2026 Highland Ridge Roamer Light Duty28DBSS

The Roamer Light Duty 28DBSS leaves Highland Ridge's factory at 8,525 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 9,995 lbs and 1,470 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 15% of the loaded rating, and Highland Ridge'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 51-gallon fresh tank spends 423 lbs of that 1,470 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry pin weight is 1,630 lbs, which is 19% of the dry weight. That figure lands on the truck's rear axle and comes straight off its payload rating - not its towing rating, which is the number most often quoted and the wrong one for this decision. Pin weight rises as the trailer is loaded, and a fifth wheel loaded toward its cargo capacity will put substantially more than 1,630 lbs over the bed. Read the payload figure on your own door sticker rather than a brochure maximum for the model.

Tank capacities are 51 gallons fresh, 82 grey and 45 black, 127 gallons of waste capacity against 51 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. Highland Ridge publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Roamer Light Duty roster this is the 5th of 7 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,075 lbs to 9,820 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line. 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 8,525 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 9,260 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 9,995 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was captured twice from Highland Ridge 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 0 shared figures agree could not be compared 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 Highland Ridge does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

Highland Ridge 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. 28DBSS is a Roamer Light Duty designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Roamer Light Duty is Highland Ridge's half-ton fifth-wheel roster, and for 2026 it is not a single body type: Highland Ridge files four of its seven floorplans as fifth wheels and three as travel trailers. Five reach a full profile here, 7,075 lb to 8,790 lb dry across 29 to 34 feet. The hitch figures separate the two halves cleanly, 1,430 to 1,644 lb of pin weight against 850 lb of tongue weight, and each plan's page states which it is rather than inheriting the line name. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly on all five.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 51-gallon fresh tank is roughly 29% of the 1,470-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 28DBSS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 1,630 pounds is 19% of this floorplan’s 8,525-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 28DBSS is towing 1,470 pounds more than its 8,525-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 51 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 28DBSS sits 4 of 5 in the Roamer Light Duty line: 9,995 pounds against a line that runs from 9,400 to 10,600 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: Roamer Light Duty 274BHS is 495 pounds lighter at 9,500 lb GVWR; and Roamer Light Duty 304BHS is 605 pounds heavier at 10,600 lb GVWR.

Against the 28DBSS: the Eagle 25.5REOK is 6 ft shorter; the Reflection 22RK is 8 ft shorter; the Blackthorn 229RK is 50 lb lighter and 6 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 Roamer Light Duty floorplans profiled here run 7,075 to 8,790 pounds dry and 29 to 34 feet of exterior length across 5 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 Roamer Light Duty line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 11 of them for the 28DBSS. 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 (100%) 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.