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Originally Posted by wiredgeorge
I believe you are correct; googled and came up with a Chevy forum where the issues were discussed. A chassis cab has a different rear axle width than the pickup so dropping a bed on seems to be a not good option. A Chassis Cab might better be served with install of a flatbed w/gooseneck hitch. I do believe Andersen makes an Ultimate hitch for a recessed goose ball but would definitely check with them.
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Installing a gooseneck or an Andersen hitch still doesn't reduce the width of the flatbed deck corners. They "project to the extreme corners at the same width as the "hip fenders" on a pickup bed. There is no "reduced width at the extreme rear of the chassis cab flat bed. When turning with a fifth wheel on the truck, those corners will "grow to meet the underside of the fifth wheel just like leaving the tail gate down on a pickup will "strike the front of the fifth wheel"......
There are some options, mainly a "custom flatbed deck with rounded rear corners" or a sliding fifth wheel hitch.
It's definitely not an impossible to solve problem, but being 2000 miles from home, with a trailer sitting in a campground and buying a new truck to "hitch and move on" is not the ideal situation to be in when it all needs to come together at one time on the first attempt.....