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djc486
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Jul 31, 2014

Finally, other truck campers on the road.

DW and I went on a great trip to Glacier National Park. Will never go this late in the summer again. Too many people. We started here in Texas and hit Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. We always count the other Truck Campers we see. On a trip we made to Tennessee a couple of years ago we counted maybe 20 TC's. This trip we stopped counting at 120 Awesome! Still can't understand why there aren't more in Texas.
  • I can drive across the entire state of NY and not see one other TC. Same with PA. In fact, on some North East/New England trips we won't see one other TC on the road. Plenty of TT and other RV's though.
  • Living Florida we don't see too many in the Southeast. When we do one of us shouts out - - It usually gets the dogs barking. An average trip to TN, or NC gets us about 7 both ways.
  • We saw the same thing this summer. We didn't count but there were noticeably more on the road. Plus we get lots of curious people wanting to know more about our camper and look inside. The men love the camper and the women not so much.

    I don't think masses of RVers are going to make the switch from their 40 foot fivers to a 10 foot TC. The smart ones will but the rest? So, thankfully, when we go off the beaten path there will still be plenty of space, seclusion, and solitude.
    Mike
  • It was the same thing with me, I went to New Jersey via I80, on the way back I took I94 to I90, I probably saw only about 15 truck campers from California to New Jersey and Washington DC and up to Montana, after that, going across Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and back to California, I saw at least 150. I guess they are much more popular on the West Coast. Saw a lot of 5th wheels, trailers and Motorhomes though.

    Bob