Tailgate for a truck camper

deltabravo wrote:

Optimistic Paranoid wrote:
There are some exceptions to this. The 10 foot Alaskan Truck Campers are designed to be used in 8 foot beds with the tailgate down and supporting the last couple of feet.

There's an exception to this exception. A lot of newer trucks have a tailgate that is not meant to be a weight carrying support.

I've seen bent tailgates on shortbed trucks where people haul motorcycles that the rear wheel rests on the bed.

I’ll have to call shenanigans on this.
Can’t speak for Toyoders or Nippons, but I’ve had virtually every model of Big 3 trucks from the last 40 years, save for the latest F150 and Superduty chassis trucks and your statement is false. Not to say I haven’t bent or seen bent, many tailgates, but never from anything that wouldn’t just be considered severe abuse.
And to my point, newer trucks tailgates are significantly thicker, heavier and better built than the 70s-80s models of trucks.