PullRite has built fifth wheel and gooseneck hitches in America since 1974. That is more than 50 years of designing, engineering, and manufacturing on American soil. It is not a marketing line we picked up recently. It is a decision we have stood behind through good years and hard ones.
What "Made in the USA" Actually Means Here
Plenty of companies stamp a flag on a box. We mean something more specific. Our hitches are conceived and created in the United States. The engineering, the design, and the manufacturing all happen here. Very few hitch makers can say that about their full product line, and we are one of them.
That covers the products that haul your trailer down the interstate: the SuperGlide automatic sliding hitch, the Super 5th fixed hitch, the lightweight SuperLite, and our SuperRail mounting systems. The metal that ends up bolted to your truck bed was cut, formed, and assembled domestically.
The Decision We Made in 2008
During the 2008 financial crisis, banks were shutting down RV businesses all around us. We faced a hard choice. The easy path was the one a lot of manufacturers took: lay off most of the workforce and ship production overseas. For us, that would have meant letting roughly 80 percent of our employees go and moving manufacturing to China.
We did not do that. Instead, we sat down with every employee in honest, one-on-one conversations and worked through it together. We came out the other side with our people and our production still here. The commitment we made then, to our employees and to our customers, is the same commitment that holds today.
Why American Manufacturing Matters for a Hitch
A fifth wheel hitch is a safety part. It carries the pin weight of a loaded trailer and takes the shock loads of braking, turning, and rough pavement. Where and how it gets built is not a detail.
Engineering and production under one roof
When the people who design the hitch work in the same building as the people who build it, problems get caught early and fixes happen fast. There is no ocean and no time-zone gap between the drawing and the welder. That tight loop shows up in the finished product.
Control over materials and tolerances
Keeping manufacturing domestic lets us hold tight control over the steel we use and the tolerances we hit. A coupler that grabs your trailer's kingpin has to fit right every time. Consistent parts make for a consistent, predictable hitch.
Standards you can check
Our hitches are engineered and tested against SAE J2638, the industry strength standard for fifth wheel hitches published by SAE International (the Society of Automotive Engineers). That standard sets how a hitch must perform under load before it earns its gross trailer weight (GTW) rating. Building here makes it straightforward to validate that work and stand behind the numbers on the spec sheet.
Built to Fit the Way You Tow
American manufacturing also lets us build for the wide range of trucks on the road. Whether your truck came with a factory original-equipment (OE) puck system, a gooseneck ball, or Industry Standard Rails (ISR), we make a mounting solution and a hitch to match. ISR-mount hitches fit any truck that can accept industry standard rails, so once the rails are installed you have your pick of our ISR-compatible hitches.
The Short Version
We tell this story for one reason: so you know what you are buying. American design, American steel, American workers, since 1974. The people who built your hitch live and work in the same country you tow in. That is the standard we set for ourselves, and we have no plans to lower it.