looking for suggestions

A couple of thoughts come to mind. Quality has traditionally translated into weight. With budget in mind, two manufactures popular with full timers have been Carriage and NuWa. Carriage stopped manufacturing in Oct 2011. I believe their Cameo line would be within your specs. NuWa stopped manufacturing last year due to the economy, but own and operate Kansas RV Center in Chanute, KS. They stock, among other brands, the last of the 2013 NuWa models, while refurbishing used products (NuWa included) taken in on trade and resold. NuWa's HitchHiker LS series would likely meet your needs. Their Discover America series with a few more appointments might work, provided you stay short and go back a few years.

NuWa still maintains a website with archives of models over the past 10 yrs or so. PPL is a good place to get a feel for pricing on the used market. Food for thought... good luck.

Thanks for the suggestions all, we will take a look

RGCG18 wrote:
I have the same truck and concerns........

We have been looking at Cedar Creek models .... the 34RLSA and 36CKTS.
One has a dry weight of # 11569, and the other is dry @ # 11032.

Both of these I feel should be under 14500 when loaded

Your thoughts ????? I like the Cedar Creeks.....we just took a factory tour

I don't think we have seen any cedar creeks yet. There is a lot of Montana and open range and toy haulers around here. Toy haulers are out since we have no need and none of the other layouts seemed to fit the bill. Wife loved the front bath Montana though, but its on the heavy side and pricey.

I have the same truck and concerns........

We have been looking at Cedar Creek models .... the 34RLSA and 36CKTS.
One has a dry weight of # 11569, and the other is dry @ # 11032.

Both of these I feel should be under 14500 when loaded

Your thoughts ????? I like the Cedar Creeks.....we just took a factory tour

Check out Units by Heartland......good customer service + construction.
Elkridge is nice, others more high end such as Landmark.
Look at Evergreens......composite material impervious to water (no delam)
That's why we bought an Evergreen TT :-)

sorry.....double post

We bought the one in my signature in April and so far, we LOVE it! The price was right for us and it has all the features you are looking for (including Polar Package) except the bedside table. There is another model with a slightly different floor plan that does have the bedside table. We also looked at Silverback (around the same price) with the same floor plan minus the island in the kitchen but I liked the shower and sink area in the bath of this one better. However the Silverback did have a king vs queen bed and in ours, that is not an option as the bed takes up the width of the slide. Ours does have a residential Queen vs short queen though. I personally wouldn't buy another camper with a short queen because I don't like my feet hanging off the bed. Ours also has a residential refrigerator which I love. Even though we are only vacationers, the residential refrigerator comes in handy. We usually take all of our food with us when we go places and our previous TT had the standard small gas/electric refrigerator which was hard to fit everything we like to take. We looked at Columbus also which are very attractive but the money for the same options lead us to choose ours. I'm a big review nut so it was hard for me to pick our unit because the Signature Series that we bought just came out in 2013 and I could not find any reviews on it. We took the chance. It seems to be well made and we have had no warranty issues after several weekend trips and one vacation to Colorado. Good luck!