Forest River Sabre 38DBL

The maker never published an MSRP for this floorplan. Unknown is not cheap. Treat any asking price against comparable models, not against zero.

dry weight 13,073 lb + fresh water (49 gal, full) 409 lb + propane + battery 200 lb + gear for 2 600 lb. Brochure dry weight omits water, propane, batteries and your gear; this estimate doesn't.

Judged the way the app judges: estimated loaded weight against each vehicle's rating less a 10% margin, per model year, because the 38DBL's published weights held steady. Fifth wheels also need a pickup bed and are held to the fifth-wheel rating where published.

These verdicts assume 2 people aboard with typical gear. See the margin for your truck and your crew →

A missing row means the maker never published that figure: unknown, not zero.

• 1× camper king bed (master bedroom, over-sized bed slide)(Permanent)—
• 1× tri-fold sleeper sofa (rear bunk room)(Convertible)—
• 1× flip-down bunk (rear bunk room)(Stow-away)—
• 2× L-shaped lofts (rear bunk room, sleeping or storage)(Stow-away)—

Forest River (Better tier): Forest River's Sabre fifth wheels use vacuum-bond laminated fiberglass sidewalls, PVC membrane roofs, and a heated, enclosed forced-air underbelly to sit in the affordable-luxury tier above entry-level trailers, with residential touches like fireplaces, kitchen islands, and on select floorplans a retractable patio deck.

Findable: a few listed nationwide most weeks. Why: Forest River is a volume manufacturer; only one model year; still in production. Estimated from build volume and production span, not a count of live listings.

gvwr = UVW (13,073) + CCC (2,800); not stated directly. Published 'sleeps up to 9'. Rear private bedroom, L-shaped lofts, tri-fold sleeper sofa, flip-down bunk all named with no counts/sizes, so beds[] omitted. No MSRP published. Sleeping data added by a later pass: Dealer listing describes master bedroom camper king bed and a rear bunk room containing a tri-fold sleeper sofa, a flip-down bunk, and unique L-shaped lofts usable for extra sleeping or storage. The same listing quotes both 'sleeps up to nine' (marketing, all convertibles/lofts used) and 'Sleeps 6' (standard spec field) for total capacity, but this row only needed beds. Collected from a census gap: this line had no catalogue record at all. tier, bn and mat are the collecting pass's editorial read, not inherited from siblings. Slide-out count added by a later pass: page text: 'two entries and four slide outs'

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