Maybe he's taking the camper on its last trip, like to the dump?
I had to use those kind of straps once myself with my first truck camper. It was one of the first TC's Jayco made, and it was a lemon. By the time it was 3 years old, it was so rotted I couldn't get it off the truck.
Drove it to the Jayco factory in northern Indiana and they bought it back from me, and sold me a new one at dealers cost. The camper was shedding pieces and parts the whole trip up there. Every time we stopped something else was missing. Great customer service, but the problems they had with TC's made them get out of that line of RV's.
Not sure why that one isn't pushed all the way forward, it looks like a long bed camper on a long bed truck. Maybe he has a fuel tank or toolbox in the bed.
Oh well, sometimes you just have to do whatever it takes to get the job done.
:):)