Q 3 - Is this 260 lbs of over weight acceptable?
Yes it is in the truck camper world..If one wants to play by the numbers from the manufactures you would be hard pressed to make an optioned out Lance 850 non-slide be under GVWR on a 3500 SRW truck with atleast two passengers/gear and full of fuel.It would eat up that 3900 pound payload in a blink of the eye.
My 4600 payload of my F-350 DRW barely takes a Lance 9.6 non-slide without AC but heavily loaded..I am within a few hundred pounds of max GVWR and that will be gone once I hook up to my ATV trailer.
My late 21 ft Class C ran about 300 pounds over Max GVWR full of everything...
