Joe's truck doesn't really seem to care whether it's pulling the 5th wheel or not...the torque in that thing is insane. All it does is lower the mpg from 20 to 11 (which is still pretty damn good considering my VX gets 14 pulling nothing but my butt).
We could meet at the I-70/Morrison exit like we did for the trail last year. But as you said, we can firm things up closer to the 12th, but yeah 9-10 am was what I was thinking.