Jayco Eagle HT · 2024–202629RLC

The Eagle HT 29RLC is the rear-living half-ton fifth wheel — dual opposing slides open the back of the coach into a wide combined kitchen and living area, with theater seating or a tri-fold sofa facing an entertainment center and fireplace. A private front bedroom with an Olympic queen sits up in the raised nose. It is a genuinely spacious couples’ fifth wheel that still aims at half-ton trucks, in a 34-foot length.

It runs 4-Star Handling — Goodyear Endurance tires, MORryde CRE-3000 suspension — with an 11,200-pound GVWR on a 9,485-pound dry weight, leaving 1,715 pounds of payload. The dry pin weight is about 1,595 pounds, within reach of a properly equipped half-ton, and the build carries the Eagle HT residential touches: Stronghold VBL™ walls, an 8-foot-6 ceiling, a 52-gallon fresh tank, an 82-gallon gray and a 10 cubic-foot refrigerator.

It sleeps four but is really a couples’ coach with room for guests, at an MSRP near $61,000. For buyers who want the open rear-living fifth-wheel experience without a three-quarter-ton truck, the dual-slide 29RLC is the comfort pick of the Eagle HT fifth wheels.

This floorplan has a verified factory record for 3 model years here, 2024 to 2026, and the specification does not hold still. Across those years GVWR ranges from 10,750 lb in 2024 to 11,200 lb in 2026, a spread of 450 lb; dry weight ranges from 9,175 lb in 2025 to 9,485 lb in 2026, a spread of 310 lb; dry pin weight ranges from 1,595 lb in 2025 to 1,690 lb in 2024, a spread of 95 lb. Even the published sleeping capacity moves (4 and 6). That is why each model year has its own page below, carrying only its own published figures. Nothing on a year page is copied across from a neighbouring year.

Jayco's Eagle is the brand's premium towable family, and it splits three ways. The full-size Eagle is the flagship fifth wheel — Stronghold VBL™ laminated walls, 5-Star Handling, the HELIX dual-15,000-BTU cooling system and a 16 cubic-foot residential refrigerator. The Eagle HT ("half-ton") line is engineered to be towable by a properly equipped half-ton truck, and Jayco offers it as both a fifth wheel and a travel trailer — lighter, 4-Star Handling with Goodyear Endurance tires, and lower pin or tongue weights. The 29RLC on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The full Eagle catalogue runs to dozens of floorplans across all three; the highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.

A full 52-gallon fresh tank is about 434 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 25% of the 29RLC’s 1,715 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,281 lb (320 lb per rated berth). Across 32 Eagle fifth-wheel floorplans the water share runs 21% to 33%, and 22 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Eagle 29DDB at 25% and Eagle 30RLT at 26%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).

Closest sibling: the Eagle 30RLT, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 5 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 34 ft 1 in vs 33 ft 9 in; dry weight 9,485 lb vs 9,205 lb; GVWR 11,200 lb vs 10,900 lb; cargo capacity 1,715 lb vs 1,695 lb; dry hitch weight 1,595 lb vs 1,650 lb. They match on sleeps, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Eagle 30.5MLOK is 200 lb lighter (11,000 lb GVWR); Eagle 28CRT is 200 lb heavier (11,400 lb GVWR).

All 81 Eagle floorplans: Eagle line hub.

Against the 29RLC: the Cougar 26RKE is 200 lb lighter and 3 ft shorter and sleeps 2 more; the Reflection 28RL is 205 lb lighter and 3 ft shorter; the Blackthorn 279BH is 320 lb heavier and 1 ft shorter.

17 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 29RLC. Not published: awning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.