2025 CoachmenChaparral Lite 30RLS

Coachmen lists the 2025 Chaparral Lite 30RLS at 8,981 lb dry, a GVWR of 11,000 lb, a net carrying capacity of 2,019 lb and a pin weight of 1,445 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 6 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 30RLS differs from the other eighteen Chaparral floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity, 2,019 lb: fifth-smallest of nineteen, between the 373MBRB (1,969 lb) and the 375BAF (2,078 lb).
• Dry weight, 8,981 lb: sixth-lightest of nineteen, between the 284RL (8,908 lb) and the 30BHS (9,535 lb).
• Pin weight, 1,445 lb: sixth-lightest of nineteen, between the 284RL (1,434 lb) and the 30BHS (1,553 lb).
• Pin weight as a share of dry weight, 16.1%: shared with the 284RL; of nineteen, one smaller and sixteen larger, nearest the 25RE (15.3%) and the 274BH and 30BHS (16.3%).
• GVWR, 11,000 lb: shared with the 274BH; of nineteen, three lower and fourteen higher, nearest the 254RLS and 25RE (9,800 lb) and the 284RL and 30BHS (11,500 lb).
• Length, 34 ft 2 in: shared with the 284RL; of nineteen, three shorter and fourteen longer, nearest the 254RLS (30 ft 9 in) and the 298RLS (34 ft 8 in).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 18.4%: ninth-smallest of eighteen, between the 360IBL (18.2%) and the 298RLS (20.2%).
• 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 284RL, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 30RLS is 73 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb lower, has 573 lb less cargo capacity and has a pin weight 11 lb heavier; the two publish the same length, exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 30BHS, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 30RLS is 554 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb lower, has 54 lb more cargo capacity, has a pin weight 108 lb lighter and is 2 ft 10 in shorter; the two publish the same 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), 16% of the Chaparral Lite 30RLS’s 2,019 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,687 lb. Across 19 Chaparral floorplans the water share runs 13% to 22%, and 7 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Chaparral 298RLS at 16% and Chaparral 393MBX at 16%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).