Remember, you saw this comprehensive, well-researched list here first, well before Internet copycats with nearly identical lists publish theirs. Fortunately, truck camper manufacturers know this and have done their homework by building a wide variety of campers that are both lightweight and capable. Many half-ton truck owners have already paid-off their trucks and donвЂ™t want to invest in something bigger, heavier, and more expensive. Truth be told, when it comes to hauling a truck camper, we actually recommend doing it with a more capable one-ton truck, but this isnвЂ™t always practical.

In this article, we rank the 8 best truck campers for half-ton F150-1500 trucks. Still, todayвЂ™s half-ton trucks have fairly decent payload ratings, if you get the right options. To get anything around a 3,200-pound payload, youвЂ™ll need to get a Ford F150 long-bed, single cab pickup, one of the ugliest trucks in the market. Sure, you might find an F150 4Г—4 with a payload rating around 2,800 pounds, but those are few and far between. In fact, if you were to look at the payload ratings for todayвЂ™s Ford F150, Ram 1500, Toyota Tundra, Nissan Frontier, and GMC Sierra 1500 and Chevy Silverado 1500 short-bed trucks, most would fall under 2,100 pounds. Why? Because most half-ton pickup trucks lack the requisite payload to haul a hard-side truck camper. Of all the questions we get, the most commonly asked is can my half-ton pickup truck haul a hard-side truck camper with a wet bath? Most of the time we tell them, no. Wrapped Lance 650 mounted on a Nissan Frontier.

Camper shell for ram 1500 with rambox