Truck camper on a flat bed

[ridinpreacher]

What are pros / cons of considering a nice flat bed dually; the flat beds that have the tool boxes mounted underneath the bed look like they could be very user friendly.

[gbsb]

I have a F450 Crew Cab Ford with a custom made Aluminum flatbed with diamond plate boxes under the bed and on top of the bed. I have a 990 Arctic Fox slide in camper installed and the rig works great

[Dog_Folks]

ridinpreacher wrote:
What are pros / cons of considering a nice flat bed dually; the flat beds that have the tool boxes mounted underneath the bed look like they could be very user friendly.

This was on here about a a week ago. You might have missed it.

Very cool looking one.

Flat Bed Truck Camper

[Sparky87k5]

805gregg wrote:
Flat beds are above the tires, where regular beds put the camper between the tires, so with a flat bed your center of gravity will be about 1' higher, how about a service bed

I've been looking at doing this with a new CM built flatbed model SK that has the boxes (2) on each side built right into it. My measurements indicate an 8" rise in camper from a stock pick up box. I'm still undecided if the $4500 price plus the $1000 install costs are worth it.

[ridinpreacher]

805gregg I've thought about a good looking service bed. I am finding that the biggest issue is the height of the sidewalls vary a lot. I am supposing you have to find one with that has a side wall height near that of the normal bed.

[KD4UPL]

I've got an aluminum flatbed on my '05 Chevy dually. It's 8' wide and 8' 9" long. I've got aluminum tool boxes mounted on the top and the bottom. The whole thing was custom built so my camper would fit. I couldn't find any stock beds that would work. The front and rear corners of the bed had to be cut on an angle to accommodate the jacks.
I had it built without the headache rack since I don't need that. I have 4 rings installed in the floor that flip up; that's what I attach my happijack turnbuckles too.
The storage is great but carrying all that stuff adds weight too.
The bed cost me about $6,000 plus around another $1,000 for installation.
I'm not that impressed with the build quality but the company was willing to custom build it so I had to take what I could get. If I had to do it over again I would buy a higher quality bed and then have it modified.
I use my truck for work and it is much more useful with the flatbed and tool boxes. The bed was a business expense so that's mainly how I can justify the cost. If I was just doing it for RV purposes I don't know that I could justify spending $7,000 to get some storage boxes.

[805gregg]

Flat beds are above the tires, where regular beds put the camper between the tires, so with a flat bed your center of gravity will be about 1' higher, how about a service bed