camper towing rental trucks??

So it's been a week since Labor Day. Sorry for now just replying but life's been busy. We were able to rent a truck from enterprise truck and commercial division. My insurance covered 25 bucks a day. We had to cover the rest. They do give an insurance rate. I asked for a 3/4 ton. I started out with a ram 2500 diesel quad cab. That would have worked out fine. After picking up the camper I noticed I didn't nt have trailer lights. Then realized I didn't have trailer breaks neither. I was impressed that the truck stopped the trailer as well as it did, but wasn't going to try them in the mountains especially with no break lights. I found the problem. The trucks wiring harness conector to the trucks trailer plug was disconnected. I tried to reconnect but it wasn't reconecting easily. That's when I stop. I don't want to be the one that breaks/buys it.
I went back to enterprise (trailer in tow). They swapped trucks with me. Unfortunately they only had a f350 dually long bed. A little more truck than I needed or wanted, but I new it could handle the camper
We rented it on Friday morning and returned it on Monday night. The salesman comped me a day for the inconvenience. After insurance i was in it for $150 or so. I'm good with that.
Another positive was that I was able to tow my camper to the locksmith. An initial quote for a mobile lock smith was $150-$175 to show up plus a hundred per hour thereafter. (I didn't try any other mobile units, I would have drilled the cores out for that). Instead the lock smith that I towed it to picked it, printed 2 new keys and made 6 copies for under 70 bucks.

I think we made the right decision with the rental. We had a good time. Plenty of truck to tow the camper. I didn't have to hide the fact that I was using the truck to tow. I'm just hoping that the trip doesn't cost me 40k this winter.... If the wife wants to trade the 6.0 for a 6.7.

Thanks again for all of the replies.

Sillybugs2 wrote:
When our new used truck died 20 miles down the road two years ago the dealer brought us another 3500 dodge on the lot for sale for us to go csamping for the week while they towed ours to their lot to be fixed. Saved our trip.

Did they bring you a loaner 3500 when yours got stolen?

Woody, glad it worked out! Too bad you got new truckitis out of the deal!
And yes fwiw, the original Super Dities are among the easiest trucks to steal in recent years. No chipped key and super easy to slim Jim the door open.
Last one I had for a company truck, I was constantly locking the keys in it when I had to get used to locking the doors after moving to Phoenix. Only got 1 key with it and just left a coat hanger and screwdriver in the bed to break in every time I locked in the keys!

Glad you found a truck!

There seems to be a rash of truck thefts in Denver metro. I know out here in Brighton, I've seen posts of 3 separate Ford 3/4 ton and 1 ton trucks being stolen on our buy/sell/trade Facebook page. One was a dually the guy had just bought a couple days before. We don't live in town and park the truck in the garage so we're not too worried, but these guys are taking them from in front of people's houses in broad daylight... pretty ballsy!

Jac you are correct. The cop that did our police report said ours was the 3report he'd written for f250/350s that morning. That was around 9:00 am. Turns out they're really easy to get into. They just punch the lock core into the door and that exposes the locking rod, then it's fair game. The ignition core must not be too difficult as well.
I'll be buying some supplemental devices as soon as I get the truck back.