The Rockwood Advantage...

Forest River Rockwood Trailers in NJ, by Driftwood RV Center,
Your New Jersey Rockwood trailer dealer


Rockwood Trailers and Rockwood 5th wheels by Forest River are the industry leaders in construction and quality. That's why Driftwood RV Center, Your NJ RV Dealer, is the region's largest Rockwood  RV Dealer. If you are considering purchasing a new RV, don't buy any RV until you visit one of Driftwood RV Center's Two NJ RV Dealerships to see the Rockwood trailers or Rockwood 5th Wheels.--and Driftwood RV Center Advantages for yourself. We carry Rockwood Mini Lite Trailers, Rockwood Ultra Lite Trailers, Rockwood Signature Ultra Lite Trailers, as well as Rockwood Wind Jammer trailers.

Specifications: Click on the Product Line below to see specifications

Mini Lite       Ultra Lite          Signature Ultra Lite             Wind Jammer





 Rockwood Trailers
 The Competition



 
Vacuum Bonded Walls		 Vacuum Bonded Walls
Rockwood RV  walls are taken into a "clean room" that the temperature and humidity is controlled, where they aren't cutting 2x4's with lots of dust in the air. A giant press comes down on the walls with several hundred pounds of pressure for several hours to give a strong bond.

Rockwood Trailers have a vacuum bonded sidewall. This method is statistically 10 times less likely to give you problems compared to the pinch rolled sidewalls.

Pinch Rolled Walls
This how most  manufactures still put their walls together since it's too expensive to vacuum bond. This can lead to delaminating walls where it starts to separate and moisture gets inside. If this happens, most times the RV has to be taken back to the factory where they have to fully separate the wall and then reapply it. It's about an $8,000-$10,000 process. Make sure you don't buy one that is just pinch rolled.
 Construction Rockwood Trailers  add wood inserts in the Aluminum tubes in the base perimeters of the floors and walls for an additional backer that gives you a tighter more secure fit. All aluminum framing is double welded in Rockwood trailers.
 It's common in the industry to spot weld one side or the other.
 
Floors		 The Framed floor registers on Rockwood trailers gives you added strength and support. Rockwood trailers heat ducts are sealed. Most of the industry won't add extra framing around the heat ducts creating weak spots where the heat registers are.

Roof		 Rockwood Travel Trailers have a Vacuum Bonded radius roof which sheds water. This thick roof provides lots of insulation and strength to walk on the roof. Many travel trailers have flat roofs that keeps standing water up there. They also don't vacuum bond the roof which makes it far more likely to delaminate.

Heated Holding Tanks		 Rockwood trailers. heated pads operate off 12 volt and can heat the tanks while traveling down the road, dry camping, or hooked up to 110 volt. The tank heaters are guaranteed to 11 degrees below zero. Rockwood trailers also puts heat strips on the dump valves for added protection. Rockwood also encloses the underbelly for better tow ability and to protect the under carriage from weathering. If the night is a little too cold and you accidently crack your tanks, it a huge mess. If you don't have heat tape on the valves or they aren't inside the under belly they are more likely to freeze open, shut or break. This limits you to a shorter season with your camper.

Awning		 Rockwood trailers' A&E Awning has a 24" adjustable rain dump on both arms. Just press a button to open or close. The fabric has UV & mold protection. Manual awnings tend to take longer to put up and take down, don't have a rain dump feature and don't have flex like a power awnings for those gusts of winds that come up suddenly.
 
Sofa		  
Rockwood trailers Hide-A-Bed air sofa offers an innerspring seating surface, storage underneath, and a queen 60"x80" 5" thick air mattress that power inflates and deflates.		 No one wants to sleep on that sofa sleeper because it has that metal bar that goes right across your back and you would of probably been better off on the floor.
 
Windows		  Day Night Shades offer Rockwood trailer owners adjustable light and privacy. Rattling mini-blinds every time the coach shifts. Plastic clips that brake at the bottom. The blinds tend to get bent fairly easily as well. You almost never see a used camper that has mini-blinds in good condition.

Table		 Rockwood's Solid Wood table option comes with a table top extension to offer more seating space plus extra storage under the seats for cards, games, books and more. Non-adjustable table. No storage under the chairs. Hard to fit four adults comfortably around the table.

Bed		 These beds in the Rockwood trailers. bedroom have a standard 60"x80" Queen Heated Innerspring mattress that is thermostatically controlled. This offers warm on those cool nights without turning the heat on. There is an upgraded Serta mattress as well. There are also swivel reading lights over the bed. There's also plenty of storage under the bed. Lights in the middle of the bedroom and even if there are two lights, they are usually not swivel lights.

The bed is a RV "short queen" (60x74).
Suspension Rockwood's torsion axles are maintenance free and give independent suspension for a smoother ride. They have bearing buddies for easy maintenance. Spring suspension is standard out there. If you don't have the bearing buddies, it's a lot more work to maintain the axles.

Short bed truck friendly		 Rockwood Fifth Wheels have an optional Sidewinder Hitch that makes it so you don't have to get a slider hitch with a short box truck saving you money, creating a lighter hitch weight, and easier towing. Some short bed trucks (5 1/2' beds), you can't use a slider hitch.

Water test		 Forest River's Rockwood trailers inspection building has rain booths that test the coach for leaks by drenching the coach with the equivalent of 24 inch/ per hr of rain with 184 spray heads. Every coach is tested for 15 minutes. Water is sprayed with the slides in and out position, underneath, sides and top. Water leaks are the single biggest cause of damage to RVs.
How well built and tested are the others?

Fantastic Fan		 This 10 blade Create a breeze fantastic fan pushes over 900 cubic feet of air per minute. The benefit is it can replace all the air in your RV in under 2 minutes and it will save you from having to use your Air Conditioner as much.  This fan it what you see in most coaches and can push about 25-30 cubic feet of air per minute. if it gets a little stuffy, you need to be plugged in at an RV site or crank on the generator to turn on the air conditioner.

Water Heater		 They also use a turbo water heater that gives you 16.2 gallons of hot water per hour. While it takes up less space, it gives you more hot water than a 10 or 12 gallon hot water heater. Most hot water heaters give you 7.4 gallon of hot water per hour.

Water Filtration 		 Rockwood has a 10,000 gallon residential water filtration system that filters all your water - both sinks, shower, outside shower, all your water. This is great because that means you can fill up at the RV site or maybe at a gas station when you get close to your destination. That will save over 300 lbs of unneeded weight and you'll know your drinking filtered water.  Most campers don't have a water filter and if they do it's just a sink filter.

Black Tank Flush		  Rockwood has a built in black tank flush so that all you have to do to rinse your sewer system is plug the fresh water hose on a port on the side and there are sprayers on the inside of the tank. If you don't have a black tank flush you need to drag your hose into your bathroom, open the toilet and spray the tank out after each camping trip. You can buy an adapter spray wand to stick on the end of the hose to stick in the toilet but that's not much more pleasant either.

Roof		 This is an Alpha-Ply Radius Roof with a 12 year warranty. This material stretches like rubber but is lighter, oxidizes less under UV rays, chalks less leaving fewer streaks down the side. Rockwood have longer rain spouts than most. Since the roof isn't flat it sheds water. Rubber roofs leave more streak marks down the side, require more maintenance and harder to clean.

Locking Latches		 Our Rockwood Roo hinged tip out bed walls have heavy duty latching & locking so you can keep your possessions inside while you're not camping or your camper is in storage. Usually you are going to see a metal flip that doesn't automatically latch and you need a pad lock. It's defiantly not as clean of a system.

Expandable Bed Support		  Rockwood Roo Beds are supported by an aircraft quality cable so that you don't have to mount clumsy support poles. It is rated to hold 1,200 lbs. The cable is attached to the bed frame but to the structure of the unit to avoid bowing and where the strength is. The steel reinforcement bar assures that your bed won't bow overtime causing a gap when you close the door for rain to enter. You are going to need to setup support poles each time which is more difficult and the bed will start to bow over time because they didn't put that steel reinforcement in there.

ETC Windows		 Rockwood ETC windows are European style windows that are standard with adjustable sun shades. The tinted windows can remain open in the rain. normal windows. Maybe curtain to pull across and maybe mini-blinds.

Double Ducted Air		 Double Ducting through out the camper for even temperatures through out. A/C ducting isn't available on the smallest floor plans. Air ducting on one side but not both. This creates hot and cold spots in the camper.

Rain Spouts		 Extended Rain spouts Short rain spouts that drip down the side of the camper creating