Toy haulers

Any RV with a garage counts as a toy hauler: a rear wall that drops into a loading ramp, opening onto a bay for motorcycles, ATVs, side-by-sides or bikes. When the bay is empty, fold-down beds, sofas or a patio deck on the ramp turn it into living space. The garage can be built into a travel trailer, a fifth wheel or even a motorhome, so the hitch and licence questions follow the base type.

Weight is the catch. Whatever you load in the garage counts against the RV's cargo capacity, so compare the GVWR with the dry weight before assuming a 2,000 lb side-by-side will fit legally. Heavy units also cross licence thresholds: in California, a fifth wheel over 15,000 lb GVWR or a bumper-pull trailer over 10,000 lb GVWR requires a non-commercial Class A licence, and many fifth-wheel toy haulers here are rated 16,000 to 23,000 lb.

The catalog spans inTech's 13.75-foot aluminum Flyer Explore at about 1,580 lb dry to Heartland's 48-foot Cyclone 4115 fifth wheel, plus Grand Design Momentum, Keystone Raptor and Fuzion, Jayco Seismic and Brinkley Model G units. Newmar's Canyon Star and Thor's Outlaw put the garage in a motorhome.