If you don't want to pull a trailer, I can see a slide in being nicer than a tent if you don't want to have to set anything up before calling it a day. Never had one, and the small size of them puts me off, but as much as I like to pack off into the wild with a solo tent, I also enjoy being able to drop stabilizers and chock or lock wheels in just a minute, ready to hit the sack when it's been a long and late day on the road.

 

Everything seems to have been said will not beat a dead horse. Did not read anything about tires. Would not L rated tires be a consideration if we are at the max and or then some as well? just saying.

 

Defiantly a stiffer tire would help with a top heavy camper. When I'm in a left turn lane and cars pass by at 50mph I can feel my empty truck rocking on the P tires.

 

LOL @ LT-L.

LT-E runs about 3300 to 4100lb load rating. If you really want to hate life, throw some LT-E 129's on 20" rims.

 

In my younger days I put Lance camper on a chevy 1500.

I have no idea what anything wieghed, but I had to add airsprings, rancho shocks, and a rear sway bar. I drove it from 93 until 2000.

it worked, but in retrospect, it was very foolish.
Now with more people on the roads and distracted at that, it just seems like your fighting the safety odds.

 

Glad we didn't have forums back when I was in my 20' or even 30's. Don't know how I made it out alive lol.

 

Few of us were regularly towing **** that weighs as much as the stuff we tow now. There are a thousand times more DIY'ers hauling pallets of brick and block and sand and whatnot than in the early 90's. In fact, it's the advent of forums that has fueled the massive expansion of DIY, making information much more accessible to the general public. Before then, you had to buy books or videos, or know a guy, to get the info you needed to take on projects that were not in your arena of expertise.