Flatbeds

Dirt700 · Jun 19, 2021

Thinking about selling my f250, partially because the way the market is right now for trucks,And selling my enclosed trailer. Gonna take that money and buy a single axle semi or a medium duty truck like a freightliner m2 or international 4300, and put a flatbed to haul the buggy. Then find a descent bumper pull camper. If I go this route my wife is going to get a bigger SUV to pull the camper if we just want to go camping for the weekend or pull my car hauler trailer if I need to go to Lowes or something. I will eventually get another pickup just to have one

It's either that or try and find a descent older diesel pusher motorhome and keep my truck.

What's everyone's thoughts?

ridered3 · Jun 19, 2021

Dirt700 said:
Thinking about selling my f250, partially because the way the market is right now for trucks,And selling my enclosed trailer. Gonna take that money and buy a single axle semi or a medium duty truck like a freightliner m2 or international 4300, and put a flatbed to haul the buggy. Then find a descent bumper pull camper. If I go this route my wife is going to get a bigger SUV to pull the camper if we just want to go camping for the weekend or pull my car hauler trailer if I need to go to Lowes or something. I will eventually get another pickup just to have one

It's either that or try and find a descent older diesel pusher motorhome and keep my truck.

What's everyone's thoughts?

Truck market is insane indeed. Our 12' F250 books for more than we paid for it 2.5 years and 20k miles later.

I know the Crawler Hauler group on FaceSpace has several medium/heavy duty trucks with flatbeds and always gives me bad ideas/wants to spend money and buy one.

Speaking of bad ideas/wants check out Expediter Trucks. They'd have a decent sleeper area for longer trips and a box big enough to fit the buggy enclosed.

I also know if you go this route, get an air ride hitch for the camper or else you'll kill the hitch on the camper.

Markrobinson · Jun 19, 2021

ridered3 said:
Truck market is insane indeed. Our 12' F250 books for more than we paid for it 2.5 years and 20k miles later.

I know the Crawler Hauler group on FaceSpace has several medium/heavy duty trucks with flatbeds and always gives me bad ideas/wants to spend money and buy one.

Speaking of bad ideas/wants check out Expediter Trucks. They'd have a decent sleeper area for longer trips and a box big enough to fit the buggy enclosed.

I also know if you go this route, get an air ride hitch for the camper or else you'll kill the hitch on the camper.

That last line is great! I know myself and probably many others would not have considered that

ridered3 · Jun 19, 2021

Markrobinson said:
That last line is great! I know myself and probably many others would not have considered that

I didn't think about it either until I kinda looked into this route three trucks and three trailers ago (aka about 4 years ago).

Another topic, if you don't mind a road trip look at trucks in California. Thanks to their emission rules you can get a screaming deal on bigger trucks for pennies on the dollar.

money_pit_yj · Jun 21, 2021

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Cheap, pre emission, will haul anything and the right color..........

money_pit_yj · Jun 21, 2021

There is a 2003 Freightliner on Southern Farming classifieds group on FB that looks nice.

ridered3 said:
I also know if you go this route, get an air ride hitch for the camper or else you'll kill the hitch on the camper.

Just build the hitch as part of the bed then the truck suspension will absorb the blow.

ridered3 · Jun 21, 2021

money_pit_yj said:
There is a 2003 Freightliner on Southern Farming classifieds group on FB that looks nice.

Just build the hitch as part of the bed then the truck suspension will absorb the blow.

Guess I should have included in my original comment that I have no first hand experience with the medium/heavy duty trucks so solely going off of discussions on Pirate4x4 and Irate4x4 in the Tow Rigs sections of using medium/heavy duty trucks to haul bumper pull campers.

ridered3 · Jun 21, 2021

So after a weekend of thinking about it, what's your current thinking/plan?

Dirt700 · Jun 22, 2021

ridered3 said:
So after a weekend of thinking about it, what's your current thinking/plan?

Think I'm going to do camper and flatbed, if I can get everything sold. Sarah is really wanting a camper. So at minimum I want to sell the enclosed and find a descent used camper. Then try to sell my truck

ridered3 · Jun 22, 2021

Dirt700 said:
Think I'm going to do camper and flatbed, if I can get everything sold. Sarah is really wanting a camper. So at minimum I want to sell the enclosed and find a descent used camper. Then try to sell my truck

Sounds like a plan there.

ridered3 · Jun 22, 2021

You need this!

RARE 1978 Dodge Rollback - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle...

Very unique truck with a ton of money spent on it! Will need a tune up and brake work as it has been off the road for years, but runs/drives around the yard just fine. 440 engine, winch, custom SRT...

tampa.craigslist.org

money_pit_yj · Jun 22, 2021

Dirt700 said:
Think I'm going to do camper and flatbed, if I can get everything sold. Sarah is really wanting a camper. So at minimum I want to sell the enclosed and find a descent used camper. Then try to sell my truck

I've got a camper that I am fixing to sell. We just don't use it and my son is starting to wrestle all year so it looks likem we won't have much time off anyway.

Dirt700 · Jun 22, 2021

money_pit_yj said:
I've got a camper that I am fixing to sell. We just don't use it and my son is starting to wrestle all year so it looks likem we won't have much time off anyway.

What is it?

Dirt700 · Jun 22, 2021

ridered3 said:
You need this!

RARE 1978 Dodge Rollback - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle...

Very unique truck with a ton of money spent on it! Will need a tune up and brake work as it has been off the road for years, but runs/drives around the yard just fine. 440 engine, winch, custom SRT...

tampa.craigslist.org

Bet that is a gas hog

Chuck19 · Jun 22, 2021

Here is my rig now Justin

Dirt700 · Jun 22, 2021

Chuck19 said:
Here is my rig now Justin

I like it, 450-550s have got high too. Little semi is probably what I end up with. I think my truck is sold, still got to get my enclosed sold now

ridered3 · Jun 22, 2021

Dirt700 said:
Bet that is a gas hog

True but it's cool so worth it

ToledoDan · Jun 23, 2021

@Chuck19 Dang! That is a nice set-up!
How long is the flatbed?

money_pit_yj · Jun 23, 2021

2007 Jayco GreyHawk 31SS

We are selling our 2008 Jayco Greyhawk 31SS. It is on a 2007 Ford E450 chassis with a v10 and has 31,000 miles (Chassis book says 2007 and Camper book says 2008). We have owned it for a year and have had a blast with it. We have two young boys so we spend very little time inside and need space...

www.hardlinecrawlers.com

@Dirt700
We have been using it since then. Nothing wrong with it at all, we just do not use it as much now that my boys are getting bigger. $36,500 was above loan value last year (I priced it cheaper than the other 10 of these that were for sale, I just never tried to sell it other than here or Marketplace) so it didn't sell. I will take $35,900 now. That is close to loan value.

Dirt700 · Jun 23, 2021

money_pit_yj said:
2007 Jayco GreyHawk 31SS

We are selling our 2008 Jayco Greyhawk 31SS. It is on a 2007 Ford E450 chassis with a v10 and has 31,000 miles (Chassis book says 2007 and Camper book says 2008). We have owned it for a year and have had a blast with it. We have two young boys so we spend very little time inside and need space...

www.hardlinecrawlers.com

@Dirt700
We have been using it since then. Nothing wrong with it at all, we just do not use it as much now that my boys are getting bigger. $36,500 was above loan value last year (I priced it cheaper than the other 10 of these that were for sale, I just never tried to sell it other than here or Marketplace) so it didn't sell. I will take $35,900 now. That is close to loan value.

I'm looking for a bumper, but that's a nice one