Year: 2020

The truck camper is a great recreational vehicle. It allows you to go where other types of RVs can’t. Yet the one con bedeviling many campers is the lack of comfortable seating with most campers [read more]

Truck camper owners typically rely on several devices to keep their batteries charged and maintained. Aside from the standard 120 volt converter-charger or inverter-charger, these can include a DC solar charge controller and a DC-to-DC [read more]

The Bradshaw Trail. Most of us have heard about the Southern California Jeep trail, but few truck camper owners have explored it. When we first started researching this road in preparation for the 2020 Truck [read more]

We recently received this question regarding seat belt regulations and whether it’s safe for passengers to ride in truck campers while driving. Hi, Mike! I’m curious if you have any resources on the potential of [read more]

The lack of storage space has vexed truck camper owners for decades. The reason is obvious—the camper sits where camping gear and firewood are typically stored, in the bed of the truck. While many attempts [read more]

When it comes to truck camper construction, wood gets a bad rap. That’s too bad because when it comes to wood nothing is more beautiful. The key to wood construction, of course, is doing it [read more]

Looking for a terrific gift or a product to fill a specific truck camper adventure need? You’re in luck. Over the years we’ve been exposed to countless items and have tried out many, some good, [read more]

The truck camper industry has experienced a Renaissance lately with several companies starting-up. Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Bison Overland is one such company. In fact, the fledgling company just released an aluminum, flatbed pop-up called the Space [read more]

Two things we really like about the 2021 Ford F150: the payload and the power. The truck offers loads of both with an eye-popping 2,900-pound payload rating for the 5.0L V8 SuperCrew, and a brand-new [read more]

With great anticipation, NuCamp RV just announced the release of the all-new Cirrus 620, a lightweight, short-bed truck camper made specifically for half-ton trucks. The Ohio-based company says that the new short-bed camper will weigh [read more]

The year 2020 has been a crazy year with a worldwide pandemic, riots, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and flooding all taking place. With record numbers of RVs on the road due to the pandemic, it was [read more]

Unfortunately, it happened. Our Ram 3500 Cummins 6.7L truck went into the dreaded “limp mode” on a recent trip here in Arizona. The alarm on the dashboard read, “5 mph Max Speed in 100 mi, [read more]

It’s no secret that Northern Lite makes a very popular truck camper. The quality interiors plus the long-lasting, fiberglass shell makes Northern Lite campers a hot commodity. Northern Lite builds several short-bed and long-bed models [read more]

Our good friends at Four Wheel Campers (FWC), in conjunction with New Belgium Brewery, just announced the launch of an exciting five-episode video series devoted to capturing the Pop Up Life experience through the lens [read more]

Hellwig Suspension Products, an industry-leading manufacturer of towing, hauling, and performance suspension products, recently announced the release of its newest Pro Series and EZ-990 Helper Springs for the 2017–2020 Ford F-150 Raptor pickup truck. The [read more]

Looking for detailed guidance on how to get your truck camper ready for the summer? Or perhaps you’re looking for a quality preventative maintenance plan to keep everything in your camper operating in tip-top shape? [read more]

The entry step is one of the most important accessories you can get for your truck camper. Without a safe and effective way to get in and out of your camper, your $40,000 camper is [read more]

We recently installed Truck Systems Technologies’ popular TST-507-RV-4-C Tire Pressure Monitoring System in our truck. Sure, a good set of tires, like our Cooper Discoverer AT3-XLT’s, can go a long way toward providing peace-of-mind on [read more]

One of the things we love about this hobby is getting away. There’s no better way to do that than doing it in a truck camper. Another thing we love is that you can build [read more]

In the early fall of 2019 Four Wheel Campers (FWC) planned to open a Southern California store and service center in February 2020. Fast forward to February and the facility was ready for prime time. [read more]

Colorful leaves and dropping temperatures are a sign that fall is beginning, and Cooper Tire and Rubber Company encourages drivers to use the changing season as a reminder to check their tires and ensure they’re [read more]

Enrollment in the 2021 Truck Camper Adventure Rally is now open, but will close on February 5 for name tag processing. To date, over 160 campers and their owners have enrolled in what will probably [read more]

With a world-wide pandemic and all, 2020 has been crazy year and it’s not even over yet. In spite of all that’s happened, David and Jenney Kiel, like most of us, still have been able [read more]

Oregon-based EarthCruiser, a globally recognized leader in global expedition travel vehicles, just announced the release of the EarthCruiser Terranova, an all-season, cabover expedition camper built on a 4×4 Ford, Chevy or Ram domestic one-ton chassis. [read more]

The 2019 SEMA show in Las Vegas was one for the ages. It was probably the largest SEMA show ever and was the first to feature an Overland Experience area showcasing rigs of all types [read more]

Looking for detailed guidance on how to get your truck camper ready for the summer? Or perhaps you’re looking for a quality preventative maintenance plan to keep everything in your camper operating in tip-top shape? [read more]

Looking for a stabilization and storage product for your slide-in truck camper? You’ve come to the right place. This article reviews and ranks the best truck camper stability products in the market today. These products [read more]

BundutecUSA, quality maker of truck campers, portable trailers and roof-top tents, just released a new hard-side truck camper called the Roadrunner. With a dry weight of only 2,450 pounds, the camper is a perfect match [read more]

Suspension issues can really take the fun out of truck camping. These issues include sway, rear sag, porpoising, and jarring bumps from uneven roads. Unfortunately, correctly matching your camper with your truck—important as it is—doesn’t [read more]

Alright, guys, this is what you’ve been asking for. I’m finally going to give you a tour of our brand-new Bundutec Roadrunner. The Roadrunner is the brain child of BundutecUSA owner Rory Willett and has [read more]

Looking for some inspiration for a one-of-a-kind, chassis-mounted truck camper? Then you’ll love this custom rig built built by our friends at Phoenix Pop Up Campers. Affectionately called Crazy Build, this pop-up truck camper, owned [read more]

For road-weary RV travelers, Walmart has long been the unofficial oasis of the open road. Affectionately known as Wallydocking, it’s a beloved tradition: pull in, grab some snacks, catch a few hours of sleep, and [read more]

Death Valley is the largest national park in the contiguous United States encompassing 3,422,024 acres, and is the hottest, driest and lowest of all national parks in the United States. Approximately 93 percent of the [read more]

There’s no doubt about it. The flatbed truck camper is here to stay. Not only is the flatbed truck camper larger and more spacious than the standard slide-in truck camper, but it also offers more [read more]

Yakima, Washington-based Scout Campers, maker of lightweight, off-grid truck campers, launched its third and final model this week called the Kenai. Designed for today’s full-size, short-bed and long-bed trucks, the Kenai remains true to the [read more]

After spending over a week thoroughly testing every system in our brand-new Bundutec Roadrunner truck camper, it was time to finally take the CAT Scale challenge. Getting your rig weighed tells you a lot. The [read more]

It was long overdue. After billions worth of undone maintenance across the national park system and federally managed public lands, on August 4, 2020, President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law. The [read more]

They go by several names—truck bodies, flatbeds, service bodies, utility beds—but for today’s truck camper rig, they all do the same thing, increase storage, and in many cases, provide additional capability. Michael Nyholm of California [read more]

First impressions are everlasting. They say you can never change them. When we arrived in Raymond, Iowa to pick up our new Bundutec Roadrunner truck camper last week we were thrilled. We were like two [read more]

Truck camper owners spend a lot of time behind the wheel. Indeed, 10 hours a day on the road is pretty common. This amount of driving can be problematic to our backs and legs, since [read more]

Oregon-based SherpTek revealed a truck camper combo that created a big stir on social media recently. This mid-size rig, consisting of a stock 2019 Toyota Tacoma, a 2019 Kimbo 6 aluminum truck camper, and a [read more]

We’ve all heard the horror stories—RV awnings being damaged by heavy winds requiring hundreds of dollars to fix. This happened to Josh Fuss and Amy Rupp recently while boondocking in Idaho. On what had been [read more]

Big Bend National Park.  If you have been paying attention in the last few years, Big Bend keeps popping up as a National Park that you need to visit. We had read several blogs and [read more]

We recently received this question from Joe in Vermont about the alternator charging circuit in his Cirrus 800 truck camper: Hi Mike! We have a 2014 Ram 3500 and a 2016 Cirrus 800. While doing [read more]

Fifty-two-year-old Marine veteran Sean Silvera was stoked when he completed work on his truck camper build in January. He purchased the best suspension upgrades for his Ram 2500 that money could buy, installed an imported [read more]

Expion360 recently released a new 100 amp hour lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) group-31 battery called the VPR4Ever Classic. According to the Oregon-based company, the deep cycle battery will allow owners to charge faster, stay longer, [read more]

The Perfect Compromise Everything you need, nothing you don’t. For overland travel that sentence is key. The balance of weight versus necessity that establishes what is or is not going to make your vehicle work [read more]

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc with the US economy, yet the RV industry is one segment of the economy that appears to be untouched. In fact, with RV dealerships reporting record sales nationwide, the [read more]