East to WestSilver Lake

Silver Lake is the lightest complete roster on this site from any East to West line, and it is organised around a single split. Three LE plans are single-axle trailers from 3,548 lb dry with 475 to 550 lb on the tongue; the other seven are tandem-axle and run to 7,518 lb dry with 565 to 780 lb on the tongue. Every one of the ten is a bumper pull. The practical read is that the whole line stays inside what a half-ton truck or a large SUV can carry on the ball, and the single-axle plans stay inside what a good many mid-size vehicles can -- but the tow rating that matters is the one on your own door sticker, against the loaded weight rather than the dry figure. Cargo capacity runs 1,062 to 3,462 lb.

Across the whole Silver Lake roster the published dry weights run from 3,548 lbs to 7,518 lbs, cargo capacities from 1,062 lbs to 3,462 lbs, and dry tongue weights from 475 lbs to 780 lbs. Exterior lengths run 21 to 37 feet. Those are East to West's figures for a standard build, captured from the factory roster block and confirmed against each floorplan's own factory page.

There is one thing to know before comparing Silver Lake against anything else: East to West publishes no GVWR for this line. Dry weight, cargo capacity and dry tongue weight are published for every floorplan; the loaded rating is not. The factory's own glossary defines cargo capacity as GVWR minus unloaded weight, so the rating can be worked out - and a figure worked out is not a figure the manufacturer published, so this site does not print one as though it were. The weight label on the trailer itself carries the real number.

8 of the 10 Silver Lake floorplans are profiled in full below, each on its own page with the complete factory weight, dimension and tank block. The profiled set is spread across the weight range rather than taken from one end of it, so the lightest and heaviest plans in the line are both represented. Every plan profiled here publishes a full field set and, where East to West publishes a GVWR, passes the dry-plus-cargo arithmetic check.

The remaining 2 Silver Lake floorplans are catalogued here from the factory's published figures. A plan is catalogued rather than profiled when the factory has not yet published its full field set, when its own published figures disagree with each other, or simply because the profiled set is capped. Nothing in this table is estimated.

Sort this line by the constraint you actually have. If the tow vehicle is fixed, start at the weight column: the lightest plan in the roster is the 1600RBLE at 3,548 lbs dry and the heaviest is the 3250QB at 7,518 lbs, and that spread is wide enough that the two ends are not the same buying decision. If the tow vehicle is not fixed, sort by cargo capacity instead - the 3250QB carries the most at 3,462 lbs, and payload is the number that runs out first on a long trip.

Do not sort by floorplan number. East to West's codes encode length loosely and layout not at all, and this site does not decode them into layout claims. Two plans with adjacent numbers in this roster can differ by hundreds of pounds of dry weight and by more than that in dry tongue weight, which is the figure that determines what the tow vehicle has to be.

Where East to West publishes a floorplan description it is quoted on the plan page and identified as factory marketing copy rather than a specification. Where it publishes none, the plan page says so instead of describing a layout that nobody has verified. That is the difference between a catalogue and a brochure.