1/2 ton truck camper
Anyone have a truck camper on a 1/2 ton truck?.Our Nissan pro 4x has a payload of 1843. The camper weighs 1850.Planning on putting airbags on it.
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wvabeer wrote:
All I can say is I probably am the biggest offender of being over weight 1200 lbs on a 1/2 ton. I would have never done this but needing a 1/2 ton for commuting persuaded me to get a truck camper for what I have. I looked at a few then since the one I wanted SAID 1770 lb I thought ok I can do that. I drove 600 miles to buy it, loaded it and brought it home, it felt fine going down the road. Then I weighed it, 2270lbs. It has worked for me, I don't know about a Nissan. All I can say is try it you may like it but beware of weight tags, they can lie.
I ran a Silverado 1500 for awhile, I thought it worked ok after lots of upgrades due to running well over 1000lbs past the GVWR on that truck. I now have a 1 ton dually that is 11 years older, so much nicer. You need a stout truck to carry a camper and it will be hard to setup a 1500 series truck and you won't have many camper choices.
Good luck, I have traveled the use the truck I own route.
