RAM 3500 Frame Failure/Eagle Cap Camper

rjstractor wrote:

JBarca wrote:
Wow, that does not look good.

Not sure if there is a rating for overhung loads aft of the truck's frame. An evenly loaded bed weight up to the max-rated payload of the truck may act on the truck frame differently than some semi-large percentage of the payload beyond the end of the truck frame.

I wonder how Ford or GM handles this. That truck camper does not look like a new design, I have seen others with that rear overhang on it.

All the OEMs have very detailed information on truck camper ratings, including where the center of gravity needs to be in order to achieve the highest rating. Here's a Ram guide that details every single Ram model from that year (2016). It even drills down to whether the truck has bench or bucket seats. I imagine it was a similar (2020) guide that Ram referred to and determined that the owner was overloaded, denying him warranty coverage.

Never knew that before. I'm not a truck camper guy, yet anyway, but always on the lookout for why things fail and to try and understand them.

Thanks for posting, very helpful.

John