Travel Light TC
Has anyone here had or have any thoughts on Travel Light truck campers, I see they are makers of some light weight hard side campers compatible with short box trucks. Looking for a weekender unit but not a pop up.
exhaustipated wrote:
I must be the only happy and satisfied owner of a Travel Lite 960RX truck camper on this Forum. Over the last six years I've had the camper since buying it new from a dealer in January of 2012, I have never had anything go wrong with it and everything works and it hasn't fallen apart. I did have to replace the roof a few years back but that was because of my negligence of not maintaining it properly. I realize that from late 2012 to early 2013 Travel Lite experienced a heavy turnover ratio of qualified employees due to Management. In their haste to replace those workers that walked out on them they hired poorly qualified and unskilled laborers who didn't know what the hell they were doing and that is again Management's fault, thus producing shoddy campers and after five years it still sounds like they are putting out shoddy campers. After reading all of the negative comments on this post I don't think I would ever buy a Travel Lite again so I should be happy that mine is still holding up with no problems.
exhaustipated wrote:
I must be the only happy and satisfied owner of a Travel Lite 960RX truck camper on this Forum. Over the last six years I've had the camper since buying it new from a dealer in January of 2012, I have never had anything go wrong with it and everything works and it hasn't fallen apart. I did have to replace the roof a few years back but that was because of my negligence of not maintaining it properly. I realize that from late 2012 to early 2013 Travel Lite experienced a heavy turnover ratio of qualified employees due to Management. In their haste to replace those workers that walked out on them they hired poorly qualified and unskilled laborers who didn't know what the hell they were doing and that is again Management's fault, thus producing shoddy campers and after five years it still sounds like they are putting out shoddy campers. After reading all of the negative comments on this post I don't think I would ever buy a Travel Lite again so I should be happy that mine is still holding up with no problems.
Travels with Yoly wrote:pcaffrey wrote:
Yoly, Thank you for this post and I have read your others as well. I was looking at a few used travel light T/C due to pricing but don't want to get into a nightmare issue and don't have the resources to buy new. We have a 3/4 T truck and trying to get a feeling of weights. What did you get for a camper. Thank you.
We returned the Travel Lite 770R to the dealer in NC where we bought it. They understood our concerns with the 1/2 ton Ram 1500 and the weight of the TC. They took it back and basically refunded our money. Then we purchased the Rayzr FK from the same dealer for around $8,500. Two weeks later, we decided we couldn't live with the negative design traits of the Rayzr so we traded it in on the Adventurer 80RB. The dealer only gave us $6,500 for the Rayzr ($2,000 depreciation, or about 18% in 2 weeks) !! For what it's worth, if you have a 3/4 ton truck, the additional weight of the 770R probably wouldn't be a factor.
Travels with Yoly wrote:pcaffrey wrote:
Yoly, Thank you for this post and I have read your others as well. I was looking at a few used travel light T/C due to pricing but don't want to get into a nightmare issue and don't have the resources to buy new. We have a 3/4 T truck and trying to get a feeling of weights. What did you get for a camper. Thank you.
We returned the Travel Lite 770R to the dealer in NC where we bought it. They understood our concerns with the 1/2 ton Ram 1500 and the weight of the TC. They took it back and basically refunded our money. Then we purchased the Rayzr FK from the same dealer for around $8,500. Two weeks later, we decided we couldn't live with the negative design traits of the Rayzr so we traded it in on the Adventurer 80RB. The dealer only gave us $6,500 for the Rayzr ($2,000 depreciation, or about 18% in 2 weeks) !! For what it's worth, if you have a 3/4 ton truck, the additional weight of the 770R probably wouldn't be a factor.
pcaffrey wrote:
Yoly, Thank you for this post and I have read your others as well. I was looking at a few used travel light T/C due to pricing but don't want to get into a nightmare issue and don't have the resources to buy new. We have a 3/4 T truck and trying to get a feeling of weights. What did you get for a camper. Thank you.
pcaffrey wrote:
Yoly, Thank you for this post and I have read your others as well. I was looking at a few used travel light T/C due to pricing but don't want to get into a nightmare issue and don't have the resources to buy new. We have a 3/4 T truck and trying to get a feeling of weights. What did you get for a camper. Thank you.
