Global Pickup Trucks Bragging Rights

Bedlam wrote:

Colorado71 wrote:

Bedlam wrote:
UTV in the bed while towing a trailer?

Truck camper in the bed while towing toys?

What's the weight of a midsized truck camper? 1,500lbs? Tongue weight of a trailer with a couple of ATV's? 150-200lb's at most.

UTV has to fit with the tail gate closed if you're going to tow a TT. Will that even fit? And if it does, that's still only ~1,000lbs plus a max of say 6,000lb TT would total 1,600lb's payload.

Not seeing the need for 3,000lb payload unless you're hauling for work, as Marty said.

Typical truck campers may come in 1500 lbs with no options and nothing loaded, but once you get into the better quality ones, add some options and load your gear, your easily over 2000 lbs before you add people and the tongue weight of toys or boat you have in tow. With a travel trailer, let's start with 500 lb family in the cab, 1000 lbs of toys or junk in the bed and then add 1000 lbs of hitch weight.

Lets not forget, one will add at least 300 lbs into ANY rv for a single person, potentially upwards of 500 lbs for clothes, food, and other assorted stuff. So a 1500 base wt truck camper is upwards of 3000 lbs loaded! My TT we added some 2000-2500 lbs for my family of 6, 3000 during ski season when the ski's etc were added to the mess. Along with full water, lp tanks. Many times 1/4- 1/2 of the waste tank was still full from the weekend before.....
1500 lbs of payload was taken up by 1200 with my family of 6 on board when 4 kids were adult sized teens. I needed 2500-3000 lbs of payload for the truck with my family, hitch wt, canoe, 2 - 150 lb malmutes etc.

Marty