weight for every one profiled here, and each has a page of its own. It prints a GVWR for every one too. Heartland prints no cargo carrying capacity for any Bighorn Traveler floorplan, and this site does not compute one. (How the data is verified.)
02 Heartland Bighorn Traveler models
Heartland Bighorn Traveler · 7 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bighorn Traveler 32RS | 10,803 lb | Not published by Heartland | 15,500 lb | 2,047 lb | 36' 2 3/8" | 3-4 | Profiled |
| Bighorn Traveler 37RD | 11,996 lb | Not published by Heartland | 15,500 lb | 2,658 lb | 41' 7 3/8" | 5-6 | Profiled |
| Bighorn Traveler 37FB | 12,115 lb | Not published by Heartland | 16,000 lb | 2,913 lb | 42' 4 1/8" | 3-4 | Profiled |
| Bighorn Traveler 37TB | 12,115 lb | Not published by Heartland | 16,000 lb | 2,913 lb | 42' 5" | 7-8 | Profiled |
| Bighorn Traveler 39MB | 12,654 lb | Not published by Heartland | 16,000 lb | 2,366 lb | 42' 6" | 7-8 | Profiled |
| Bighorn Traveler 37DB | 12,994 lb | Not published by Heartland | 15,500 lb | 2,580 lb | 42' 7 3/8" | 7-8 | Profiled |
| Bighorn Traveler 38FL | 13,450 lb | Not published by Heartland | 16,000 lb | 2,970 lb | 42' 1 7/8" | 5-6 | Profiled |
Read from Heartland’s 2023 Bighorn Traveler brochure, 5 Nov 2026. “Not published” means the maker prints no figure; nothing is filled from another model, year or dealer.
03 Reading Heartland’s figures
A maker’s published weight is for a base trailer; options and dealer-installed equipment add weight to any particular unit. The federal weight label inside the trailer carries its own unloaded weight, cargo carrying capacity and GVWR (49 CFR 567 and 571.120): read it on the unit itself before any towing decision.
05 Recalls
NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns affecting this line. The earliest was reported 13 Feb 2020 and the most recent 28 Aug 2020.
| Reported | Campaign | Component | What can go wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2020 | 20V521000 | Equipment | If the landing legs buckle, the trailer will drop unexpectedly, increasing the risk of property damage, personal injury or death. |
| 13 Feb 2020 | 20V084000 | Equipment | In the event of a fire, the smoke detector may not provide adequate warning for the occupants to be able to escape safely, increasing the risk of injury. |
Coverage is not complete: this list is a starting point, not a clearance (how it is built), so check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy and again before you tow.
This count covers campaigns NHTSA files under the Bighorn Traveler name only; campaigns filed under the plain Bighorn name count on the Bighorn page.
06 Owner-reported problems
A sweep of NHTSA’s complete complaint file — every safety-defect complaint NHTSA has received since 1 January 1995, matched on NHTSA’s own model field under every name this site publishes for the line — found no complaint naming this line. Treat that as no report found, not as a clean record: owners file under whatever name they were sold, and a newer or lower-volume line simply has fewer owners to file.
How this count is drawn. A report is counted here only when NHTSA’s own model field names this line. What the owner typed in the description is never used to attribute a report: our line names are ordinary English words, and an owner writing “imagine my surprise when the axle went” or naming the state of Montana is not reporting a Grand Design Imagine or a Keystone Montana.
Read these as reports, not as findings. Complaints are submitted by owners and NHTSA does not verify them; no complaint here has been confirmed as a defect, and none of them is a recall. The sample is also self-selected — only owners motivated to file appear in it — so a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Use the pattern, not the total: a component that keeps recurring is worth inspecting on any used unit. File or search complaints at NHTSA.