BontragerStandard 17BH

Bontrager lists the Standard 17BH at 2,300 lb dry, a GVWR of 3,320 lb, a net carrying capacity of 1,020 lb and a tongue weight of 320 lb. Its dry weight plus its carrying capacity comes to exactly its GVWR.

It is 18' long and 8' 8" high. Bontrager prints its tanks as 26 gal fresh, 18 gal grey, 17 gal black.

Among the 5 Standard floorplans Bontrager’s Standard model pages on bontrageroutdoors.com (no model year stated) lists with a published dry weight, it is number 4 from the lightest, in a range from 1,940 lb (Standard 15FK) to 2,560 lb (Standard 17MB). Every figure in that comparison is Bontrager’s, read from the same set of model pages.

Every number on this page was read on 6 Nov 2026 from Bontrager’s own Standard model pages on bontrageroutdoors.com (no model year stated) for the Standard 17BH, which names no model year; the figures are shown as the maker published them, and no year is claimed for them.

How the 17BH differs from the other four Standard floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity, 1,020 lb: third-smallest of five, between the 15RE (980 lb) and the 17FD (1,126 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 30.7%: third-smallest of five, between the 15RE (29.9%) and the 17FD (34.1%).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.9%: third-smallest of five, between the 17MB (12.5%) and the 17FD (14%).
• GVWR, 3,320 lb: highest of five, level with the 17MB; next is the 17FD (3,306 lb).
• Tongue weight, 320 lb: heaviest of five, level with the 17MB; next is the 17FD (306 lb).
• Fresh tank, 26 gal: largest of five, level with the 17FD; next are the 15FK, 15RE and 17MB (18 gal).
• Sleeping capacity, 4: largest of five, level with the 17FD; next are the 15RE and 17MB (3).
• Dry weight, 2,300 lb: shared with the 15RE; of five, two lighter and one heavier, nearest the 17FD (2,180 lb) and the 17MB (2,560 lb).

Next to the 17FD, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 17BH is 120 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 14 lb higher, has 106 lb less cargo capacity and has a tongue weight 14 lb heavier; the two publish the same length, exterior height, interior height, fresh tank, grey tank, black tank and sleeping capacity.

Next to the 15RE, the floorplan with the same dry weight, the 17BH has a GVWR 40 lb higher, has 40 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 40 lb heavier, is 2 ft 6 in longer, stands 2 in taller, has a fresh tank 8 gal larger, has a grey tank 5 gal smaller, has a black tank 6 gal smaller and sleeps one more; the two publish the same dry weight and interior height.

Next to the 17MB, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 17BH is 260 lb lighter by dry weight, has 260 lb more cargo capacity, has a fresh tank 8 gal larger and sleeps one more; the two publish the same GVWR, tongue weight, length, exterior height, interior height, grey tank and black tank.

Bontrager’s Standard model pages on bontrageroutdoors.com (no model year stated) lists 5 Standard floorplans; every one with a printed weight has a page here.

A full 26-gallon fresh tank is about 216 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 21% of the Standard 17BH’s 1,020 lb cargo capacity, leaving 804 lb (201 lb per rated berth). Across 5 Standard floorplans the water share runs 11% to 21%, and this plan’s is the highest. Nearest on that share: Standard 17MB at 20%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).