Been struck by lightning?

Not a truck camper but relevant; I was camping a few years back and got first hand experience with lightning. It was not raining but was cloudy, I heard one rumble in the distance and started preparing my campsite for rain when lightning struck a nearby pine tree (10ft away) and jumped to my awning that I was standing near (just outside the arm). I never saw the flash but heard the explosion and was knocked off my feet several feet away. After wiggling around in the dirt for a few seconds and mumbling "I'm hit" with my feet feeling like they were on fire several campers came to my aid and EMT's responded. After checking me out and pronouncing me alive I refused transport. I did have a very uneasy feeling for several hours afterward. The TT took some damage (close to $2k). Several other persons felt the charge in their legs and some other campers nearby had minor damage. It was an event I will not forget and I will never take lightning lightly again.

Could anything reasonable be done to a truck camper to be protect it from a lightning strike?

When I was a child, we were driving through Orego around Burns. There was heavy rain and lightning and it was night. Suddenly, there was a light so bright that we were blinded and thunder so loud that we were deafened. Everything instantly was dark and silent and we realized that we were rolling along in the darkness with no lights and no running motor. My mom stopped the truck and we surmised that we had been struck by lightning. We stayed in the vehicle for hours in the dark until the storm passed. It was very scary.

When the storm passed, we got out and examined the truck. The hood and roof had burned and peeling paint. We had an aluminum canopy that had several holes you could put your fist through and hundreds of tiny holes. It had been melted. My mom replaced several of the fuses and we were able to get the truck to start and we had lights. We drove slowly to Bend and all we had to do was replace several fuses and the truck was mechanically back to normal. The truck got reprinted and the canopy was replaced.

I don't know if the lightning hit the truck or the most cloud created when you drive on rainy roads, but I remember the experience of going from driving with the radio, lights, and engine noise to the flash and boom, and then silence vividly.

A friend of mine got hit while driving his wife's car.

The lightening hit the SAT antenna on the roof, when through the car, then exited out the front grill. The bolt then hit the road in front of the car and made a hole in the asphalt. A bowling ball could fit in the hole.

Luckily, he's OK.

I've never had a direct hit but, a tree about 10 feet from our Southwind got hit.

I was lucky, all I lost was my converter. The TV's, microwave, etc. survived.