Towing a travel trailer with a truck camper?
My wife and I are looking for ways to move up from our current popup camper to something more comfortable and all weather. Thing is, we are a family of 5 although the oldest is soon to leave for coll...
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Yeah, I agree with your, towing a humungous 5th wheel is not my idea of camping.
The trailer behind the truck camper idea is pretty cool, because you could leave the trailer behind, and use it as a base, and still have a "smallish" truck camper on the truck bed.
But, the problem, like others have said, is payload and tongue weight.
An SRW truck would not likely handle the load requirements, depending on the truck camper and the trailer combination. Most likely you'd be in dually territory.
I did see a Lance camper with a Lance trailer in tow, at a show one time. The truck was a dually.
The trailer behind the truck camper idea is pretty cool, because you could leave the trailer behind, and use it as a base, and still have a "smallish" truck camper on the truck bed.
But, the problem, like others have said, is payload and tongue weight.
An SRW truck would not likely handle the load requirements, depending on the truck camper and the trailer combination. Most likely you'd be in dually territory.
I did see a Lance camper with a Lance trailer in tow, at a show one time. The truck was a dually.
