2021 Forest River Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels8298KS

The Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 8298KS leaves Forest River's factory at 9,998 lbs dry with 1,922 lbs of cargo capacity. Forest River publishes no GVWR for this line, so the loaded rating is not quoted on this page and is not computed from the other two figures. What the cargo number covers is defined by the factory: fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory come out of it. Fresh water is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling the 54-gallon fresh tank spends 448 lbs of the 1,922 lbs before anything else goes in.

Dry pin weight is 1,520 lbs, which is 15% 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 1,520 lbs over the bed. Read the payload figure on your own door sticker rather than a brochure maximum for the model.

Tank capacities are 54 gallons fresh, 90 grey and 50 black, 140 gallons of waste capacity against 54 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 Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels roster this is the 2nd of 2 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 9,940 lbs to 9,998 lbs. It is the heaviest plan in the line, so the tow vehicle should be settled before the floorplan is. 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 these figures is to stop planning against the dry weight. Nobody tows a trailer at 9,998 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity and this plan is already near 10,959 lbs on the road. Because Forest River publishes no loaded rating for this line, the ceiling has to come from the trailer's own weight label rather than from this page, and the comparison you make against the tow vehicle should use the loaded figure.

Every number above was read from one factory document: Forest River's own 2021 brochure for this line, and each figure was read back against that document's text before it was published. This is a single-channel record rather than the two-page cross-check this site runs on saved factory web pages, and it is described that way rather than dressed up as more. The brochure publishes no GVWR for this line, so the loaded rating is shown as not published and is never computed from dry weight plus cargo capacity. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because the brochure does not publish it, 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. 8298KS is a Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

The two plans are close together: 9,940 and 9,998 lb dry, pin weights of 1,555 and 1,520 lb, cargo capacity 2,015 and 1,922 lb. Both carry 54 gallons of fresh water, 90 of grey and 50 of black. Travel length is 36 ft 5 in and 37 ft 1 in. The practical difference between them is layout rather than capability - within 60 lb dry and 35 lb at the pin, they will tow the same and load the same, so the choice is about how the space is arranged.

A full 54-gallon fresh tank is about 450 lb of water, 23% of the 8298KS’s 1,922 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,472 lb. Across 15 Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels floorplans the water share runs 17% to 31%, and 5 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 8299SB at 22% and Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 8288SB at 25%.

Closest sibling: the Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 8299SB, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 4 of the 7 fields both publish (this plan first): length 37 ft 2 in vs 36 ft 0 in; dry weight 9,998 lb vs 9,940 lb; cargo capacity 1,922 lb vs 2,015 lb; dry hitch weight 1,520 lb vs 1,555 lb. They match on fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by dry weight: Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 8299SB is 58 lb lighter (9,940 lb dry); Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 8294BS is 211 lb heavier (10,209 lb dry).

All 15 Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels floorplans: Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels line hub.

Against the 8298KS: the Eagle 30.5MBOK is 28 lb lighter and 1 ft shorter; the Arctic Wolf 331BH is 84 lb lighter and 1 ft longer; the Reflection 303RLS is 102 lb heavier and 4 ft shorter.

9 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 8298KS. Not published: GVWR, interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning.

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