Truck Camper reviews

Awesome camper! Lightweight and fits 6’ beds. Simple floor plan, very roomy sleeping area with the queen bed. 3 way fridge is great, very cold and silent. The cookstove, sink and microwave are like new. It’s one of the only campers that fits a 6’ bed and still has a bathroom with toilet and shower. At 1768lbs it is doable with a 1/2 ton truck. I put airbag suspension on my Ford F150 for added stability. Show less

You would be better served to find an slightly older SS-550. Our price was only $10k for our 2016 model new and it has cabinets over the kitchen area, cabinets over the seating area and much more storage space. It has also better build quality. The 2020 to 2023 models are built much much cheaper quality and cost more than double in price. We like our 2016 SS 550 but would not purchase the 2023 even for $10k Show less

Small leak found, no help from Apex dealership or NL techs. Battery compartment needs a new design, impossible for us to change batteries. Love the R value, dry bath is huge. Outside storage isn’t there. Expensive but overall well designed, except for things l listed. Biggest problem is techs don’t want to help you, ANY! Show less

My wife and myself had bought the Truck Camper one year ago separately and put it together with a lot of investment and extras. We started our fulltime year-long trip heading north all the way to BC and back to AZ. The Camper kept us worm in the winter time and during the summer we hardly used the AC. We preferred to stay dispersed rather than an RV park. We were surprised to see how roomy and cozy was the camper consider it size without heavy slide outs with comfortable wide sleeping area. Parking in public lots, shopping areas was easy to maneuver and would fit regular spots. We kept it light and the truck did extremely well. The truck is a 2012 Ford 250 XLT, crew cab, super duty diesel 6.7 power stroke. The truck is well maintained and carried us with ease. I did have to invest in new shocks, brakes, sway bars and air bags. The sway bar was a very effective in deed. We are now concluded our memorable trip and waiting to sell our TC till next time. . Show less

I like everything about this 992 truck camper except the entrance to the bed isn't great for older people! It is good quality and has everything a larger rv has just in tighter quarters! Great to get off road with to stay in more out of the way areas! Show less

Lightweight camper that hauls well on a 2500 truck with a 6.5' box. Pros - Features a slide on the kitchen which makes for enough floor space for adults to pass each other. Has a bathroom with shower and toilet but no sink. Nice big single bowl kitchen sink which is roomy enough to wash dinner plates and pots. Ample overhead storage and 2 drawers with soft close in the kitchen. Comfortable dinette with a sturdy table and a overhead cabinet. Has 4 cu ft two way fridge which works well on propane. Fairly good quality construction. Cons - The bed is unfortunately a east/west configuration. Small closet. This unit does lack ample storage compared with comparable campers. Has a single 20 Lb propane tank which is a horizontal design which is expensive to replace. Battery is in a difficult place which requires removing the camper from the truck to access. No outside charge terminals or pre wired solar. No pre wiring for rear observation camera. Show less

I bought this camper new last June. Health issues intervened and I've decided to sell it. Inspecting it I discovered that the bathroom door had warped-- it was an inch out of line, causing the door to hit the trim at the corner and the latch did not hit the striker. I contacted the dealer and they said it would be covered under warranty, bring them the door and lots of pictures. I took pictures, removed the door and drove 2 hours to the dealership in my small truck (big truck was working out of state) to show them the door and pictures only to be told that the pictures had to be taken with THEIR camera. So I drove home with bad door. Haven't heard reply to my email to Palomino asking why my pics weren't acceptable. (Just having them ship me a replacement door would run about $200 according to the parts guy at the dealership; I'm a woodworker and would just make a better door if I were keeping it.) One other problem-- the support jacks are mounted to stick outside the body of the camper which means they block the sight lines of my Chevy 2500HD extendable rear-view mirrors. I was planning on moving the jacks (simple side-to-side swap) so they were inside the sight lines but I'm selling it because of my health. Show less

Bought our Host Mammoth new in 2016. It sits on a Chev 1 ton dually. Originally bought it so we could tow a boat, camp and fish. The floor plan and outside storage is excellent. Super livable. ‘basement’ storage gives plenty of room for fishing gear, lawn chairs, cases of water. No climbing into the front queen bed. It’s elevated to just sit down and roll in. . You do have to climb 4? stairs to enter from outside. Day we bought it, all the mini blinds fell out of the windows. After putting those back in- everything has been perfect. We store it inside, and nothing else has gone wrong. Make sure you have extra batteries to expand the tip outs. You cannot get in without putting those out first. They expand in about a minute. Took it on many 2 week trips- and a few 3 week trips. Finally, get the model with the bed facing the length of the camper, so you’re not crawling over your spouse in the middle of the night to get up. Totally the best. Show less

Where to start don’t buy a forest river product I said it you are reading it Nothing good here unless you love to spend money on a unit you can’t use had to fix myself I bought it new under warranty They built me a new roof that is the wrong colours and wrong Finnish for my camper inside and out ..to top it all off it does not fit Worse then the replaced roof.. and that’s why it was replaced They gave me a number to call at the factory but the line rings and when I leave a message they don’t call back ever emails kind get through but it’s not clear so waist your money here if your dollars have no value Show less