Using a trailer to mount your rooftop tent vs mounting on truck?

[Mike Clark]

Have any of you bought a small trailer to mount your tent on and store gear vs using your main truck? My wife wants me to look at this so we don't make our main truck less day to day driveable. Any thoughts?

 

[Crawler80]

In my opinion this is the best option. It does not way down your truck so it saves fuel and keeps the truck capable on the trails. You also do not have to drive around woth the tent on top all the time. I would definately go for it

 

[Mike Clark]

Thank you. Have you heard of Hiker Trailers?

 

[Frank Sullivan]

Thank you. Have you heard of Hiker Trailers?

They make a decent trailer for the money. The negative for me was the weight: https://www.hikertrailers.com/2022-eor for a small trailer, pushing over 2000lbs dry was a bit heavy. After I load up what I need, this could be pushing upwards of 2800 to 3000lbs. My search continues for something lighter.

 

[RiverRat]

Yep, a little bit on the heavy side. Schultz makes a good trailer too if you are after small trailer

 

[UtahOverland]

Great idea. Rooftop tents just sit on roofs without being used for the majority of time and all they do is add weight. When you have it on a trailer you only carry it around when you need it.

Furthermore, you can setup basecamp and hit the tough trails in the area again without having the weight and hight drawback of the rooftop tent

 

[Chris Vitiello]

Trailer all the way!

 

[Vincent Peri]

If you have on a trailer, then you can leave behind and not carry it around all the time

 

[Mike Clark]

Yeah we are sold on it, just going through the logistics right now.