MarkoPolo - not trying to pick on you, but your last post appears to answer the question "why I chose a F-150 over another truck to tow my Trailmanor". Good info, but not the OP's question. Your F-150 will limit your choices if you later decide you want a fifth wheel, which I believe was the question.
I also don't agree that it is "difficult" to use a short bed truck with a sliding fifth wheel hitch. Again, it may limit your choices of trailers, but there are a lot of fifth wheels in lengths similar to TMs that work well with sliding hitches.
If someone is buying a truck now for a future fifth wheel purchase, then I again say they should look at the trailers they might buy and get the truck needed for that size or load capacity. Buying a 150 now because it works better now may be false economy if you really needed a 250 or more to safely haul the fifth wheel you expect to buy later.
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