Jayco Eagle HT · 202326RU

The Eagle HT 26RU is one of Jayco's Eagle HT fifth wheels, the half-ton tier engineered to be towed by a properly equipped half-ton truck, below the full-size Eagle. This page covers one model year of it — the 2023 26RU, exactly as Jayco published it — because the numbers that decide whether your truck can pull this trailer are not the same from one year to the next. Jayco publishes it at 8' 0" wide closed and 11' 0" with the slide-outs run out for the 2023 model year, which is the measurement that matters for a site pitch as well as for the road.

For the 2023 model year Jayco published a 9,995-pound GVWR on a 7,805-pound dry weight, 2,190 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 1,150-pound dry pin weight. Check the loaded pin against the truck's payload and rear-axle ratings rather than against the tow rating alone. The 2023 coach left the factory on ST225/75R15'E' tyres; the load range in that code is part of the axle rating and a replacement set has to match it.

This is the earliest 26RU model year with a verified factory record in this catalogue. Later years are linked at the foot of the page, each with its own published figures.

A 2023 coach is 3 model years old as of 2026, which puts it squarely in used-buyer territory. Section 05 sets out what to inspect on a laminated-wall fifth wheel of this age — tyre date codes, roof and seam sealant, slide seals, and the soft-floor and delamination checks that separate a tidy coach from an expensive one.

2023 is the only model year this catalogue holds a verified factory record for the 26RU. That record is published here on its own, and it is not a general specification for the floorplan: Jayco revises published weights, ratings and even tire sizes from one model year to the next, so every figure below is evidence about 2023 and about no other year.

Fresh water is the single biggest line in this floorplan’s load plan. A full 81-gallon tank is about 31% of the 2,190-pound cargo capacity — enough that whether you tow with water aboard is a real decision on the 26RU rather than a detail.

The published dry pin weight of 1,150 pounds is 15% of this floorplan’s 7,805-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 9,995-pound GVWR the 26RU is towing 2,190 pounds more than its 7,805-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 81 gallons of fresh against 82 grey and 45 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 26RU sits 7 of 37 in the Eagle line: 9,995 pounds against a line that runs from 8,400 to 15,200 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Eagle 26REC matches it exactly at 9,995 lb GVWR; and Eagle 28BHU matches it exactly at 9,995 lb GVWR.

3 other Eagle plans share this floorplan’s 9,995 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Against the 26RU: the Reflection 22RK is 3 ft shorter; the Blackthorn 229RK is 50 lb lighter and 2 ft shorter. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest fifth wheels from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Eagle floorplans profiled here run 6,560 to 12,830 pounds dry and 28 to 43 feet of exterior length across 37 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Eagle line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 13 of them for the 26RU. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: slide count, axle count, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (95%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.