Fender well storage box?

My previous camper had doors behind and in front of the wheel on the driverside that had access through fairly large inside doors. I used the large square plastic boxes like kitty litter comes in, probably around 5 Gal. They had watertight lid (if you didn't submerge them). I would put one forward and one back plus other items that didn't need to be kept dry. The new camper has access to both sides in the front from inside the camper but only the drivers side is big enough for these plastic containers to fit through so I put two in the front plus extra stuff and smaller things on the passenger side front that don't have to be kept dry. The back is accessible from outside doors in the back of the camper but they are narrow and I haven't found the best way to use that space yet. I did make some free standing racks so I could haul long poles or our awning on the passenger side, over the top of the wheelwell.

Theres only about a gazzlion designs of boxes, including a lot of lighter 'plastic' ones. The drawer is nice-some have a bunch of drawers- bing images

The Swing out caught my eye shown by MORSNOW. A bit smaller than some but can easily be removed, as I also couldnt use on the left side rear becuase of camper design, actually the bracket might be a problem.

Mostly Ive looked at them for use when camper off, ensuring no interferance when loading camper. A single right side box mounted forward of wheel well-would be my choice, could be larger, access from outside or pulling camper back if I need somenthing in there. Also need to add floor tie down point box will cover for non camper duties.

How would you get stuff in or out? I'm kinda looking for something like that but the lids are on top and I can't see how I'd have access to get anything in or out.

I'm considering making some sort of boxes with a door on the back. I guess it's different in every case depending on how the camper sits on the truck.

The first thing you will need to know is the width when mounted. I have 2 Undercover Swing Cases that I have to remove before mounting the camper because they are too wide to allow the camper to fit between them.

I know on my camper that box would not work. My camper widens out right after the wheel wells. That is where my bathroom is located. I only have 3/4" clearance on each side of the camper in my tailgate opening and the same size runs forward into the bed.

silversand wrote:


There must be a blow-molded HDPE storage box alternative out there on the market that would be about 1/3rd the weight of this metal box

There is such a box for batteries.
I purchased this one mail order from an outfit in Oregon almost ten years ago - sorry, don't remember the vendor's company name.
An industrial battery supply house in Tacoma told me about the box.
HDPE

A plastic model of the Aluminium storage box is a good idea..

In our model of camper we can access this area on both sides from
inside the camper via two doors on hinges...


We have 4 duffle type insulated bags that we wrap in heavy plastic bags in those two areas of the truck. We use insulated bags for shock absorption as sharper objects tend to mark up the camper tub from the motion.

If we had a plastic version of the storage box I would have a hole cut in the side as well as the rear access door, with our present system it is hard to reach that area of the truck box from the back of the truck , the box would solve that problem, the plastic bags get a bit dirty from dust after a while..

The area opens up a relatively large storge capacity for us...

We stuff it full of things that are not in every day use.. Maybe too much "stuff" as we gross about 11,500 going down the road...

That storage box looks interesting; my thoughts:

-the box weighs just about 60 LBS (about the weight of an extra battery);
-several truck campers make tubs that are step-constructed geometry to fit tightly over the truck bed wheel wells and take up all the space aft of them (like ours), so study your truck camper tub design carefully before buying one;

There must be a blow-molded HDPE storage box alternative out there on the market that would be about 1/3rd the weight of this metal box (this would be a good product for someone like TorkLift to design/offer, possibly: blow-molded fore/aft truck camper side saddle storage boxes, for the most popular truck campers' tub geometries)? For our camper tub design, I wish an HDPE bed-mountable box that would fit fore of our 2 wheel- wells were available (to mount, securely, 2 more batteries).

Thanks for posting the link. This product offers much food for thought as additional storage!