We did it!

The 5th wheel hitch was installed along with a brake controller and other goodies. We went straight home and hooked up the trailer. At first it looked as though the truck was going to be too low to keep the trailer level, but it turns out that once we were out of the driveway everything seemed to level out.

Up until today, we had been unable to move the trailer, so everyone was told not to use a lot of water or the toilet so we wouldn't have the problem of overflowing tanks and no way to dump. After a short trip around the neighborhood to fine tune the brake controller, we headed for the local RV dump station about 1 mile away to dump the roughly 1/2 full tanks.

Just before arriving at the dump station I noticed that the brakes on the trailer were out. The light on the brake controller was out too, so I assumed that the cord had come loose. Sure enough, when I checked it at the dump station, the cord was loose, so I plugged it in further and tried to lock it in place. We're going to add a strap to keep the plug from being able to come out again.