Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos

Rastaman, My advise, 2-cents is, if you do build the platform, which seems unavoidable given the shape of the camper along it's lower parts (the "bustle" area especially), I'd find ways ("creative ways" if need be) to secure the platform at all four corners (or in at least 2 places along each side) to the trailer surface ("bed,floor"), as well as secure the camper floor (the 2nd lowest area that usually sits on the truck bed floor) to the top of the platform. In my case, having my former C-11 sitting on & bolted to wood strips (the factory flat bed leveling strips plus a flat 2X4 on top of each of those) sitting on the frame of an old Chevy C-30 (former flat bed) truck, I ran only a total of 4, long wood - lag bolts (with large flat washers under the heads) thru the floor of the camper into the wood leveling strips (which had U-bolts holding them to the truck frame). The only other things holding the camper down to the truck (besides it's own weight) were 4-each, 3/8" chains, roughly 3' or 4' long each, hanging down from near the jack mounts (I believe, I can't remember if there were factory "tie-down mounts" along the camper sides, or if I made some?) and (the chains were>)bolted to the sides of the truck frame. I drove the rig like a (young) maniac at times and it never moved. Although the lag bolts I used would of never held the camper in place in a bad wreck, they did prevent any side to side or front to rear movement, with a fairly wild young version of myself at the wheel. Carpet on the floor of mine hid the passenger side bolts, I think the other side (at least 1 was anyway) were hidden inside the floor storage compartments.