Advice on truck and camper purchase

ajriding wrote:

emcvay wrote:

smarty wrote:
Remember that dually's suck when it comes to off roading

Depends on who's driving ;) and whom you ask ;)

Mine isn't a true 'offroaders' rig mind you and I don't have plans to try a jeep trail but it did fine on our rough road to the cabin though not as easily as our thinner SRW.

My only real issue at this point is the stable loads I installed need to be cut down about ½" so the overloads don't enguage without the camper on

Dirt roads and gravel roads are not off-road, they are on a dirt road, or on a gravel road.
When people want to go off road with a TC they probably mean actually off of the road be it gravel, dirt, asphalt or pavers. Rocks that are out in the wilderness which you do not see on a prepared road are a biggie since they will get stuck in the duallys. The width is another as many off road tracks are actually trails that were made by previous drivers leaving tracks for you to follow. They are almost always SRW tracks, so having two extra wheels makes this more difficult too, and near impossible if the track is too narrow and walled in by obstacles… So off-road means not on a road. thanks

There is 'off road' and there is 'off-road'....if you mean people who want to drive where no one has driven before, ok. Nuff said. However, most people think of 'off road' in different terms (and you cannot define that just because you want to).

My drive 'off-road' was on a dirt trail (at best) that other 4x4's had driven on but no one was going to take a caddy down that 'road'. Goat trail might be better description but it was wide enough for a truck camper...my driveway isn't much better. Yes, it's a 'driveway' but just barely. Sure a car can sometimes make it up there (in the summer, in dry weather, if one is careful) but as my sister once found it, that car might also get stranded until someone with a 4x4 comes along to help her get back out (and she never even made it half way). Campers, hard side ones, do often go places they shouldn't and I've seen dually's go placed you'd never imagine...but then I also used to drive a Duece and a half :d :P No the dually isn't going to hit the trails at Moab with the jeeps or crawl over rocks but it will go 'off road' which generally means to go off of a maintained public road (county dirt paved or whatever)....