2026 Forest River Sandstorm / Stealth / Shockwave2730

The Sandstorm 2730 leaves Forest River's factory at 8,429 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 13,470 lbs and 5,041 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 37% 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 102-gallon fresh tank spends 847 lbs of that 5,041 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 1,470 lbs, 17% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and counts against the tow vehicle’s tongue-weight and payload limits (tongue weight by size).

Off hookups: 124 gallons of grey and black capacity against 102 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Sandstorm travel-trailer roster this is the 3rd of 5 travel trailers by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,439 lbs to 9,399 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 8,429 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 10,949 lbs, and the published GVWR of 13,470 lbs is the limit (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

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. 2730 is a Sandstorm designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 2730 differs from the other four Sandstorm travel trailers. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Grey tank, 82 gal: largest of five; next are the 2215, 2513 and two others (80 gal).
• Cargo capacity, 5,041 lb: second-largest of five, between the 2900 (4,456 lb) and the 2215 (5,300 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 37.4%: second-largest of five, between the 2513 (33.1%) and the 2215 (41.6%).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 17.4%: second-largest of five, between the 2600 (17.2%) and the 2900 (19.7%).
• Dry weight, 8,429 lb: third-lightest of five, between the 2513 (7,629 lb) and the 2600 (9,129 lb).
• GVWR, 13,470 lb: third-lowest of five, between the 2215 (12,739 lb) and the 2600 (13,570 lb).
• Tongue weight, 1,470 lb: third-lightest of five, between the 2513 (1,230 lb) and the 2600 (1,570 lb).
• Length, 34 ft 1 in: third-shortest of five, between the 2513 (30 ft) and the 2600 (34 ft 9 in).
• Black tank, 42 gal: largest of five, level with the 2600; next are the 2215, 2513 and 2900 (40 gal).

Next to the 2513, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 2730 is 800 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 2,070 lb higher, has 1,270 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 240 lb heavier, is 4 ft 1 in longer, stands 3 in taller, has a grey tank 2 gal larger and has a black tank 2 gal larger; the two publish the same fresh tank.

Next to the 2600, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 2730 is 700 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 100 lb lower, has 600 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 100 lb lighter, is 8 in shorter and has a grey tank 2 gal larger; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank and black tank.

Sandstorm is a toy-hauler roster published under three badges at once, and the first useful thing to know about it is that Sandstorm, Stealth and Shockwave are the same sixteen trailers. Not similar - the same floorplan codes, the same dry weights, the same cargo capacities, the same tanks, checked field by field. So a shopper cross-shopping the three badges is cross-shopping one product, and the choice between them is a dealer question rather than a trailer question. Within that roster there are two real classes. Five plans are travel trailers, 7,439 to 9,399 lb dry with 1,155 to 1,855 lb on the tongue. Seven are fifth wheels, 9,459 to 15,749 lb dry with 2,165 to 3,765 lb on the pin. The lightest fifth wheel outweighs the heaviest bumper pull, so the two halves do not overlap and no plan here is a borderline call. Cargo capacity runs 3,281 to 5,676 lb on the fifth wheels and 3,771 to 5,300 lb on the travel trailers - the bumper pulls give up very little payload, which is unusual and is the reason to read the table rather than assume the fifth wheels carry more.

A full 102-gallon fresh tank is about 847 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 17% of the 2730’s 5,041 lb cargo capacity, leaving 4,194 lb. Across 5 Sandstorm travel-trailer floorplans the water share runs 16% to 22%, and 3 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Sandstorm 2215 at 16% and Sandstorm 2900 at 19%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).