Redsky wrote:
Once you get to a large camper with slides that requires a dually truck you might as well get a class C motorhome.
Why? I read this fairly often but can't ever figure out what the real reason for the comment is. If you write out a list of all the benefits of a truck and TC as opposed to a C or a B, few lists would put the large TC in the same grouping as a C. And that is really only when you are comparing the largest T/TC combo like mine against the smallest of them, like a regular cab with a popup TC that is only slightly longer or equal to the bed. Only if you take the two extreme ends of the TC spectrum is there much substantial difference. That vast majority of them fall somewhere in the middle and there isn't much difference with a full size TC on a 3/4 ton truck versus a big camper on a giant truck.
You can't get 4WD with a C (other than Tigers for the most part) you can't replace just the camper, or just the truck....you have to register the camper separately....you can't tow much...they are always overloaded....they have terrible ground clearance....you have to move the camper to put a boat in.....they aren't as safe in the cab....if you need service, you have to go to a MH shop and have nothing to camp in while you wait.....you can't even take a sheet of plywood with a Class C! Basically the same list, with the exception of taking it onto tougher 4x4 trails.
I guess understand where people can rationalize it into nearly being a C if they really want to, but I wouldn't trade my rig for a class C in a million years with our needs.....they just have completely different major benefits. The only thing they share, is a similar size and number of wheels. It would be analogous to me saying "why would anyone have a little small truck with a popup TC? If you do that, you might as well just get a VW Westphalia." Or maybe like saying if you are going to cut down to a pop-up TC you might as well just save the money and get a shell, a sleeping pad, a coleman stove and a porta-potty.
