East to WestBlackthorn

Blackthorn is the fifth-wheel end of the East to West range, and it is the one East to West roster where the loaded rating is a published factory number rather than a gap. All seven floorplans carry a GVWR and all seven tie out exactly against dry weight plus cargo capacity -- 9,945 lb at the light end to 16,350 lb at the top. The roster splits in two. Two plans sit in the factory's half-ton grouping at 7,324 and 8,579 lb dry with 1,145 and 1,320 lb on the pin; the other five run 10,864 to 13,439 lb dry with 2,120 to 2,350 lb on the pin. Every one of the seven is a fifth wheel, so that pin load comes off the truck's payload rating rather than its towing rating, and the half-ton grouping is a statement about weight rather than about hitch type. Cargo capacity runs 2,621 to 3,876 lb, and lengths run 28 ft 1 in to 42 ft 1 in.

Across the whole Blackthorn roster the published dry weights run from 7,324 lbs to 13,439 lbs, cargo capacities from 2,621 lbs to 3,876 lbs, and dry pin weights from 1,145 lbs to 2,350 lbs. Exterior lengths run 28 to 42 feet. Those are East to West's figures for a standard build, captured from the factory roster block and confirmed against each floorplan's own factory page.

East to West publishes a GVWR for 7 of the 7 floorplans, and on 7 of those the arithmetic ties out exactly: dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published rating to the pound. That check is run on every plan before it is profiled here, and a plan that fails it is catalogued with the disagreement printed rather than quietly corrected.

7 of the 7 Blackthorn floorplans are profiled in full below, each on its own page with the complete factory weight, dimension and tank block. The profiled set is spread across the weight range rather than taken from one end of it, so the lightest and heaviest plans in the line are both represented. Every plan profiled here publishes a full field set and, where East to West publishes a GVWR, passes the dry-plus-cargo arithmetic check.

The remaining 0 Blackthorn floorplans are catalogued here from the factory's published figures. A plan is catalogued rather than profiled when the factory has not yet published its full field set, when its own published figures disagree with each other, or simply because the profiled set is capped. Nothing in this table is estimated.

Sort this line by the constraint you actually have. If the truck is fixed, start at the weight column: the lightest plan in the roster is the 229RK at 7,324 lbs dry and the heaviest is the 3820DSL at 13,439 lbs, and that spread is wide enough that the two ends are not the same buying decision. If the truck is not fixed, sort by cargo capacity instead - the 3865FLR carries the most at 3,876 lbs, and payload is the number that runs out first on a long trip.

Do not sort by floorplan number. East to West's codes encode length loosely and layout not at all, and this site does not decode them into layout claims. Two plans with adjacent numbers in this roster can differ by hundreds of pounds of dry weight and by more than that in dry pin weight, which is the figure that determines what the truck has to be.

Where East to West publishes a floorplan description it is quoted on the plan page and identified as factory marketing copy rather than a specification. Where it publishes none, the plan page says so instead of describing a layout that nobody has verified. That is the difference between a catalogue and a brochure.