01 What Cruiser RV publishes for the Essence
Cruiser RV, LLC lists 3 Essence trailers in its 2025 Essence brochure. Cruiser RV 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. Cruiser RV prints no cargo carrying capacity for any Essence floorplan, and this site does not compute one. (How the data is verified.)
02 Cruiser RV Essence models
Cruiser RV Essence · 3 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essence E25RK | 7,808 lb | Not published by Cruiser RV | 10,400 lb | 1,372 lb | 28-9½" | — | Profiled |
| Essence E28DB | 8,746 lb | Not published by Cruiser RV | 10,995 lb | 1,571 lb | 32-9½" | — | Profiled |
| Essence E28RL | 9,373 lb | Not published by Cruiser RV | 11,856 lb | 1,656 lb | 32-9½" | — | Profiled |
Read from Cruiser RV’s 2025 Essence brochure, 6 Nov 2026. “Not published” means the maker prints no figure; nothing is filled from another model, year or dealer.
03 Reading Cruiser RV’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 1 recall campaign affecting this line. The earliest was reported 27 Mar 2024 and the most recent 27 Mar 2024.
| Reported | Campaign | Component | What can go wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Mar 2024 | 24V235000 | Equipment | A circuit board that overheats increases the risk of a fire. |
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 the Cruiser RV Essence only, not the Damon Essence motor homes.
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.