Tag axle for truck camper rigs
Tag axle article Code 13 Roll the Weight Police edit - quoted from the article: "In 2017, after several people showed interest in purchasing our unit, I decided to design a tag axle to sell....
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Kayteg1 wrote:n0arp wrote:
Also, it looks like it would diminish the ability to leave the pavement - a large benefit to having a truck camper in the first place.
Don't you worry.
When crossing the ditch, the axle frame will bend to shape under 12,000 lb load.
I'm just visualizing dropping the rear truck axle off a 10" shelf, which is out of downtravel range on a lot of trucks, and getting hung up on this contraption with the rear truck tires up in air. You'd have all the weight on this and have to use 4x4 or momentum (which means going over a drop like that too fast) to pull it off with the front tires. Fun, and likely to damage something. Maybe I'm unusual in the places I pick to camp, but I think the ability to get further than other campers is a major selling point for TCs.
