Truck Camper - Newbie Needs Advice
Hello all-- Long time camper in pull trailers, 5th wheel, Class C and Class A. I did own a small overhead camper 30 years ago when I traveled Baja twice to Cabo and back. Used for those two trips...
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With 2000 lb camper limit you are not going to have many choices.
Look for 8 foot campers, or max 9 foot.
Start with reading your rear axle capacity and weighting it empty, so you know exact capacity for your rear.
Unlike car brands, there is not much difference in campers quality.
When Host seems to be leader - it only in big campers and bottom line is that all campers share the same appliances and there are only 2 manufacturers of camper jacks to my knowledge.
I used to own Lance and Fleetwood.
Fleetwood was having much more fancier controls and with aluminum frame beat Lance who had poor engineering.
Than I liked Lance finishes better.
Look for 8 foot campers, or max 9 foot.
Start with reading your rear axle capacity and weighting it empty, so you know exact capacity for your rear.
Unlike car brands, there is not much difference in campers quality.
When Host seems to be leader - it only in big campers and bottom line is that all campers share the same appliances and there are only 2 manufacturers of camper jacks to my knowledge.
I used to own Lance and Fleetwood.
Fleetwood was having much more fancier controls and with aluminum frame beat Lance who had poor engineering.
Than I liked Lance finishes better.
