Rental

Campers on 1-ton trucks can be rented in Canada. Great vacation to rent a camper/truck in Calgary for a week or two in some exceedingly beautiful country. The camper experience is a bonus. Rates are much lower in September and weather is still very nice.

Its hard enough just to find TC's to look at here in Alabama. I don't know of any dealers in the whole state. There is a Lance dealer in Georgia west of Atlanta I think. I had to go to Indiana just to see the model I ultimately bought. That dealer no longer exists by the way.

Perhaps you should modify your expectations for "getting your feet wet" by using one as a rental and instead find a dealer to look at some models to examine the TC as more of a "thought experiment" (not as fun as the real deal for sure!). I got a dealership in Nashville (also no longer exists) to load one on a truck and let me test drive it to get the feel of the combo before I took the plunge on both truck and camper.

Good Luck.

Only TC & Pickup hire company is Frasweway RV. Go to www.fraserwayrv.com

hey..if you are near Guntersville...you pay for the hotel and you can come stay in ours for a few days! I love that area. We have a baby TC, but I got it was to see if we liked the lifestyle without tossing too much money into it.

Just say when!!!

Maybe in Alaska, but no well-known rental places in the lower 48, that's for sure.

sabconsulting only explored the tip of the iceberg with regards to the liabilities and pitfalls of renting just a TC, and when you're talking about a TC and a truck, a Class C motor home will cover the renter's needs 99.9% of the time, and is infinitely more marketable.

Just think, almost every 1/2 ton on the market needs to have airbags or some other helper spring setup to handle ANY TC at all. How many of your truck-driving friends, who do NOT camp, have airbags on their Tundra/F150/Silverado/RAM 1500 "just in case" they want to rent a TC someday?

Think about it for yourself... Would you want to go to the expense of installing airbags or helper springs for what is possibly a one-time event?

How many guys own 3/4 or 1 ton trucks as daily drivers, and don't use them for ANYTHING? Not for towing, not for work, not for hauling a TC... They just like riding around getting 12MPG and beating their spines to pieces... NOT.

At my last check, quite some time back, rental TCs were only available in Alaska. TCs are VERY popular there and the market supports folks who fly up and rent the truck/TC combo. Very pricey too because of the short season and wear and tear in that environment.

Here's one example:

abcmotorhome

Rick

I did a search last year to find a truck camper rental near Denver but failed to find one (I think there was a company in SFO). I was after a company renting a TC + truck.

So I don't expect you will be very lucky.

There would also be the issue of people reserving a camper and turning up with an unsuitable vehicle (wrong length load bed; insufficient over cab clearance; no tie-down points: C-rated tires; orders a Lance 1050, turns up to collect it in a 2001 F150 SVT Lightning, etc).

So it seems to me there is too small a market combined with too many pitfalls to make a viable rental business.

However, never say never, and you might get lucky.

Another option (depending upon how hands-on you are): Assuming you could rent one, it is probably going to cost at least $500 per week. Alternatively could you find an old camper for sale for the same / less money? You could try it out for the season and throw it away afterwards (or sell it). You'd then have a better idea of whether a TC was for you and what you really need in a TC so when you go to buy you can be confident you are making the right choice.

Steve.

You won't find any rentals because the mounting is truck specific and not cheap

Camper only

Are you seeking to rent a TC already mounted on a truck, or one that you can have mounted on your truck?