2026 Forest River Puma Tracks3150TBSS

The Puma Tracks 3150TBSS leaves Forest River's factory at 6,753 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 8,743 lbs and 1,990 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 23% of the loaded rating, and Forest River's own definition is worth reading before you plan against it: cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 42-gallon fresh tank spends 349 lbs of that 1,990 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry tongue weight is 880 lbs, or 13% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside it as published. Tongue weight is not fixed: it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A weight-distribution hitch is the normal fitment at this tongue load, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit.

Tank capacities are 42 gallons fresh, 76 grey and 38 black, 114 gallons of waste capacity against 42 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. Forest River publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Puma Tracks roster this is the 9th of 14 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 4,728 lbs to 8,298 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read the pair of weights is to stop planning against the dry figure. Nobody tows a trailer at 6,753 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity, which is modest for a family trip, and this plan is already near 7,748 lbs on the road. Compare that number against the tow vehicle, not the dry weight, and leave margin on top of it - the published GVWR of 8,743 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was captured twice from Forest River and checked against itself before it was published. The line roster block and the individual floorplan page are two separate factory renderings of the same trailer, and this plan's 4 shared figures agree exactly on both. Dry weight plus cargo capacity also equals the published GVWR exactly, which is the arithmetic check this site runs on every profiled floorplan. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because Forest River does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

Forest River publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 3150TBSS is a Puma Tracks designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Tracks sits above Camping Edition and below the destination and fifth-wheel tiers, and it is the part of the Puma range where a half-ton truck is the honest minimum rather than an optimistic one. Dry weight runs 4,728 to 8,298 lbs with hitch weights from 585 to 1,080 lbs, and hitch weight is the figure that decides whether a given truck copes: it comes straight off the tow vehicle's payload before passengers and gear. Every plan in the class publishes a GVWR and every one of them ties out against its own unloaded weight and cargo capacity, which is not true of every Puma tier.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 42-gallon fresh tank is roughly 18% of the 1,990-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 3150TBSS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 880 pounds is 13% of the 6,753-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 8,743-pound GVWR the 3150TBSS is towing 1,990 pounds more than its 6,753-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 42 gallons of fresh against 76 grey and 38 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 3150TBSS sits 9 of 14 in the Puma Tracks line: 8,743 pounds against a line that runs from 6,313 to 10,260 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: Puma Tracks 2750BHS is 1,093 pounds lighter at 7,650 lb GVWR; and Puma Tracks 3200TSBH is 652 pounds heavier at 9,395 lb GVWR.

Against the 3150TBSS: the Coachmen Catalina 283RKS is 7 lb lighter and 4 ft shorter; the Jay Feather 26FK is 43 lb lighter and 3 ft shorter; the Access 24RB is 57 lb heavier and 7 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 travel trailers 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 Puma Tracks floorplans profiled here run 4,728 to 8,298 pounds dry and 26 to 38 feet of exterior length across 14 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 Puma Tracks line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 11 of them for the 3150TBSS. 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: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, 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 (85%) 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.