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Nice! Just fish the camera out of the tailgate and attach it to the back edge of the camper - that's what I did. It might be a slight pain to get it free of the handle (in my case it was in the Ford emblem), but this way, it's guaranteed to work with your existing setup. I've never seen or read...

Nice! TC650's sure do look at-home on crew cab Super Duty's, don't they?

If you have both, load it up. If it's sitting on the bump stops with the camper, definitely not a good idea to drive it. It's gonna be overloaded with our without airbags (very few 1/2 tons could handle 1400 and be within GVWR), the airbags would just help it sit level and off the bump stops.

I would really like to like this, I spent quite a bit of time last year looking for a solution like this because I already have a really nice hitch mounted rack. If they don't post any prices, I bet it would be cheaper to just buy an actual swing-away rack from an existing, established company...

Well, it sure is black! :lol The camper's gonna look like it's floating on air. Enjoy the new year with it!

All the above - yikes! If it's the short short-bed double cab tacoma, your COG is going to be behind the rear axle. Even before worrying about total payload (I'm sure you'll be over by 500, if not 1000#), that alone would really worry me.

All the links in the OP are broken.

Hallmark make some very nice campers, for sure, but you pay for it. What's the lead time? From my reading, they're a lot like FWC - in other words, plan on waiting a while. For my money, the Northstar is hard to beat. There's even inventory that needs to be moved...

You have a 1-ton, it would be a shame not to make use of it and get the bigger/comfier Northstar! Not like I'm biased... very nice truck!

That sucks, sorry to hear. It's really a shame that both the factory and dealerships have moved so far away from custom ordering. It's not as easy as it should be, and your story is too common. At the risk of sounding obvious, try to locate one, even in another state, that's already on a lot...

20mpg with a truck camper?!!?!

ExpoMike: very nicely designed and built!

There's no way my wife and daughter would break camp to take me fishing in the morning! Yet another vote for: no, it's not that easy. Now that I have 2yrs of practice, I can do it in 15min on my driveway with one-arm behind my back, but I've never had the guts to do it at a campsite, even a...

Exactly. I leave it on, lowered. The TC650 isn't short enough to fit completely in the 6.6' F250 bed; I can't close the tailgate with it loaded. As for how it makes it "safer", when my daughter opens the camper door, on purpose or on accident, there's a tailgate there at basically the same level...

I'm very skeptical about this "sulastic" - never heard of it before today (and I've had a CDL for almost 20 years)

tailgate: we use ours as a "front porch" (and love it) - I have the built-in step as well, a nice feature. Combined, it makes camping with our toddler much safer. Of course, our TC doesn't have the wrap. insurance: it's not a vehicle, so no reg (isn't that the best part of a truck camper???)...

I've never seen a truck camper with hood-mounted machine guns... you might be on to something!

I run my F250 w/Michelin LTX at 45-50 when empty, 65 when loaded with camper. It definitely makes a difference. If you want to spend some money, you could install some adjustable dampers. Lots of folks in the TC world running Rancho RS9000XL, which you can set at 1 when empty, and 7-9 when...

Beamer Pilot's truck is a Crew. The Mega Cab is really easy to spot, it's got a good several extra inches of body behind the rear doors. It's obsceeeenely big, I've ridden in one. I don't know my Dodge's that well, but unless you're hauling 5 people regularly, I would pass since I assume it must...

Hey - sorry, I'm just seeing this now. Not sure why I didn't get an email notification... The 150 just had to work harder. It felt like it used a lot more space for braking, it needed a lot more air in the bags to bring it up to level, it bounced a lot more over bumps, and it moved around a...