2025 CoachmenChaparral Lite 284RL

Coachmen lists the 2025 Chaparral Lite 284RL at 8,908 lb dry, a GVWR of 11,500 lb, a net carrying capacity of 2,592 lb and a pin weight of 1,434 lb. Its dry weight plus its carrying capacity comes to exactly its GVWR.

It is 34' 2" long and 12' high. Coachmen prints its tanks as 40 gal fresh, 66 gal grey, 33 gal black.

Among the 19 Chaparral floorplans Coachmen’s 2025 fifth-wheel brochure lists with a published dry weight, it is number 5 from the lightest, in a range from 6,950 lb (Chaparral Lite 235RK) to 13,080 lb (Chaparral 393MBX). Every figure in that comparison is Coachmen’s, for the same model year.

Every number on this page was read on 5 Nov 2026 from Coachmen’s 2025 fifth-wheel brochure, the maker’s own dated document for model year 2025.

How the 284RL differs from the other eighteen Chaparral floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 22.5%: third-largest of eighteen, between the 336TSIK (22.1%) and the 254RLS (23.3%).
• Dry weight, 8,908 lb: fifth-lightest of nineteen, between the 274BH (8,692 lb) and the 30RLS (8,981 lb).
• Pin weight, 1,434 lb: fifth-lightest of nineteen, between the 274BH (1,420 lb) and the 30RLS (1,445 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 2,592 lb: sixth-largest of nineteen, between the 360IBL (2,550 lb) and the 334FL (2,600 lb).
• Pin weight as a share of dry weight, 16.1%: shared with the 30RLS; of nineteen, one smaller and sixteen larger, nearest the 25RE (15.3%) and the 274BH and 30BHS (16.3%).
• Length, 34 ft 2 in: shared with the 30RLS; of nineteen, three shorter and fourteen longer, nearest the 254RLS (30 ft 9 in) and the 298RLS (34 ft 8 in).
• GVWR, 11,500 lb: shared with the 30BHS; of nineteen, five lower and twelve higher, nearest the 274BH and 30RLS (11,000 lb) and the 298RLS (12,000 lb).
• Exterior height, 12 ft: lowest of nineteen, level with the 235RK, 254RLS and four others; next is the 368TBH (12 ft 2 in).
• Grey tank, 66 gal: shared with the 235RK, 274BH and two others; of nineteen, two smaller and twelve larger, nearest the 254RLS and 25RE (33 gal) and the 334FL and 393MBX (85 gal).
• Black tank, 33 gal: smallest of nineteen, level with the 235RK, 254RLS and four others; next are the 298RLS, 334FL and four others (45 gal).
• Fresh tank, 40 gal: smallest of nineteen, level with the 235RK, 254RLS and five others; next are the 298RLS, 334FL and nine others (48 gal).

Next to the 274BH, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 284RL is 216 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb higher, has 284 lb more cargo capacity, has a pin weight 14 lb heavier and is 1 ft 9 in shorter; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 30RLS, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 284RL is 73 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb higher, has 573 lb more cargo capacity and has a pin weight 11 lb lighter; the two publish the same length, exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Coachmen’s 2025 fifth-wheel brochure lists 19 Chaparral floorplans; every one with a printed weight has a page here.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 13% of the Chaparral Lite 284RL’s 2,592 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,260 lb. Across 19 Chaparral floorplans the water share runs 13% to 22%, and 16 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Chaparral 367BH at 13% and Chaparral Lite 25RE at 13%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).