01 What Gulf Stream publishes for the Trail Boss
Gulf Stream Coach lists 5 Trail Boss travel trailers in its Trail Boss model pages on gulfstreamcoach.com (no model year stated). Gulf Stream prints a dry weight for every one profiled here, and each has a page of its own. It prints no GVWR for any of them. It prints a net carrying capacity for 5; with no GVWR printed, the check that dry weight plus carrying capacity equals the GVWR cannot be made. (How the data is verified.)
02 Gulf Stream Trail Boss models
Gulf Stream Trail Boss · 5 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trail Boss 109OK | 1,510 lb | 2,250 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 240 lb | 11' 10" | — | Profiled |
| Trail Boss 160FK | 2,120 lb | 1,700 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 320 lb | 15' 6" | — | Profiled |
| Trail Boss 170RQ | 2,410 lb | 1,450 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 360 lb | 18' 2" | — | Profiled |
| Trail Boss 140BH | 2,510 lb | 1,330 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 340 lb | 18' 2" | — | Profiled |
| Trail Boss 150RD | 2,910 lb | 1,020 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 300 lb | 15' 10" | — | Profiled |
Read from Gulf Stream’s Trail Boss model pages on gulfstreamcoach.com (no model year stated), 6 Nov 2026. “Not published” means the maker prints no figure; nothing is filled from another model, year or dealer.
03 Reading Gulf Stream’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.
04 Documents
05 Recalls
NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns affecting this line. The earliest was reported 2 Feb 2024 and the most recent 15 Jan 2026.
| Reported | Campaign | Component | What can go wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jan 2026 | 26V010000 | Exterior lighting | Turn signals that fail to indicate the driver's intention to change direction increase the risk of a crash. |
| 2 Feb 2024 | 24V067000 | Equipment | Incorrect tire information could result in improperly inflated tires or the wrong tires being installed on the trailer, increasing the risk of a crash. |
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 Gulf Stream Trail Boss only, not the Polaris or Bison Trail Boss.
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.