Looking for Advice on TC

People get caught up in the shopping/tire kicking phase of camper selection, you go looking at a few campers that will suite your need and are within your load carrying capacity and then you peak inside the larger ones just to see how the other half lives, in my case you bring the wife and after she steps in a “heavy” camper it’s game on. You start running the numbers and say to yourself we can keep the tanks half full and only bring the necessities or air bags will work for this. Then 3 years later you’re looking at smaller campers again, I know, I just sold my Lance 835 and every single person that came and looked at it was downsizing from a larger TC. I have never exceeded or even come very close to my payload max on any of my campers. I had a rear tire blowout while loaded on the highway once and I would hate to think about that happening had I been at or over max load, that’s just me and others will see things differently. I had a StarCraft road star on my F-250 and it was an outstanding setup, put a Lance 835 on an F350 SRW and it was equally good, both safe and well within the capacity of the truck. It’s only my opinion but maxing out a truck is not something I choose to do on a regular basis. There’s a difference in putting a yard or two of topsoil in your bed and driving home at 40mph with your flashers on and putting the same weight in the form of a camper and hitting the highways on vacation. Max load is just that MAX LOAD. Look at your camper cert in the glove box, if you got the camper package, it takes into account the COG and other factors and it will tell you not to carry a camper at GVWR. OK, getting off my soap box now. This is only my opinion and the only one it applies to is me so don’t anybody get offended. As always your results may vary and happy camping.