Question, Securing TC to the truck

For old truck with steel beds, they used eye bracket bolted to front of the bed and tie with turnbuckles.
For newer truck and heavier camper - strong tie-downs are bolted to the frame under the bed. Popular manufacturer is Torklift.
There are no codes how to secure the camper so even careful owners can be easy confused, while hillbillies will leave scene like this.

That unit still has some resale value IMO.

That actually looks like the camper I was talking about. There was no visible hold downs at the front and virtually no space between the camper and bed rails.

Ken

It's probably a good thing you asked them to leave before they asked to borrow money. No tie downs usually means they have no clue what a camper will do when encountering and wind or sideways force while cornering. You don't need any grief.

The hold downs are generally all steel with some being spring loaded unless they are bolted to the truck bed floor. Sure, some people have used nylon straps for temporary situations, but as far as I know, there are no commercial nylon straps marketed to hold down TCs.

Kayteg1 wrote:
For old truck with steel beds, they used eye bracket bolted to front of the bed and tie with turnbuckles.
For newer truck and heavier camper - strong tie-downs are bolted to the frame under the bed. Popular manufacturer is Torklift.
There are no codes how to secure the camper so even careful owners can be easy confused, while hillbillies will leave scene like this.

I could take offense to your comment about hillbillies. I is one...:B

Was my comment offensive to hillbillies?
IMHO we all, RV and specially TC owners are hillbillies to some degree.
And we all did have ops in the carrier.
Only some of us are faster to admit it than others.

Thanks for the comments, I thought that there should have been more than gravity holding it in. Actually a neighbour came up to me and thought he should have called the police, unsafe, unsecured load.
I haven't seen or heard anything more about them, no newsworthy accidents, good thing for other users of the roads.

Ken

I have seen small TCs bolt to the bed from inside and you access the bolts or turnbuckles through a trap door hatch, so these would be unseen, but for a full size TC it would almost certainly be the standard outside tiedown points.
My first TC was a popup, lightweight and low. The PO said he did not secure it down as he just assume it take a tumble off the truck if anything serious happened. He felt it was a liability. He was the liability, but apparently he made some trips without fail.
I drove it 30,000 miles with very large straps holding it to my nerf bars on the front. No issues.

Tiedown nylon straps will hold it in, but how secure is another story. Under normal stresses the straps are fine, but in a situation they might let go.

Crossing the straps in an X pattern will not hold anything, that would tend to pull the camper left or right and help it to flip out.