Cracked the bed of my truck

Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli wrote:
Saw this sort of thing before but with the heaviest TCs. A year or two ago, somebody here posted pictures of their truck bed showing how the weight of the TC had bent down or sagged both sides of the truck bed, toward the outside from each frame rail, on both sides of the bed.

I've had this problem in spades. Seems to be an F350 (or Ford bed?) problem with heavy campers from the other replies I'm reading. My major tears are in the rear panel metal above the license plate.

Here's a link to my photos, both before and after.

I put a layer of 3/4" plywood under my TC and the problem didn't get much worse this summer. My camper puts all it's weight on it's two edges with little or no cross support (I've noticed a damaged cross member in my basement but it was trivial support in my mind anyway).

Rick