Is a Gas 3/4 Truck and Pop-up Camper Safe in Colorado?

In my personal experience, an 8ft popup camper on an SRW truck handles almost like a passenger car. A dually offers more reserves if you want to upgrade to a larger hardwall camper with a slideout at a later time. While it is true that you can't really have too much truck, there are a lot of applications where smaller will do just fine. This was our 2008 Chevy, Work Truck, stock suspension:

We upgraded to Bilstein shocks after 8 years or so and it made a difference, but it handled fine with the stock shocks.